Project Manager - Biospecimen
Thermo Fisher Scientific

Job Info

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Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions
Office

Job Description

Project Manager - Biospecimen

Lawrenceville, NJ (Hybrid)

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.

Within our Analytical Services team, we have a functional service provider solution, which is an outstanding partnership that allows our customers to use the experience of our staff, while allowing you, the employee, to gain direct experience working onsite at a pharmaceutical/ biopharmaceutical company, all while maintaining full-time benefits.

Discover Impactful Work:

The Project Manager - Biospecimen will be an independent contributor who will work closely with Clinical Teams to develop and implement biospecimen management plan for client-sponsored Phase 1-4 clinical trials and externally acquired biospecimens. Members of this team will develop and execute asset and protocol-level biospecimen strategies initially under the guidance of senior colleagues and work across the organization and with the client's partners to implement and project manage efforts to execute these strategies. Critical to this role is the ability to provide innovative solutions to oversee timelines for specimen data delivery and thereby, enabling quick decision-making and ensuring client's continuous competitive advantage. The individual will be responsible for supporting biospecimen management for opportunities to contribute toward optimizing work streams cross functionally throughout the organization as it relates to biospecimens.

A day in the Life:

• Oversee and manage the complete lifecycle of biospecimens collected for clinical studies with minimal supervision.
  
• Core Clinical Team member responsible for providing Shipping/sample movement and management including requests, query and inventory reports, follow up active issues with vendors, prepare sample management related reports, review/prepare tracking activities (such as vendor manifests/inventories, tissue/blood match pairing, depleted/non-viable samples, loading documents to Shared Drive folders, etc.).
  
• Independently reviews clinical study protocol providing comparison of vendor statement of work and biospecimen relevant sections and feedback with support as needed.
  
• Performs routine vendor management responsibilities. Able to request and/or access necessary vendor/system inventory files to perform specimen tracking.
  
• Able, under direction, to create biospecimen tracker using various tracking tools (MS Excel, Spotfire, Tableau or Polaris (if applicable)) with support.
  
• Able to identify biospecimen related risks with support from risk library. May require support for de novo risks and mitigation strategy proposals. Support Critical to Quality (C2Q) process with guidance, if needed.
  
• Exercises judgment within policy and procedure boundaries. Troubleshoots routine problems and understands when appropriate to ask for guidance. May need assistance to help prioritize BOW activities during critical deadlines.
  
• Maintain intermediate working knowledge of compound and study related biospecimen requirements.
  
• Ensure completion of individual Study Transition Forms
  

Keys to Success:

Education

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification (or equivalent)
  

Experience

• AND 3+ years of previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job or equivalent combination of education, training, & experience.
  
• Basic understanding of clinical and biomedical research, GCP, GLP, CLIA, data management, risk management and regulatory issues.
  
• Preferred experience: biospecimen life-cycle/operations, compliance, management and vendor management.
  

Years of experience refers to typical years of related experience needed to gain the required knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to perform the essential functions of the job. Years of experience are not to be used as the only determining factor in establishing the job class or making employment selection decisions.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Demonstrated clinical trial experience, healthcare/medical/laboratory or equivalent.
  
• Vendor experience preferred (e.g., Central Labs, Bioanalytical, Biomarker, CROs, Biospecimen Storage Vendors, etc.).
  
• Ability to develop skills with training for stakeholder management including conflict and change management.
  
• Biospecimen management experience preferred but not mandatory.
  
• Developing knowledge of the drug discovery or developmental process.
  
• Applies Scientific and/or functional knowledge to conduct studies in assigned area.
  
• Ability to effectively communicate, create and deliver presentation/information/data to knowledgeable audiences, with limited supervision.
  
• Ability to adopt a biopharma enterprise-wide and entrepreneurial mindset, to act with a sense of urgency, accountability and integrity, and to have fun along the way.
  
• Demonstrates change Agility through willingness to pivot current ways to working to new model(s)
  

Work Environment

Thermo Fisher Scientific values the health and wellbeing of our employees. We support and encourage individuals to create a healthy and balanced environment where they can thrive. Below is listed the working environment/requirements for this role:

• Able to communicate, receive, and understand information and ideas with diverse groups of people in a comprehensible and reasonable manner.
  
• Able to work upright and stationary for typical working hours.
  
• Ability to use and learn standard office equipment and technology with proficiency.
  
• Able to perform successfully under pressure while prioritizing and handling multiple projects or activities.
  
• May require travel. (Recruiter will provide more details.)
  

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!

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 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.

Apply today! http://jobs.thermofisher.com

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