Site Contract Specialist (experience in Clinical Research environment required)

Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

Our goal-driven teams combine and deliver start-up activities for the clinical trials, collaborating to improve processes, cycle and flexibility. We partner with our sites, businesses and colleagues around the world to decrease start-up timelines and exceed expectations. 

We are currently looking to attract a Site Contract Specialist to join our Start-up team and be home-based in Switzerland. You will prepare and negotiate contracts, as well as finalise the contract process with study sites.

As a Site Contract Specialist you will:

• Draft, review, negotiate and finalizes agreements with study sites
• Negotiate investigator grant budgets and contractual terms and conditions, within the established parameters, authority approvals, contractual processes and client expectations
• Ensure compliance of budgetary guidance, templates and processes
• Identify legal, financial and operational risks and escalates as required
• Provide recommendations and alternative resolutions to Investigator Contracts negotiations
• Work with internal departments to ensure various site start-up activities and contractual activities are properly aligned
• Achieve target cycle times for site activations.
• Ensure guidelines and processes are followed for efficient escalation of out of parameter issues

To be considered for the role of a Site Contract Specialist you will have the following:

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification.
• Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job or equivalent combination of education, training, & experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Previous experience in Clinical Research environment (CRO or study site)
• Good understanding of the principles of contract law, including a general understanding of laws that influence contract language, such as business, intellectual property and local tax and stamp laws
• Demonstrated ability to apply basic principles of investigator grant negotiation
• General understanding of business and financial principles that are related to service agreements
• Capable of drafting and negotiating contract provisions and budgetary issues within parameters
• High attention to detail, good organizational and prioritisation skills
• Excellent analytical and decision-based thinking skills
• Understanding of the pharmaceutical product development process and involvement of CROs
• Able to effectively use automated systems and computerized applications
• Good communication skills, focussed on customer service and collaboration
• Fluent knowledge of German, French and English. Additionally, fluent knowledge of Italian will be considered as an advantage

As well as being rewarded a competitive salary, we have an extensive benefits package based around the health and well-being of our employees. We have a flexible working culture, where PPD truly values a work-life balance. We’ve grown sustainably year on year but continue to offer a collaborative environment, with teams of colleagues eager to share expertise and have fun together.

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values- Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory with PPD, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued. Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

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