Comparator Sourcing Lead - Clinical Supplies FSP

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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.

Role Overview
Join our team as a Comparator Sourcing Lead (Vendor Management Specialist for our client -dedicated team (FSP) as part of our Global Clinical Supplies operations where you'll contribute to global healthcare and scientific advancement.

The Comparators and Collaborations Team supports the strategy and execution of central comparator sourcing for clinical trials for our client. We are currently experiencing rapidly increasing demand for comparator sourcing support especially for accelerated studies. This role will specifically be focused in supporting our comparator sourcing work which includes:

Open in a number of locations in the EMEA region (can be home based in these country locations).

Key responsibilities:

Market intelligence research:

• Provide timely Comparator Market Intelligence and Comparator research to support our client's portfolio requirements including but not limited to pricing, availability, lead time, sourcing constraints.

Sourcing recommendations:

• Provide recommendations for sourcing using available options on the current market and future outlook.
• Provide expert advice and recommendations for regional sourcing (eg. US / EU / ROW) and central / local / hybrid sourcing strategy.
• Work with our client to evaluate additional requirements eg. packaging or labelling if required.

Execution/Order placement:

• If required, place purchase orders for comparator supply on behalf of our client and maintain oversight through purchasing and delivery
• Promptly raise escalations /concerns to our client (eg. temperature excursions, quality issues).

Expertise in external landscape for comparator sourcing:

• Act as an SME and keep up to date with the latest in comparator sourcing including market trends, options for innovation, product shortages, regulatory landscape, demand fluctuations
• Proactively communicate to our clients' external trends / updates in comparator sourcing to help our clients' innovate, improve operational performance and deliver portfolio requirements.

Collaborative working:

• Work closely with the Comparators and Collaborations team at our client. May also have interactions with other functions with our Client (eg. Clinical Operations, Clinical Supply Chain, Regulatory, Procurement).
• May work on a variety of projects in our clients' portfolio or specialise in a project.

Qualifications/Experience

• BSc or equivalent in scientific discipline
• Strong experience in pharmaceutical industry (pharma, vaccines or consumer healthcare)
• Strong project and performance delivery
• Ability to influence, negotiate and communicate across a range of business levels
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Be responsive and agile to changing business priorities
• Knowledge of Supply Chain activities in a pharmaceutical or vaccine background is preferred
• Knowledge of CMC medicine development and all phases of clinical trials is preferred
• Experience in supplier relationship management and building relationships with third party providers is preferred