Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions
Office

Job Description

Site Contract Specialist

Are you a highly motivated individual with a passion for clinical trials? Do you thrive in a collaborative environment, where your work can have a significant impact on scientific advancements? If so, we have an outstanding opportunity for you!

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is seeking a Site Contract Specialist (CS) to join our outstanding Nordic team. As a clinical trial start-up role, you will exhibit work behaviors that contribute to accelerating research, solving complex project challenges, and driving innovation. This is your chance to join a company that values diversity and actively cultivates an inclusive culture.

• Drafts, reviews, negotiates and finalizes contracts with study sites according to local/accepted process.
• Negotiates investigator grant budgets and contractual terms and conditions within approved parameters, while considering contractual aspects and following established routes for resolution.
• Ensures compliance of budgetary guidance, templates and process.
• Identifies and evaluates potential legal, financial, and operational risks and reports them to the relevant parties.
• Offers suggestions and different approaches for resolving Investigator Contracts negotiations through established communication channels.
• Coordinates with internal functional departments to ensure various site startup activities are aligned with contractual activities and mutually agreed upon timelines; ensures alignment of contract negotiation process for sites and study are accurately aligned to the critical path for site activation.
• Deliver to time and quality.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
• Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job.
• Good 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.
• Ability to apply basic principles of investigator grant negotiation.
• General understanding of business and financial principles that related to service agreements.
• Effective communication skills (verbal and written) in English and in local language.
• 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 customer focused style of communication, problem solving and collaboration.