Job Description

Employment Type: Full-time Work Schedule: Standard (Mon-Fri) Environmental Conditions: Office

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.

Our PPD® Laboratory Services team has a direct impact on improving patient health through the expertise of scientists, industry thought-leaders and therapeutic experts. As the world leader in serving science, our laboratory professionals bring their commitment to accuracy and quality to deliver groundbreaking innovations.

Discover Impactful Work

Coordinates and manages clinical trials from start up through close out activities for the Global Central Labs and is accountable for overall project performance and client’s satisfaction by meeting their needs and expectations through the life cycle of the assigned clinical trials. We are currently hiring for Associate Project Manager - Labs (Level I) and Project Manager - Labs (Level II).

A Day in the Life

• Provides oversight and coordination of study initiation.
• Reviews, interprets, translates and programs study protocols into a complete and accurate database.
• Communicates with internal departments and external vendors and ensure the project requirements are understood, agreed and followed at all times.
• Facilitates the flow of technical and clinical laboratory information to all stakeholders (investigational sites, sponsors, and non-technical personnel).
• Consults and utilizes, where appropriate, the scientific input of laboratory management and technical staff to assist the client with management of the clinical trial.
• Prepares the study specifications documents and follows the preparation according to budgets and contracts.
• Maintains at all times an updated study master file with version controls for specs, budgets and contracts.
• Ensures sponsors have authorized and signed off most recent versions of all docs and that a contract exists prior to deliver any services.
• Assures compliance with FDA and Good Clinical Practice guidelines, PPD SOP’s, personnel policies and procedures, PPD Exposure Control Plan, IATA, and other regulations regarding the transport of biological specimens.
• During initial review of protocol, consults with internal groups and support staff regarding procedural and budgetary items and the necessity for change due to any subsequent protocol amendments.
• Obtains other functions’ commitment to close gaps and address issues timely and effectively.
• Serves as chief liaison between sponsor and all PPD internal departments performing the required tasks during all study phases.
• Educates Investigator sites by delivering a protocol specific lab procedures presentation and demonstration during an investigator meeting.
• Controls, manages and follows day to day activities during the course of the clinical trial to resolve any issues and answer queries.
• Actively consults with IT and data management development groups in the design, validation and implementation of new software and functionalities pertinent to project management activities.
• Consults with BD and finance staff during initial project documentation review on standard services and costs, supporting RFP feasibility assessments.
• Advises on possible solutions if needed.
• Drafts responses for proposals.
• Guides a

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