Site Budgeting & Contracting Lead

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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.

Manage escalations and review of assigned site budgets and contracts to ensure timely contract execution and study startup forecasts are achieved.

Support the development of creative processes, methodologies, data, and technologies that will ensure ongoing improvements in the delivery SB&C services

• Responsible for assigned country level SB&C function to develop, negotiate, administrate and execute assigned Clinical Trial Agreements and budgets.
• Oversight of assigned country budget setup including parameters development.
• Partner with Study Start up ManagersSB&C team, Clinical Operations teams, and TAU partners to improve overall SB&C metrics and implement processes.
• Ensure standards are applied to the SB&C processes across project portfolios and support continuous improvement activities while developing the process.
• Partner with Study Startup, SB&C teamand Clinical Operations teams as an escalation point for global budget escalations outside of budget parameters.
• Leverage leading industry tools and data sources to provide budget and contract feedback aligned with Takeda parameters and fair market value guidance.
• Promptly recognize and improve potential delays providing solutions to resolve and escalate non-performance.
• Manage site contracts and budgets negotiation timelines to ensure sites are "Ready To Enroll" to the Startup Project Plan.

• BS degree or international equivalent

• 4 or more years of experience in clincal research site contracting and budgeting, including country budget build with evidence of increasing responsibility within a pharmaceutical company, CRO or relevant industry vendor.
• At least 2 years of site budgeting and contracting oversight

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Ability to explain data, facilitate decision making processes to be data driven.
• Expertise in principles driving country/site budgeting and contracting strategies.
• Excellent organizational skills, decision making, communication and negotiation skills.

In some cases an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

Compensation and Benefits

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs

• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement

• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy

• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan

• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards