Associate Contract Manager - Clinical Trials

Job Description

Join Us as a Contract Manager – Make an Impact at the Forefront of Innovation

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.

We have successfully supported the top 50 pharmaceutical companies and more than 750 biotechs, spanning 2,700 clinical trials across 100+ countries in the last 5 years.

The Associate Contract Manager serves as a regional lead in managing the preparation, negotiation and finalization of contract templates, process and negotiation parameters (including, contractual terms and conditions, and ancillary documents), and oversight of associated investigator grant budget(s), with an assigned workload of clients. Ensures quality, objectivity and risk analysis in the efficient delivery of contract templates, process and negotiation parameters. teams and Contract Specialists as directed by Contract Managers.

What You'll Do

• Lead the review, negotiation, and finalization of contract templates, process and

negotiation parameters with clients in accordance with PPD contractual

considerations and processes.

• Provide regional oversight and contractual risk assessment in accordance with

established contractual considerations, and serve as the liaison with the legal

department during country process improvement initiatives.

• Negotiate within approved parameters contractual terms and conditions in accordance with

company contractual considerations, client contractual considerations,

established process with clients and follows established escalation routes.

• Communicate, train and provide approved contract templates, process and

negotiation parameters and client expectations to assigned team members.

• Ensure collaboration, quality alignment with terms and conditions, process and

client expectations with assigned team members.

• Identify and assess legal, financial and operational risks in accordance with

approved PPD and client contractual considerations.

• Act 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.

• Provide recommendations and alternative resolutions to contract negotiations to

internal and external clients.

• Work with internal functional departments to facilitate coordination of different

site startup activities impacted by contractual activities upon mutually agreed

upon timelines.

• Contribute to or may lead change initiatives within the department.
• Complete periodic quality reviews and peer feedback reports.
• Create and deliver training material to team members.
• Provide training and mentoring to junior staff.

Education and Experience Requirements

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