Associate Contract Manager

Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri) Environmental Conditions
Office Job Description

Join Us as a Contract Manager – Make an Impact at the Forefront of Innovation

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.

We have successfully supported the top 50 pharmaceutical companies and more than 750 biotechs, spanning 2,700 clinical trials across 100+ countries in the last 5 years.

The Associate Contract Manager serves as a regional lead in managing the preparation, negotiation and finalization of contract templates, process and negotiation parameters (including, contractual terms and conditions, and ancillary documents), with an assigned workload of clients. Ensures quality, objectivity and risk analysis in the efficient delivery of contract templates, process and negotiation parameters. teams and Contract Specialists as directed by Contract Managers.
What You'll Do:

- Lead the review, negotiation, and finalization of contract templates, process and
negotiation parameters with clients in accordance with PPD contractual
considerations and processes.
• Provide contractual risk assessment in accordance with
established contractual considerations, and serve as the liaison with the legal
department during country process improvement initiatives.
• Negotiate within approved parameters contractual terms and conditions in accordance with
company contractual considerations, client contractual considerations,
established process with clients and follows established escalation routes.
• Communicate and provide approved contract templates, process and
negotiation parameters and client expectations to assigned team members.
• Ensure collaboration, quality alignment with terms and conditions, process and
client expectations with assigned team members.
• Identify and assess legal, financial and operational risks in accordance with
approved PPD and client contractual considerations.
• Act as a regional interface and escalation contact with external clients for
term & condition revisions outside of approved negotiation parameters, client
expectations and process deviations.
• Provide recommendations and alternative resolutions to contract negotiations to
internal and external clients.
• Work with internal functional departments to facilitate coordination of different
site startup activities impacted by contractual activities upon mutually agreed
upon timelines.
• Contribute to change initiatives within the department.
• Complete periodic quality reviews and peer feedback reports.
• Deliver training material to team members.

Education and Experience Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
• Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to
5+ years bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification

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.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
• Mastery of the principles of contract law, including a general understanding of laws that influence
contract la