**Work Schedule** Standard (Mon-Fri) **Environmental Conditions** Office **Job Description** **Contract Specialist:** Drafts, reviews, negotiates and finalizes agreements with study sites in accordance with local/accepted process. • Negotiates within approved parameters both investigator grant budget negotiation parameters, contractual terms and conditions in accordance with Company contractual considerations, client contractual considerations, established process with sites and follows established escalation routes. • Ensures compliance to established negotiation parameters, authority approval, contractual process and client expectations. • Ensures compliance of budgetary guidance, templates and process. • Identifies and assesses legal, financial and operational risks in accordance with company and client contractual considerations, and escalates to appropriate level of the organization per established processes. • Provides recommendations and alternative resolutions to Investigator Contracts negotiations through established escalation channels. • Coordinates with internal functional departments to ensure various site startup activities are aligned with contractual activities and mutually agreed upon timelines; ensures alignment of contract negotiation process for sites and study are properly aligned to the critical path for site activation. • Achieves target cycle times for site activations. • Ensures guidelines and processes are followed for efficient escalation of out of parameter issues, as applicable. • Completes tracking and reporting as required. • May provide training and mentoring to junior staff. • Participates in country process improvement initiatives, representing Global Site Contract activities within country team meetings. • Acts as country subject matter expert in review of Investigator Contracts training materials. • Liaises with Global Site Contracts to ensure full compliance with established global processes and corporate directives. • Completes periodic quality reviews and peer feedback reports. • May act as lead with amendment/novation client projects and oversight of confidentiality agreement negotiations **Qualifications:** **Education and Experience:** 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) **Working Conditions and Environment:** • Ability to work in an upright and /or stationary position for 6-8 hours per day. • Repetitive hand movement of both hands with the ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists. • Frequent mobility required. • Occasional crouching, stooping, with frequent bending and twisting of upper body and neck. • Light to moderate lifting and carrying (or otherwise moves) objects including luggage and laptop computer with a maximum lift of 15-20 lbs. • Ability to access and use a variety of computer software developed both in-house and off-the-shelf. • Ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand; with the ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. • Frequently interacts with others to obtain or relate information to diverse groups. • Performs a wide range of variable tasks as dictated by variable demands and changing conditions with little predictability as to the occurrence. Ability to perform under stress. Ability to multi-task. • Regular and consistent attendance. Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.