Job Description: Investigator Grant Specialist

Employment Type: Full-time Work Schedule: Standard (Mon-Fri) Environmental Conditions: Office Location Type: Fully Remote (United States of America) Salary: Not Specified

Position Overview

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

Prepares, reviews, and finalizes global investigator grant budget and payment schedule terms and conditions templates for multiple studies. Develops investigator grant budget negotiation parameters with clients, communicates client processes, procedures, and negotiation parameters to local team members. Liaises and establishes relationships with clients and internal PPD functional teams and Contract Specialists as directed by Contract Managers.

Essential Functions

• Assists in the development of investigator grant budget grids for applicable countries in assigned studies, inclusive of coordination with therapeutic and operational subject matter experts, as appropriate, to ensure proper grant development.
• Drafts applicable payment terms and condition templates for investigator grant budget grids.
• Coordinates internal/external approvals and feedback to investigator grant budget grids and payment schedules.
• Provides support for escalations with external clients for investigator budget development, process, and negotiation parameters.
• Provides approved investigator grant grids and payment schedules, process, and negotiation parameters to local teams.
• Coordinates with internal departments to ensure various site startup activities are aligned with investigator grant activities and mutually agreed-upon timelines; ensures alignment of investigator budget negotiation process for sites and study are properly aligned to the critical path for site activation.
• Adheres to PPD’s target cycle times for site activations.
• Completes tracking and reporting as required.

Job Complexity

Works on problems of limited scope. Follows standard practices and procedures in analyzing situations or data from which answers can be readily obtained.

Job Knowledge

Learns to use professional concepts. Applies company policies and procedures to resolve routine issues.

Supervision Received

Normally receives detailed instructions on all work.

Business Relationships

Contacts are primarily with the immediate supervisor and other personnel in the department. Builds stable working relationships internally.

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 0 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

• Basic understanding of the principles of investigator grant template drafting.
• Capable of reviewing and analyzing a protocol schedule of events to draft applicable budget grid and payment schedules therefrom.
• Basic understanding of the pharmaceutical product development process and involvement of CROs.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Good attention to detail.