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The Sr Amendment Implementation Specialist Completes amendment activities within the assigned projects and ensures amendment deliverables meet customer expectations, as well as contracted milestones by providing accurate projections, report updates, and ongoing risk assessments
A day in the Life:
- Supports the amendment implementation strategy at country and site levels
- Understands amendment scope, classification, timelines, and whether participant safety is affected
- Oversees requests of country resources in Clarity
- Collaborates with the project team on amendment planning
- Discusses financial coverage for the amendment with the Project Lead
- Tracks amendment related actions and facilitates updates within applicable system(s)
- Schedules and conducts progress check calls with local teams
- Updates Principal Investigator Amendment Notification and Implementation Letters
- Liaises with the Regulatory Affairs Lead and project team to assess amendment submission requirements and country submission timelines
- Updates forecasting and actuals for amendment related units according to Clarity monthly deadlines
- Informs project team members when amendment activities have been completed
- Performs risk identification and contingency planning pertaining to amendments
- Introduction of roles and responsibilities to local team
- Request access to study related systems
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 2+ years)
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
- Very good understanding of PSC tasks, applicable PSCs' and other manuals, eTMF and File Review processes, client-specific manuals, procedures and requirements
- Audit/inspection process awareness with relevant rules and guidance documents
- Expert knowledge of an application (e.g. Excel), system or process
- Good organizational skills and strong attention to detail, with proven ability to handle multiple tasks efficiently and effectively
- Ability to effectively analyze project-specific data/systems to ensure accuracy and efficiency
- Analytical skills, ability to comprehend and analyze data, tables, etc.
- Strong customer focus
- Flexibility to reprioritize workload to meet changing project timelines
- Knowledge of ICH GCP, strong comprehension of applicable SOPs, good understanding of a clinical trial life cycle
- Advanced English (verbal & written)
- Good computer skills, proficient in several MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point) and ability to obtain knowledge and master all clinical trial database systems
- Strong collaborators, very good interpersonal skills, capable to shift prioritization according to project needs and timelines
- Ability to work in a team or independently as required
- Good negotiation skills
- Ability to work under pressure
Physical Requirements / Work Environment
- Work is performed in an office environment with exposure to electrical office equipment.
- May be required to work different shifts
- Long, varied hours required on occasions
- Potential occasional travel required
- Exposure to high pressure
- Frequent interaction with project teams/clients/vendors
- Frequently stationary for 6-8 hours per day
- Repetitive hand movement of both hands with the ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists
- Frequent mobility required
- Occasional crouching, stooping, bending and twisting of upper body and neck
- Light to moderate lifting and carrying (or otherwise moves) objects including luggage and laptop computer with a maximum lift of 15-20 lbs
- Ability to access and use a variety of computer software developed both in-house and off-the-shelf
- Ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand; with the ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences
- Frequently interacts with others to obtain or relate information to diverse groups
- Works independently with little guidance or reliance on oral or written instructions and plans work schedules to meet goals. Requires multiple periods of intense concentration
- Performs a wide range of variable tasks as dictated by variable demands and changing conditions with little predictability as to the occurrence
- Regular and consistent attendance
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!
Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory with PPD, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.
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