Senior Project Manager - Site Payments

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Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies.

With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

Join Us as a Senior Project Manager - Site Payments - Make an Impact at the Forefront of Innovation

The Senior Project Manager - Site Payments provides senior level management of studies to ensure project deliverables and targets are met according to the highest quality standards and liaises with internal teams to provide payment status updates and identify and resolve issues. Additionally, the Senior Project Manager - Site Payments assumes functional lead responsibility, including budget and contract modification development. Additionally, the role involves reviewing and approving site payments, budgets and reconciliations.

What You'll Do:

• Provide senior level study management, ensuring that individual project targets are met and services are provided according to the highest quality standards, policies and procedures. Escalate project risks appropriately.
• Plan and communicate to team members study specific tasks and project priorities.
• May review and approve payments, budgets, reconciliations, etc., in accordance with procedural documents and site contracts.
• Support functional lead including allocation requests and assists with con mod/CNF generation.
• Analyze and interpret various financial reports and monitor project finances.
• Train study teams on site payment processes, including setting expectations around site payments' requirements and deliverables.
• Generate reports for study-level KPIs and metrics and evaluate and interpret data. Escalate performance issues to management.
• Attend internal team meetings and provide updates on payment statuses.
• Manage escalations (project team, site and sponsor) regarding payment issues.
• May generate payments in accordance with procedural documents and site contracts. May build and enter budgets and SVTs; work on transparency reporting; perform study reconciliations; manage and maintain investigator funds tracker for studies transitioned to site payments.
• May review and approve payments, budgets, reconciliations, etc., in accordance with procedural documents and site contracts.
• Mentor and train junior team members.

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 5+ 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:

• Solid organizational and negotiation skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Proven ability to handle multiple time sensitive tasks efficiently and effectively
• Flexible and able to reprioritize workload to meet changing project needs
• Excellent computer skills, proficient in MS Word and Excel and CTMS, EDC or financial systems
• Experience of working in a project matrix structure
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and coach others
• Effective communication skills, which includes English language (oral, written) and other languages would be an advantage (where applicable)
• Highly skilled at extracting pertinent information from study documentation such as protocol, contracts, budgets, etc. and performing data entry and review of such documents
• Demonstrated ability to effectively analyze project specific data/systems to ensure accuracy and efficiency
• Mastery of country regulatory and/or applicable tax regulations
• Capable of leading study related activities with little to no interaction from management.

Why Join Us?

When you join Thermo Fisher Scientific, you become part of a global team that values passion, innovation, and a commitment to scientific excellence. You’ll work in an environment where collaboration and development are part of the everyday experience - and where your contributions truly make a difference.

What we offer:

As well as being rewarded a competitive salary, we have an extensive benefits package based around the health and well-being of our employees. We have a flexible working culture, where PPD® clinical research services truly value a work-life balance. We’ve grown sustainably year on year but continue to offer a collaborative environment, with teams of colleagues eager to share expertise and have fun together. We are a global organization but with a local feel.

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory with PPD, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

Our 4i Values: 

Integrity – Innovation – Intensity – Involvement 

If you resonate with our 4i values above, and ultimately wish to accelerate the delivery of safe and effective therapeutics for some of the world’s most urgent health needs, submit your application – we’d love to hear from you!

Apply today to help us deliver tomorrow’s breakthroughs.