Senior Contract Specialist

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🌲 North Carolina – Remote

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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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

• Prepare, 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 • Recommend alternative resolutions for Investigator Contracts negotiations • Coordinate with internal functional departments on site startup activities and contractual timelines • Align contract negotiations with the critical path for site activation • Achieve target cycle times for site activations • Track and report activities as required • Train and mentor junior staff • Participate in country process improvement initiatives and country team meetings • Act as country subject matter expert for Investigator Contracts training materials • Liaise with Global Site Contracts to ensure compliance with global processes and corporate directives • Complete periodic quality reviews and peer feedback reports • Lead amendment/novation client projects and oversee confidentiality agreement negotiations when required

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification • 5+ years of comparable experience • Combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience may be considered as an equivalency • Detailed understanding of contract law, including business, intellectual property, local tax and stamp laws • Effective verbal and written communication skills in English and local language • Ability to negotiate investigator grant budgets within negotiation parameters • Strong attention to detail • Excellent analytical and decision-based thinking skills • Knowledge of pharmaceutical product development and CRO involvement • Ability to work independently or in a team environment • 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 train and mentor staff independently • Ability to provide feedback to Investigator Analysts • Strong problem-solving and risk-analysis skills • Ability to negotiate Investigator Contracts in the best interests of the company and client • Ability to work upright and/or stationary for 6–8 hours per day • Ability to perform repetitive hand movements • Frequent mobility; occasional crouching, stooping, bending and twisting • Ability to lift and carry 15–20 lbs. • Regular and consistent attendance

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement • Global team environment • Collaboration and development opportunities