Company Overview

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science, with revenues of more than $24 billion and approximately 70,000 employees globally. Our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We help our customers accelerate life sciences research, solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics, deliver medicines to market and increase laboratory productivity.

Role Context

The Country Approval Associate supports the preparation, review and coordination of Country Submissions in line with global submission strategy.

What You'll Do:

• Prepare, review and coordinate, under guidance and local EC submissions in alignment with global submission strategy.
• Support preparation, under guidance, of local MoH submissions, as applicable in alignment with global submission strategy.
• Coordinate, under guidance, with internal functional departments to ensure various site start-up activities are aligned with submissions activities and mutually agreed upon timelines; ensure alignment of submission process for sites and study are aligned to the critical path for site activation.
• Achieve company’s target cycle times for site.
• May have contact with investigators for submission related activities.
• May act as a key-contact at country level for either Ethical or Regulatory submission-related activities.
• Work with the start-up CRA(s) to prepare the regulatory compliance review packages, as applicable.
• Assist in developing country specific Patient Information Sheet/Informed Consent form documents.
• Assist with grant budgets(s) and payment schedules negotiations with sites.
• Enter and maintain trial status information relating to SIA activities onto company, or client (where contracted) tracking databases in an accurate and timely manner.
• Ensure the local country study files and filing processes are prepared, set up and maintained as per PPD WPDs or applicable client SOPs.
• Maintain knowledge of and understand PPD SOPs, Client SOPs/directives, and current regulatory guidelines as applicable to services provided.

Education & 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 0 to 2 years).
• 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:

• Effective oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Strong attention to detail and quality of documentation.
• Good negotiation skills.
• Good computer skills and the ability to learn appropriate software.
• Good English language and grammar skills.
• Basic medical/therapeutic area and medical terminology knowledge.
• Ability to work in a team environment or independently, under direction, as required.
• Basic organizational and planning skills.
• Basic knowledge of all applicable regional / national country regulatory guidelines and EC regulations.

• Prepare, review and coordinate, under guidance and local EC submissions in alignment with global submission strategy.
• Support preparation, under guidance, of local MoH submissions, as applicable in alignment with global submission strategy.
• Coordinate, under guidance, with internal functional departments to ensure various site start-up activities are aligned with submissions activities and mutually agreed upon timelines; ensure alignment of submission process for sites and study are aligned to the critical path for site activation.
• Achieve company’s target cycle times for site.
• May have contact with investigators for submission related activities.
• May act as a key-contact at country level for either Ethical or Regulatory submission-related activities.
• Work with the start-up CRA(s) to prepare the regulatory compliance review packages, as applicable.
• Assist in developing country specific Patient Information Sheet/Informed Consent form documents.
• Assist with grant budgets(s) and payment schedules negotiations with sites.
• Enter and maintain trial status information relating to SIA activities onto company, or client (where contracted) tracking databases in an accurate and timely manner.
• Ensure the local country study files and filing processes are prepared, set up and maintained as per PPD WPDs or applicable client SOPs.
• Maintain knowledge of and understand PPD SOPs, Client SOPs/directives, and current regulatory guidelines as applicable to services provided.

• Effective oral and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Strong attention to detail and quality of documentation
• Good negotiation skills
• Good computer skills and the ability to learn appropriate software
• Good English language and grammar skills
• Basic medical/therapeutic area and medical terminology knowledge
• Ability to work in a team environment or independently, under direction, as required
• Basic organizational and planning skills
• Basic knowledge of all applicable regional / national country regulatory guidelines and EC regulations.

• 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 0 to 2 years).
• 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.