Associate Contract Manager
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Associate Contract Manager leading contract negotiations, risk assessment, and budgets for Thermo Fisher Scientific’s global clinical research services. Coordinating clients, legal teams, and contract specialists.
Responsibilities:
- Lead review, negotiation, and finalization of contract templates, processes, and negotiation parameters with clients
- Provide regional contractual oversight and risk assessment
- Liaise with the legal department during country process improvement initiatives
- Negotiate contractual terms and conditions within approved parameters
- Communicate and train team members on approved templates, processes, negotiation parameters, and client expectations
- Ensure collaboration and quality alignment with assigned team members
- Identify and assess legal, financial, and operational risks
- Act as regional interface and escalation contact with external clients
- Provide recommendations and alternative resolutions for contract negotiations
- Coordinate site startup activities affected by contractual activities
- Contribute to or lead departmental change initiatives
- Complete periodic quality reviews and peer feedback reports
- Create and deliver training materials
- Train and mentor junior staff
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
- Previous experience comparable to 8+ years
- Equivalent combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience may be considered
- Mastery of contract law principles
- Understanding of business, intellectual property, local tax and stamp laws across several regions
- Experience negotiating investigator grant budgets within negotiation parameters
- Thorough understanding of business, contractual and financial principles related to service agreements
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English and the language spoken at the local place of work
- Ability to draft and negotiate contract provisions and budgetary issues within parameters
- Strong attention to detail
- Excellent analytical and decision-based thinking
- In-depth understanding of clinical drug development and trial processes in the pharmaceutical and/or CRO industry
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Customer-focused communication, problem solving and collaboration abilities
- Proficiency with automated systems and Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word
- Excellent problem solving, risk assessment and impact analysis abilities
- Ability to lead and mentor others
Benefits:
- Global team environment
- Career development and individual career goals support
- Collaboration and professional development opportunities
- Training and mentoring opportunities
- Healthy and balanced work environment
- Personal protective equipment provided/required for the work environment
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