Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
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.
Our hard-working teams combine and deliver centralized support and solutions for the clinical trials, collaborating to improve processes, cycle and flexibility. We partner with our sites, businesses and colleagues around the world to decrease startup timelines and go above and beyond.
A day in the Life:
- Provides senior level study management, ensuring that individual project targets are met and services are provided accoding to the highest quality standards, policies and procedures. Escalates project risks appropriately.
- Reviews and approves payments, budgets, reconciliations, etc., in accordance with procedural documents and site contracts.
- Supports functional lead including allocation requests and assists with con mod/CNF generation.
- Analyzes and interprets various financial reports and monitors project finances.
- Trains study teams on site payment processes, including setting expectations around site payments requirements and deliverables.
- Generates reports for study-level KPIs and metrics and evaluates and interprets data. Raises performance issues to management.
- Attends internal team meetings and provides updates on payment statuses. Manages escalations (project team, site and sponsor) regarding payment issues.
- May generate payments in accordance with procedural documents and site contracts. May build and enter budgets and SVTs; work on transparency reporting; perform study reconciliations; manage and maintain investigator funds tracker for studies transitioned to site payments.
- May review and approve payments, budgets, reconciliations, etc., in accordance with procedural documents and site contracts.
- Mentors and trains junior team members.
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 5+ years’).
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
- Solid organizational and negotiation skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Proven ability to handle multiple time sensitive tasks efficiently and effectively
- Flexible and able to reprioritize workload to meet changing project needs
- Excellent computer skills, proficient in MS Word and Excel and CTMS, EDC or financial systems
- Experience of working in a project matrix structure
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and coach others
- Effective communication skills, which includes English language (oral, written) and other languages would be an advantage (where applicable)
- Highly skilled at extracting pertinent information from study documentation such as protocol, contracts, budgets, etc. and performing data entry and review of such documents
- Demonstrated ability to effectively analyze project specific data/systems to ensure accuracy and efficiency
- Mastery of country regulatory and/or applicable tax regulations
- Capable of leading study related activities with little to no interaction from management
Why Join Us?
We hire the best, develop ourselves and each other, and recognize the power of being one team. We understand that you will want to grow both professionally and personally throughout your career, and therefore, you will benefit from an award-winning learning and development programme, ensuring you reach your potential.
As well as being rewarded a competitive salary, we have an extensive benefits package based around the health and well-being of our employees. We have a flexible working culture, where PPD clinical research services truly value a work-life balance. We’ve grown sustainably year on year but continue to offer a collaborative environment, with teams of colleagues eager to share expertise and have fun together. We are a global organization but with a local feel!
Clinical Research | Thermo Fisher Scientific
Our team of colleagues in clinical research services are at the forefront of getting cures to market.