Site Contract 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.

Location/Division Specific Information

We are vital links between an idea for a new medicine and the people who need it. We are thousands of employees in locations worldwide connected by tenacity and passion for our purpose: to improve health.

You will be joining a truly collaborative and winning culture as we strive to bend the time and cost curve of delivering lifesaving therapies to patients.

Our global Clinical department consists of colleagues with institutional knowledge, in-depth therapeutic experience, and robust operational tools. Together, we help clients define and develop clinical programs, minimize delays and implement high-quality, cost-efficient clinical studies.

Discover Impactful Work:

As a Site Contract Specialist, you will prepare and negotiate contracts, as well as, finalize the contract process.

We hire the best, develop ourselves and each other, and recognize the power of being one team. We offer continued career advancement opportunities, training and benefits focused on the health and wellbeing of our employees.

A day in the Life:

• Drafts, reviews, negotiates and finalizes agreements with study sites in accordance with local/accepted.
• Negotiates within approved parameters both investigator grant budget negotiation parameters, contractual terms and conditions in accordance with company and client contractual considerations; established process with sites and follows established escalation routes.
• Ensures compliance to established negotiation parameters, authority approval, contractual process and client expectations.
• Ensures compliance of budgetary guidance, templates and process.
• Identifies and assesses legal, financial and operational risks and escalates to appropriate level of the organization per established processes.
• Provides recommendations and alternative resolutions to Investigator Contract negotiations through established escalation channels.
• Coordinates with internal functional departments to ensure various site startup activities are aligned with contractual activities and mutually agreed up timelines; ensure alignment of contract negotiation process for sites and study are properly aligned to the critical path for site activation.
• Achieve target cycle times for site activations
•  Ensures guidelines and processes are followed for efficient escalation of out of parameter issues as appropriate.

Keys to Success:

Education

Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 2-5 years’) or equivalent combination of education, training, & experience.

Experience

Years of experience refers to typical years of related experience needed to gain the required knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to perform the essential functions of the job. Years of experience are not to be used as the only determining factor in establishing the job class or making employment selection decisions.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• 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 related to service agreements.
• Effective communication skills (verbal and written) in English and in language spoken at local place of work.
• Capable, with appropriate oversight, of drafting and negotiating contract provisions and budgetary issues within parameters.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Excellent analytical and decision based thinking.
• Understanding of the pharmaceutical product development process and involvement of CROs.
• Able to work independently or in teams.
• Good organizational and time management skills.
• Able to organize priorities logically and review outstanding contractual risk and issues.
• Able to effectively use automated systems and computerized applications, such as, Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, etc.
• Ability to demonstrate a customer focused style of communication, problem solving and collaboration.

Physical Requirements / Work Environment

We value the health and wellbeing of our employees. We support and encourage individuals to create a healthy and balanced environment where they can thrive. Below is listed the working environment/requirements for this role:

Able to communicate, receive, and understand information and ideas with diverse groups of people in a comprehensible and reasonable manner.

Able to work upright and stationary and/or standing for typical working hours

Able to lift and move objects up to 25 pounds.

Able to use and learn standard office equipment and technology with proficiency

Able to perform successfully under pressure while prioritizing.

Benefits

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!

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.

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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