**About Thermo Fisher Scientific**
We are vital links between an idea for a new medicine and the people who need it. Our organization is made up of thousands of employees in locations worldwide connected by tenacity and passion for our purpose: to improve health. You will be joining a truly collaborative and winning culture as we strive to bend the time and cost curve of delivering lifesaving treatments to patients.
Our global Clinical Research Group consists of colleagues with institutional knowledge, in-depth therapeutic experience, and robust operational tools. Together, we help clients define and develop clinical programs, minimize delays, and execute high-quality, cost-efficient clinical studies for regulatory approval.
We hire the best, develop ourselves and each other, and recognize the power of being one team. We offer continued career advancement opportunities, award winning training and benefits focused on the health and wellbeing of our employees.
The Commercial Finance team is responsible for producing clinical trial budget proposals and managing contract modifications to suit our client needs in delivering safe and effective treatments to patients. The Commercial Finance Analyst leads cross-functional processes, stakeholders, and timelines to ensure clinical trial contract proposals and/or budget modifications are completed accurately throughout the project lifecycle.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Reviews customer information provided via request for proposal (RFP) and/or request for contract modifications to ensure it has adequate information for budget preparation.
- Leads strategy calls to discuss customer requirements for each clinical study and discuss budget strategy development and/or contract modifications.
- Drives client delivery of complex, high value proposals and/or contract modifications for clinical trials under tight client deadlines.
- Works on multiple budget proposals / contract modifications simultaneously with a cross-functional international team in multiple time zones.
- Manages the proposal bid and budget negotiation process, working with internal stakeholders to combine client requirements and internal data to determine resource and budget allocations for project plans and study strategies.
- Prepares and enters budgets into a bidding system ensuring accurate information and timely delivery according to strict deadlines and client request.
- Finalizes client facing documents after securing internal department approvals, performing quality control edits to ensure accuracy, proper data formatting, and compliance with contract requirements.
- Ensures proposals and contract modifications concisely and accurately reflect strategy discussions, meet client needs, offer consistent messaging, and communicate value proposition and critical success factors.
- Develops and maintains a positive client relationship through the budget negotiation or contract modification process securing client agreement and execution of contracts in a timely manner.
**Minimum Requirements/Qualifications**
- Be an effective and respected partner to clients and constantly seek customer satisfaction.
- Effective time management to handle multiple tasks while still delivering high quality results.
- Strong written and oral communication skills. Capable and comfortable with communicating, discussing and proposing ideas in written and oral English with internal and external stakeholders.
- Capable of working independently to accomplish tasks and achieve goals, identifying and prioritizing own work, making decisions, and taking ownership of projects.
- Self-starter with great solving problems skills and high level of adaptability to changing circumstances.
- Works effectively without constant supervision, collaborates and communicates effectively with others to achieve deadlines and meet high quality deliverable standards.
- Strong organizational and project administration skills with a high level of attention to detail.
- High level of proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint for analysis and presentation of data. Expect intensive use of Excel and advanced formulas on a daily basis.
- Confidence to handle sensitive information and make sound recommendations.
- Solid understanding of financial budgeting principles and best practices.
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills
**Education and Experience**:
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 0-2 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 requirements of the role.
**Working Environment**:
We value the health and wellbeing of our employees. We support and encourage individuals to create a healthy and balanced environment where they can thri