Sr Optimization Specialist

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you will 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.

Summarized Purpose:
Essential Functions and Other Job Information:

- Proactively collaborates with initiative leads and management to prepare organize, coordinate, document and/or provide the development and delivery of department products and services to a globally dispersed, cross-functional audience in support of business outcomes and industry compliance requirements.
- Develops varied support materials, for our Safety Databases including presentations, and/or tools, and Data Entry Guidelines to support department's remit and strategies.
- Support Safety Database queries
- Leads small to medium-scale process improvement initiatives.
- Develops process improvement processes and solutions.
- Identifies and collates information required to assess compliance with processes and to prioritize business process improvement needs.
- May review, assess and update procedural documents for overall compliance with current processes.
- Performs special projects, assignments and administrative tasks per business needs.
- Provides training and guidance to junior team members.
- Supports PV operations with periodic and aggregate reports.

Job Knowledge

A seasoned, experienced professional with a full understanding of area of specialization; resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways. This job is the fully qualified, career-oriented, journey-level position.

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 5+ years).
Significant clinical research experience in all phases of clinical study life cycle, including start-up, interim and close-out, is preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

- Strong knowledge or Argus and LifeSphere Safety databases
- Knowledge of Sequel Developer
- Knowledge of computer system validation, including script writing and execution
- Thorough understanding of procedural documents
- Strong understanding of process improvement fundamentals
- Solid investigative and analytical skills
- Strong negotiation skills
- Thorough understanding of clinical management technology and systems, and strong computer skills
- Effective judgment, decision making, escalation, and risk management skills
- Effective oral and written communication skills including the ability to communicate in English, both orally and in writing
- Strong interpersonal skills and problem solving ability
- Capable of directing and promoting teamwork in a multi-disciplinary and/or multi-cultural team setting
- Strong attention to detail
- Thorough understanding of regulatory guidelines and directives
- Strong creative and critical thinking skills

**What We Offer**:
At PPD clinical research services 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 at PPD clinical research services you will benefit from an award-winning learning and development programme, ensuring you reach your potential.

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 have 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 five 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.