Contract Specialist - FSP - Italy

Work Schedule

Environmental Conditions

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

DESCRIPTION:
As a Contracts Specialist II at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll contribute to supporting our mission to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. You'll be part of our Legal Function team, providing expert contract review, drafting, and negotiation support for commercial agreements across our operations. Working with a collaborative, cross-functional team of legal professionals, you'll handle contract lifecycle management while ensuring compliance with corporate policies and regulatory requirements. Your analytical skills and business understanding will help protect company interests while facilitating critical business relationships. This role offers opportunities for professional development through comprehensive training resources and exposure to diverse contract types across multiple business units.

OBJECTIVES/PURPOSE

• Supporting the facilitation of site budgets and contracts negotiations, and communication with internal and external team members to ensure prompt contract execution and study timelines are achieved.
• Support negotiation and administration of master clinical trial agreements.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Negotiate directly with assigned sites on all site related contracting items including clinical trial agreements, budgets, payment terms, ancillary agreements and amendments.
• Partner with internal Study Startup team, CROs, Clinical Operations teams, and partners to improve overall SB&C metrics and deliver processes.
• Ensure standards are applied to the SB&C processes across projects.
• Leverage leading industry tools and data sources to provide budget and contract feedback aligned with parameters and fair market value guidance.
• Promptly recognize and improve potential delays and escalate to appropriate team members.
• Track all actions and negotiations to ensure timelines are achieved for studies and sites assigned.
• Support resolving escalated issues identified by the site activation sub-team in partnership with the internal Study Startup team.

DIMENSIONS AND ASPECTS

Technical/Functional (Line) Expertise

• Understanding of the pharmaceutical industry (e.g., clinical development, the prescription drug distribution process, etc.)
• Understanding of Clinical Trial Agreements, budgeting and fair market value principals
• Knowledge or FDA and ICH-GCP guidelines for conducting clinical research

Leadership

• Demonstrated ability to work across functions, regions and cultures
• The ability to inspire, motivate and drive results
• Excellent communicator, able to persuasively convey both ideas and data, verbally and in writing
• Proven skills as an effective team player who can engender credibility and confidence within and outside the company
• Ability to distil complex issues and ideas down to simple comprehensible terms
• Embraces and demonstrates a diversity and inclusion mindset and role models these behaviors for the organization

Decision-making and Autonomy

• Broad decision-making responsibilities:
  • Ability to make decisions
  • Accountable for decision making for designated tasks
  • Ability to seek diverse input from multiple constituents and stakeholders to drive innovative solutions
  • Ability to incorporate feedback and ensure decisions are made swiftly to yield flawless execution 

Interaction

• Effectively navigates the changing external and internal environment
• Effectively represent in high-level negotiations with the ability to resolve conflict in a constructive manner

Complexity

• Ability to work in a global ecosystem (internal and external) with a high degree of complexity

EDUCATION, BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS:

• BS degree or international equivalent
• 2 or more years of experience in clinical research site contracting and budgeting within a pharmaceutical company, CRO or relevant industry vendor.
• Ability to explain data to facilitate decision making processes to be data driven.
• Knowledge and understanding of clinical study protocols and schedule of assessments 
• Strong organizational skills, decision making, communication and negotiation skills.