Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

As a Senior Manager of Contracts for the Clinical Trials Division you will support, the Pharma Services Group (PSG) of Thermo Fisher Scientific, by negotiating a variety of customer facing agreements globally. Getting deals done that all parties believe are fair, durable, and lay the foundation for long term partnerships is how you will make valuable contributions.

This is a full time, permanent opportunity with 100% remote working within the UK.

What will you do?

• Draft and negotiate both routine and non-routine contractual agreements. The complexity of agreement may vary from moderate to complex. Must be experienced in redlining legal agreements.
• Leads or participates in the contract negotiation process and have the ability to negotiate contentious issues at multiple levels both internally and with the client, keeping risk exposure in mind.
• Be fully accountable for the outcome of negotiations and ensure conformity to business needs, accurate risk allocation and compliance with internal policies and procedures.
• Be a negotiator willing to stand up to unprincipled techniques and pressures.
• Interface efficiently with internal partners and customers to influence and provide direction to guide the contracting process.
• Generate options and solutions to break through impasses that work for all parties.
• Continually strive to make the contracting process more efficient, effective, and customer centric.
• Follow and help improve the tools used to ensure consistency in processes and ensure maximum situational awareness for all internal partners throughout the contract process to improve turnaround time a growing client base.
• Maintain and use the database within the contract management system of current and terminated contracts and coordinate processes to track contract flow and contractual obligations.
• Serve as the main liaison between the client and the manufacturing sites and business units in Europe and the Middle East during the contract negotiation phase of a project.
• Ability to work in a matrixed environment with internal partners and sell the value of the contracting role to: sales, finance, marketing, legal, quality, and site management/operations.
• Be able to mentor and develop team members.
• Participate on internal meetings to provide information and update on business and contracting issues.
• Other duties may be assigned to meet business needs.

People Management:
Build successful work environments and provide support and mentorship to your team ensuring high levels of performance. Complete People Management tasks for your team including, but not limited to: attracting and selecting talent, onboarding and training, setting clear goals and performance expectations, providing open, timely and useful feedback, conducting appraisals and development discussions.

Who we are looking for:

• Advanced business degree such as an MBA or Law Degree preferred but not required
• Strong PQE (preferably in-house or in a full-service international law firm) with proficient contract negotiation experience
• Customer facing contract negotiation experience with the ability to work to work under different pressures from both customers and internal partners
• Leadership experience as this role will involve managing 1 direct report
• Fluent in the English language

About Thermo Fisher Scientific

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our global team of more than 100,000 colleagues delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com.

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