Senior Country Approval Specialist

7 months ago


Remote, United Kingdom Thermo Fisher Scientific Full time

Sr Country Approval Specialist (Study Start-up / Submissions Specialist)

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.

Our global Clinical Operations colleagues within our PPD® clinical research services provide end-to-end support for clinical trials from study start up to monitoring through to study close out, across commercial and government contracts. Together, we help clients define and develop clinical programs, minimize delays, and implement high-quality, cost-efficient clinical studies.

**Discover Impactful Work**:
Manages the preparation, review and coordination of Country Submissions in line with global submission strategy.

**A day in the Life**:

- Provides local regulatory strategy advice (MoH &/or EC) to internal clients.
- Develops and implements local submission strategy. Provides technical expertise and coordination oversight for projects in collaboration with relevant internal departments.
- Serves as primary contact for investigators and with the local regulatory authorities (in collaboration with the local regulatory manager for complex issues) to ensure submissions are managed in a timely manner.
- Ensures guidelines and processes are followed for effective internal PPD team communications as well as communications with investigators, and with the country regulatory authorities to ensure submissions are managed in a timely manner.
- Acts as a key-contact at country level for all submission-related activities.
- Participates as required in Submission Team Meetings, Review Meetings and Project Team meetings.
- Coordinates with internal functional departments to ensure various site start-up activities are aligned with submissions activities and mutually agreed upon timelines; ensures alignment of submission process for sites and study are aligned to the critical path for site activation.
- Achieves PPD’s target cycle times for site activations.
- Prepares the regulatory compliance review packages, as applicable.
- Liaise within SIA locally to ensure local submission activity is planned and delivered in accordance with global project submission strategy.
- Develops country specific Patient Information Sheet/Informed Consent form documents.
- May assist with grant budgets(s) and payment schedules negotiations with sites.
- Assists in identifying and recognizing local out of scope activities in a contract in a timely manner and advise relevant functions.
- Supports the coordination of feasibility activities, as required, in accordance with agreed timelines.
- Ensures that trial status information relating to SIA activities are accurately maintained in the database and is current at all times.
- Oversees country study files and ensures that they meet PPD WPD’s or client SOP’s.
- Maintains knowledge of and understand PPD SOPs, Client SOPs/directives, and current regulatory guidelines as applicable to services provided.
- Directs/mentors other SIA individuals assigned to support projects of responsibility, as appropriate
- Proactively identifies issues or anomalies in the regulatory process of a study, resolves or brings up as appropriate.

**Keys to Success**:
**Education**:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification

**Experience**:

- 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**:

- Effective oral and written communication skills
- Excellent social 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
- Good judgment and decision-making skills
- Basic medical/therapeutic area and medical terminology knowledge
- Ability to work in a team environment or independently, with mínimal supervision, as required
- Ability to mentor fellow team members in a positive and effective manner
- Excellent team player with teambuilding skills
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