Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
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.
Are you a highly motivated individual with a passion for clinical trials? Do you thrive in a collaborative environment, where your work can have a significant impact on scientific advancements? If so, we have an outstanding opportunity for you!
Job Responsibilities:
- Drafts, reviews, negotiates and finalizes contracts with study sites according to local/accepted process.
- Negotiates investigator grant budgets and contractual terms and conditions within approved parameters, while considering contractual aspects and following established routes for resolution.
- Ensures compliance of budgetary guidance, templates and process.
- Identifies and evaluates potential legal, financial, and operational risks and reports them to the relevant parties.
- Offers suggestions and different approaches for resolving Investigator Contracts negotiations through established communication channels.
- Coordinates with internal functional departments to ensure various site startup activities are aligned with contractual activities and mutually agreed upon timelines; ensures alignment of contract negotiation process for sites and study are accurately aligned to the critical path for site activation.
- Deliver to time and quality.
Job Knowledge:
Administers and executes policies, processes, and procedures that affect subordinate employees and the workflow of the unit. Requires full knowledge of own area of functional responsibility.
Supervision Received:
Directly supervises individual contributors, administrative support and / or entry-level professionals.
Business Relationships:
Assignments are task or activity oriented. Work is reviewed for soundness of judgment and overall quality and efficiency. A portion of the time may be spent performing individual tasks.
Qualifications:
Education and 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 (comparable to 8+ 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:
- Demonstrated understanding of regional 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, contractual and financial principles that related to service agreements
- Effective communication skills (verbal & written) in English and in language spoken at your local place of work
- Capable of drafting and negotiating contract provisions and budgetary issues within parameters
- Demonstrated ability to attention to detail
- Excellent analytical and decision based thinking skills
- Demonstrated depth of knowledge and expertise in clinical drug development and trial process, attained within the pharmaceutical and/or CRO industry
- Able to work independently or in a team environment
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Working knowledge of PPD SOP & WPDs
- Able to organize competing priorities logically and review outstanding contractual risk and issues
- Ability to demonstrate a customer focused style of communication, problem solving and collaboration
- Able to effectively use automated systems and computer applications
- Flexible and able to multitask and prioritize competing demands/workload
Management Role: No management responsibility
Working Conditions and Environment:
- Work is performed in an office/ laboratory and/or a clinical environment.
- Exposure to biological fluids with potential exposure to infectious organisms.
- Exposure to electrical office equipment.
- Personal protective equipment required such as protective eyewear, garments and gloves.
Physical Requirements:
- Ability to work in an upright and /or stationary position for 6-8 hours per day.
- Repetitive hand movement of both hands with the ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
- Frequent mobility required.
- Occasional crouching, stooping, with frequent bending and twisting of upper body and neck.
- Light to moderate lifting and carrying (or otherwise moves) objects including luggage and laptop computer with a maximum lift of 15-20 lbs.
- Ability to access and use a variety of computer software developed both in-house and off-the-shelf.
- Ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand; with the ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Frequently interacts with others to obtain or relate information to diverse groups.
- Performs a wide range of variable tasks as dictated by variable demands and changing conditions with little predictability as to the occurrence. Ability to perform under stress. Ability to multi-task.
- Regular and consistent attendance.
Accessibility/Disability Access
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
EEO & Affirmative Action
Thermo Fisher Scientific is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, religion, color, national or ethnic origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, genetic information, veteran status, age or disability status.
