FSP Contract Specialist

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🌲 North Carolina – Remote

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🟡 Mid-level

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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1956

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Healthcare • Logistics • Manufacturing

Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of more than $40 billion. Their mission is to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer by supporting life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing laboratory productivity, and improving patient health through diagnostics and the development of life-changing therapies. With a global team, they offer innovative technologies and pharmaceutical services through brands such as Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon, and PPD.

📋 Description

• Draft, review, negotiate, and finalize agreements with study sites • Negotiate investigator grant budgets, contractual terms, and conditions within approved parameters • Ensure compliance with negotiation parameters, approvals, contractual processes, budgetary guidance, templates, and client expectations • Identify and assess legal, financial, and operational risks and escalate issues appropriately • Provide recommendations and alternative resolutions for investigator contract negotiations • Coordinate with internal functional departments to align site startup and contractual activities with agreed timelines • Align contract negotiations with the critical path for site activation • Achieve target cycle times for site activations • Escalate out-of-parameter issues according to established guidelines and processes • Liaise with study sites and internal functional teams to establish effective relationships

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification • 2-5 years of previous relevant experience (comparable to the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for the job) • Equivalency may consist of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience • Good understanding of contract law, including business, intellectual property, local tax and stamp laws • Ability to apply basic principles of investigator grant negotiation • General understanding of business and financial principles related to service agreements • Effective communication skills in English and the local language • Ability to draft and negotiate contract provisions and budgetary issues within parameters, with appropriate oversight • Attention to detail • Excellent analytical and decision-based thinking skills • Understanding of pharmaceutical product development and CRO involvement • Ability to work independently or in a team environment • Good organizational and time management skills • Working knowledge of PPD SOPs and WPDs • Ability to organize competing priorities and review contractual risks and issues • Ability to use automated systems and computerized applications • Customer-focused communication, problem solving, and collaboration skills • Ability to work upright and/or stationary for 6-8 hours per day • Ability to perform repetitive hand movements and frequent mobility • Ability to occasionally crouch, stoop, bend, and twist • Ability to lift and carry 15-20 lbs. • Ability to access and use computer software • Ability to communicate and understand spoken and written information • Regular and consistent attendance • Ability to perform under stress and multitask

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement • Standard Monday-Friday work schedule