Contract Specialist - FSP dedicated - Germany

ThermoFisher Scientific; Deu; Hybrid; EUR 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Annual incentive plan

Employee benefits

Job summary

Thermo Fisher Scientific is seeking a Site Contract Specialist to draft, review and finalize agreements with study sites. You will negotiate terms within established parameters and ensure alignment with budgets and processes.

You will collaborate with internal departments to manage site startup activities and achieve timely activations while minimizing contractual risk. A strong background in contract law and excellent English communication are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification.
• 2–5 years’ experience or equivalent combination of education, training, & experience.
• Understanding of the principles of contract law and negotiation.
• Proficient in documenting and communicating contractual terms clearly.

Responsibilities

• 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 and contract terms.
• Ensures compliance to established negotiation parameters, authority approval and client expectations.
• Ensures compliance of budgetary guidance, templates and process.
• Identifies and assesses legal, financial and operational risks and escalates appropriately.
• Coordinates with internal departments to align site startup and contractual activities.
• Achieve target cycle times for site activations.

Skills

Contract law basics

Negotiation

English communication

Drafting contracts

Attention to detail

Analytical thinking

Teamwork

MS Office

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

2–5 years’ experience or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Outlook

Excel

Word

Job description

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

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 determined teams combine and deliver startup activities for the clinical trials, collaborating to improve processes, cycle and flexibility. We partner with our sites, businesses and colleagues around the world to decrease startup timelines and go above and beyond.

Discover Impactful Work:

As a Site Contract Specialist, you will prepare and negotiate contracts, as well as, finalize the contract process.

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 per company contractual considerations, client contractual considerations, established process with sites and follows established escalation routes
• Ensures compliance to established negotiation parameters, authority approval, contractual process and client expectations
• Ensures compliance of budgetary guidance, templates and process
• Identifies and assesses legal, financial and operational risks and brings up to appropriate level of the organization per established processes
• Provides recommendations and alternative resolutions to Investigator Contract negotiations through established escalation channels
• Coordinates with internal functional departments to ensure various site startup activities are aligned with contractual activities and mutually agreed up timelines;
• Achieve target cycle times for site activations

Keys to Success:

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 2-5 years’) or equivalent combination of education, training, & experience.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Understanding of the 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
• Proven ability to apply basic principles of investigator grant negotiation
• Effective interpersonal skills (verbal and written) in English and in language spoken at local place of work
• Capable, with appropriate oversight, of drafting and negotiating contract provisions and budgetary issues within parameters
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent analytical and decision based thinking
• Understanding of the pharmaceutical product development process and involvement of CROs
• Able to work independently or in a team environment
• Good organizational and time management skills
• Able to organize competing priorities logically and review outstanding contractual risk and issues
• Able to effectively use automated systems and computerized applications, such as, Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, etc.
• Ability to demonstrate a problem solving and teamwork skills

Benefits

• We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits.

Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.