Senior Vendor Management Coordinator

Thermo Fisher Scientific • Morrisville, NC

1d • Onsite

About The Position

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.

Summarized Purpose: Acts as a liason and support to the local team in all areas of clinical supplies lifecycle (i.e., receipt, storage & handling, shipment & delivery, return & and accountability, destruction coordination) for assigned studies.

Requirements

• High / Secondary school diploma or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
• Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to at least 4 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.
• Intermediate English and excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Strong attention to detail
• Adaptive to changes
• Ability to utilize proper channels of communications to voice concerns and suggestions
• Basic computer skills (Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, Internet Explorer), including keyboarding skills
• Capable of working in a team environment as well as work independently with direct supervision

Responsibilities

• Executes the day to day operations of the study drug, comparators and ancillaries management.
• Coordinates with vendors and assists with vendor management manage vendors when clinical supplies services are required to be outsourced.
• Ensures all activities are executed in compliance with company good practices and client requirements.
• Completes on going training on new regulations concerning clinical supplies and GxP activities.
• Participates in and supports department project teams, including development clinical supply strategy.
• Assists in the development and suggestion of improvements to update departmental SOPs.
• May train or assist junior staff.
• Asks for quotations to vendors and verify them against what was required by internal clients.
• Interacts with other groups and departments to get approvals and revisions over budgets.
• Follows the Global procedures and internal agreement to place a Purchase Order.
• Participates in the GCS mini team meetings, providing insight about vendors processes and procedures, costs, timeline, requirements and deliverable.
• Connect and manage the vendors selected for services.
• Keeps control and oversight on the POs and services performed by vendors, following up on distribution plan, SIV dates, right products to be delivered.
• Provides monthly metrics of the studies allocated to him/her.
• Provides constant feedback about room for improvements to the line manager.

Benefits

• Thermo Fisher Scientific is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, religion, color, national or ethnic origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, genetic information, veteran status, age or disability status.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: High school or GED