Work Schedule
Standard Office Hours (40/wk)
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.
Location/Division Specific Information
Our Global Clinical Supplies (GCS) team specializes in managing the complete lifecycle of clinical trial materials, ensuring the seamless delivery of investigational products and study supplies worldwide. Leveraging an extensive network of cGMP facilities, the GCS team offers services that include packaging, labeling, global distribution, and compliance with complex import and export regulations. Their expertise ensures that clinical trial materials are handled efficiently and in accordance with regulatory standards, supporting the successful execution of clinical studies
Shift Schedule: Rotational Day Shift and Mid Shift
- Day Shift: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM or 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
- Mid Shift: 1:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Work Arrangement: Fully Remote
Office Address: 22/F Seven/NEO Building, 5th Avenue, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City, Philippines
Discover Impactful Work:
A Vendor Management Specialist provides complete oversight of vendor supply chain for moderate complexity clinical trials in single or more than one region. Selects and contracts with appropriate vendors for scope of client's study and provides financial control and oversight of pass through budgets.
A day in the Life:
- Identifies the scope of third party vendors required to support clinical trails.
- Oversight of contracting with vendors, including legal and contract modifications, where required.
- Ensures all activities are executed in compliance with company practices, client requirements and GxP.
- Provides financial management of vendor pass through costs.
- Identifies risks proactively, develops contingency plans, and communicates to stakeholders.
- Oversight of inverse logistics processes, including returns, destruction, and recalibration activities.
- Participates in GCS mini team meetings, providing insight about vendors processes and procedures, costs, timelines, requirements and deliverables.
- Maintains close collaboration of I/E activities to ensure that appropriate regulations are followed for all countries imports and exports.
Keys to Success:
Education
- Bachelor's Degree related to Supply Chain, Business Administration or Management, or Engineering
Experience
- Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 5+ years)
- Preferably with minimum 5 years proven experience in Supply Chain, Procurement, and, Vendor Management.
- Must have atleast 2 years experience in leading a team, and/or mentoring or coaching junior colleagues.
- Preferably working experience working with international vendors
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
- Excellent English communication skills, written and oral
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Strong organizational, planning and time management skills
- Strong customer service orientation and attention to detail aligned with high standards of quality and excellence
- Adaptive to changes and ability to manage high pressure situations
- Experience of managing vendors
- Supply chain experience, preferably with clinical trials or pharmaceutical industry
- Import/Export experience
- Procurement experience
- GxP experience
- May coordinate or serve as a liaison cross-functionally
Physical Requirements / Work Environment
- Ability to access and use a variety of computer software developed both in-house and off-the-shelf.
- Ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand; with the ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Frequently interacts with others to obtain or relate information to diverse groups.
- Works independently with little guidance or reliance on oral or written instructions and plans work schedules to meet goals. Requires multiple periods of intense concentration.
- Performs a wide range of variable tasks as dictated by variable demands and changing conditions with little predictability as to the occurrence. Ability to perform under stress. Ability to multi-task.
- Regular and consistent attendance.
Benefits
We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!
