Country Approval Specialist

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Job Description

At ThermoFisher 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 execute high-quality, cost-efficient clinical studies.

Our Start Up Operations team is rapidly growing, and we are currently looking for a Country Approval Specialist who will be responsible for pulling regulatory Country Submissions together in order to activate investigative sites. If you have a strong attention to detail, take ownership of the accuracy of these documents while holding yourself and others accountable, then this role is right for you.

• Prepare, review and coordinate, local regulatory submissions (MoH, EC, additional special national local applications if applicable, e.g. gene therapy approvals, viral safety dossiers, import license) in alignment with global submission strategy
• Provide, under guidance local regulatory strategy advice (MoH &/or EC) to internal clients
• Provide project specific local start-up services and coordination of these projects
• Have contact with investigators for submission related activities
• Key-contact at country level for either Ethical and Regulatory submission-related activities
• Coordinate, under guidance, with internal functional departments to ensure various site start-up activities are aligned with submissions activities and mutually agreed upon timelines; ensure alignment of submission process for sites and study are aligned to the critical path for site activation
• Achieve target cycle times for site activation
• May work with CRA(s) to prepare the regulatory compliance review packages, as applicable
• Develop country specific Patient Information Sheet/Informed Consent form documents
• Assist with grant budgets(s) and payment schedules negotiations with sites
• Support the coordination of feasibility activities, as required, in accordance with agreed timelines
• Enter and maintain trial status information relating to start-up activities onto internal tracking databases in an accurate and timely manner
• Ensure the local country study files and filing processes are prepared, set up and maintained as per PPD WPDs or applicable client SOPs
• Maintains knowledge of and understand PPD SOPs, Client SOPs/directives, and current regulatory guidelines as applicable to services provided

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
• Previous Start Up experience with submissions and contract negotiations (comparable to 1+ years) or equivalent

• Effective oral and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal 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
• Basic medical/therapeutic area and medical terminology knowledge
• Ability to work in a team environment or independently, under direction, as required
• Good organizational and planning skills
• Basic knowledge of all applicable regional / national country regulatory guidelines and EC regulations

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 ThermoFisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

ThermoFisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.