Thermo Fisher Scientific is seeking a Sr Site Contracts Specialist in Israel to join our global Clinical Operations team. In this role, you will manage the end-to-end contracting process for clinical trial sites, ensuring quality, risk analysis, and efficient delivery of Investigator Contracts. You'll be instrumental in enabling our mission to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer.
What You'll Do
- Draft, review, negotiate, and finalize agreements with study sites in accordance with local and accepted processes.
- Negotiate investigator grant budgets and contractual terms within approved parameters, following established escalation routes.
- Ensure compliance with mediation parameters, authority approval, contractual process, and client expectations.
- Identify and assess legal, financial, and operational risks and escalate per established processes.
- Coordinate with internal functional departments to align site startup activities with contractual activities and timelines.
- Achieve target cycle times for site activations.
- Complete required tracking and reporting.
- May provide training and mentoring to junior staff.
- Participate in country process improvement initiatives and represent Global Site Contract activities in meetings.
- Act as country subject matter expert in reviewing Investigator Contracts training materials.
- Liaise with Global Site Contracts to ensure compliance with global processes and corporate directives.
- Complete periodic quality reviews and peer feedback reports.
- May act as lead on amendment/novation client projects and oversee confidentiality agreement negotiations.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification.
- Previous experience comparable to 5+ years.
- Detailed understanding of the principles of contract law, including business, intellectual property, and local tax and stamp laws.
- Effective communication skills (verbal & written) in English and the local language.
- Detailed understanding and demonstrated ability to effectively mediate investigator grant budgets within parameters.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Excellent analytical and decision-based thinking skills.
- Solid knowledge and understanding of the pharmaceutical product development process and involvement of CROs.
- Able to work independently or in a team environment.
- Good organizational and time management skills.
- Solid understanding of PPD SOP & WPDs.
- Able to organize competing priorities logically and review outstanding contractual risk and issues.
- Able to effectively use automated systems and computerized applications.
- Ability to demonstrate a customer-focused style of communication, problem solving, and collaboration.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively negotiate investigator grant budgets within negotiation parameters.
- Demonstrated ability to independently train and mentor staff.
- Demonstrated ability to provide valuable feedback to Investigator Analysts.
- Strong problem solving skills demonstrated via solid risk analysis.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively negotiate Investigator Contracts in the best interests of the company and client.
Team & Environment
You will be part of global Clinical Operations within PPD clinical research services.
Work Mode
This is an onsite position based in Israel.
Thermo Fisher Scientific provides a culture that supports and encourages individuals to create a healthy and balanced environment where they can thrive.
