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.

Location/Division Specific Information

Our global Clinical Operations colleagues within our PPD® clinical research services provide end-to-end support for clinical trials from study start up to monitoring through to study close out, across commercial and government contracts. Together, we help clients define and develop clinical programs, minimize delays, and execute high-quality, cost-efficient clinical studies.

Discover Impactful Work:

• Leads the preparation, negotiation and finalization of contracts process with an assigned workload of sites.
• Liaises and establishes effective relationships with clients and internal functional teams, as directed by leadership.
• Ensures quality, objectivity and risk analysis in the efficient delivery of contract templates, process and negotiation parameters.
• Serves as lead for internal and external clients.

A Day in the Life:

• Drafts, reviews, negotiates and finalizes agreements with study sites in accordance with local/accepted process.
• Negotiates within approved parameters both investigator grant budget negotiation parameters, contractual terms and conditions in accordance with company contractual considerations, client contractual considerations, established process with sites and follows established escalation routes.
• Communicates, trains and provides approved contract templates, process and negotiation parameters and client expectations to assigned teams.
• Ensures collaboration, quality alignment with terms and conditions, process and client expectations with assigned team members.
• Identifies and assesses legal, financial and operational risks in accordance with approved company and client contractual considerations.
• Acts as a lead regional interface and escalation contact with external clients for term & condition revisions outside of approved negotiation parameters, client expectations and process deviations.
• Provides recommendations and alternative resolutions contracts negotiations to internal and external clients.
• Works with internal functional departments to facilitate coordination of different site startup activities impacted by contractual activities upon mutually agreed upon timelines.
• Completes tracking and reporting as required.
• Contributes to change initiatives within the department.
• Completes periodic quality reviews and peer feedback reports.
• May assist with training material preparation or delivery of training to team members.

Keys to Success:

Education

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification

Experience

• 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, Abilities

• Demonstrated understanding of regional principles of contract law, including a general understanding of laws that influence contract language, such as business, intellectu