Assoc. Project Manager - Site Payments

Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
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 an Associate Project Manager - Site Payments - Make an Impact at the Forefront of Innovation
The Associate Project Manager - Site Payments contributes to management of studies to ensure project deliverables and targets are met according to the highest quality standards. The Associate Project Manager - Site Payments liaises with internal teams to provide payment status updates and identifies and resolves issues. The role involves supporting functional leads and assisting in contract modification development. Additionally, the responsibilities may include reviewing and approving site payments, budgets and reconciliations.
What You'll Do:
Contribute to 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.
Analyze and interpret various financial reports and monitor project finances.
Train study teams on site payment process, including setting expectations around site payments' requirements and deliverables.
Generate reports for study-level KPIs and metrics; 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, and/or reconciliations, etc., in accordance with procedural documents and site contracts.
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:
Excellent organizational and negotiation skills
Good attention to detail
Capable of handling multiple time sensitive tasks efficiently and effectively
Flexible and able to reprioritize workload to meet changing project needs
Good computer skills, proficient in MS Word and Excel and CTMS, EDC or financial systems
Experience of working in a project matrix structure
Capable of mentoring and coaching others
Effective communication skills, which includes English language (oral, written) and other languages would be an advantage (where applicable)
Capable of extracting pertinent information from study documentation such as protocol, contracts, budgets, etc. and performing data entry and review of such documents
Capable of effectively analyzing project specific data/systems to ensure accuracy and efficiency
Basic understanding of country regulatory and/or applicable tax regulations.
Why Join Us:
We hire the best, develop ourselves and each other, and recognize the power of being one team. We understand that you will want to grow both professionally and personally throughout your career, and therefore you will benefit from an award-winning learning and development programme, ensuring you reach your potential.
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. 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 breakthrough.