FSP Vendor Management Specialist

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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.

Join our team as a Buyer/Planner II where you'll contribute to global healthcare and scientific advancement. In this role, you'll optimize inventory management and vendor relationships while ensuring seamless supply chain operations. Working with cross-functional teams, you'll analyze demand requirements, manage purchase orders, and implement continuous improvement initiatives to support our mission of enabling customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer.

This is a fully remote position for candidates located in the United States.

*Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

*Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, which includes a drug screening.

Essential Functions:

• Manage third-party study vendors including study specification creation, collection, and finalization in conjunction with the relevant functional SMEs.

• Responsible for the day-to-day management and oversight of third-party vendors at the study-level.

• Responsible for keeping SMT updated regarding progress, issues tracking

• Ensure study level contracted timelines and deliverables are clear and managed in the context of the vendor. ​​

• Proactively identify, elevate/escalate vendor issues that arise during study conduct to bring to resolution.

• Manage and measure performance of the vendor on assigned study

• Work with vendor to align KPI study delivery, management and measurement of vendor performance, escalating.

• Demonstrate appropriate oversight of vendors through regular, well-structured meetings with vendors (including agendas and minutes)

• Work with FSP Oversight Manager, Procurement to define project study specs and develop the Vendor Oversight Plan.

• SVS will drive development of specific study level vendor management plans

• Develops required study specific vendor materials

• Support the coordination of vendor performance management meetings to a study level.

• Provide accurate and up-to-date study level vendor information in relevant technology systems

• Driving the cross-functional collaboration and problem solving to ensure study level vendor risk identification and mitigation.

• Work closely with functional quality representatives (FQRs) to ensure vendor’s project deliverables meet quality standards.

• Ensures vendor’s compliance with relevant Sponsor policies and procedures.

• Facilitate effective communication and collaboration between SMT and vendor.

• Ensures deliverable transparency from vendor to enable ease of invoice review and responsible for alerting Clinical Trial Lead CTL to invoice anomalies or inconsistencies

Minimum Requirements:

• High School diploma or equivalency (bachelor's degree preferred)

• 2 + years in clinical operations management, managing clinical studies per quality, timeline, and budget expectations, with a Sponsor company or a CRO.

• Exceptional project-management, risk-assessment, contingency-planning, and communication skills and strong cross functional collaboration.

• Knowledge of clinical study management preferably related to one or more study phases (I, II, III)

• Strong understanding and practical application of Good Clinical Practices (GCP), International Council for Harmonization (ICH) guidelines and regulatory requirements for clinical development

• Demonstrated ability to establish and execute vendor plans according to study needs.

• Clinical Study Management experience working with third party vendors (preferred)

Salary Transparency:

This is a salaried role that will also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. Compensation will be initially discussed during the screening period, with actual compensation confirmed in writing at the time of offer.

We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our US colleagues and their families can count on, which generally include:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan

• A wellness program, and valuable health incentive opportunities for company contributions to a Health Reimbursement Accounts (HSAs) or Health Savings Account (HSA)

•Tax-advantaged savings and spending accounts and commuter benefits

• Employee assistance programs

• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO). 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, short- and long-term disability, and volunteer rime off in accordance with company policy.

• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan