Start-up Team Specialist

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.

Summarized Purpose: 

Completes site activation or amendment deliverables within the assigned projects and ensures all project deliverables meet customer expectations, as well as, contracted deliverables by providing accurate projections, report updates, and ongoing risk assessments.

Essential Functions and Other Job Information: 

Essential Functions• Collaborates with multiple team members in a matrix environment for the effective delivery of site activation or amendments within assigned projects. • Assists with coordination of the flow of information between internal teams, clients, or functional departments involved in site activation or amendments. • Participates in developing plans/guidelines for project implementation. • Monitors and analyzes project status to ensure successful progress and completion of all assigned projects and provides metrics and status updates to senior team members and/or upper management. • Performs risk identification and contingency planning. • Collaborates with team members to manage financial and contractual aspects of the studies related to site activation or amendments. • Participates in establishing appropriate controls to ensure that project resources and expenses are aligned with budgets.

Job Complexity

Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of a variety of factors.

Job Knowledge

Developing professional expertise, applies company policies and procedures to resolve a variety of issues.

Supervision ReceivedNormally receives general instructions on routine work, detailed instructions on new projects or assignments. Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.

Business RelationshipsContacts are primarily internal to the company with infrequent external customer /vendor contact on routine matters. Builds productive internal / external working relationships.

Qualifications: 

Education and Experience: Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualificationPrevious experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 2+ years).

In some cases an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role. 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: • Able to work well and efficiently with cross-functional teams• Organizational and communication skills• Attention to detail relevant to driving colleagues to achieve broader study deliverables• Ability to identify risks related to contractual deliverables and review potential solutions• Demonstrates basic understanding of cross-cultural awareness and is able to adapt appropriately• Basic understanding and appreciation of clinical research/ development, including medical and therapeutic areas, phases and medical terminology• Ability to lead, liaise and coordinate activities as part of a cross-functional project team• Firm knowledge/understanding of clinical development guidelines and directives

Management Role:No management responsibility

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. 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.

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