Project Support Associate

Division: Clinical Trial Division (CTD)

When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work, like helping customers in finding cures for cancer, protecting the environment or making sure our food is safe. Your work will have real-world impact, and you’ll be supported in achieving your career goals. Fisher Clinical Services GmbH is part of Thermo Fisher Scientific Corporation, a world-class company serving the scientific community and healthcare industry. We are leaders in providing clinical supply chain management services and clinical supplies distributed to patients worldwide. For more information about our site in Allschwil please visit: www.fisherclinicalservices.com Client Services Project Manager

Position summary: The Project Support Associate provides administrative support to Project Managers for successful completion and supply maintenance over the life cycle of each project. Project support activities include task completion and issue resolution with internal customer procedures and support systems.

Responsibilities:
Works with the Client and the internal project management team to finalize project specifications. This may include meetings either at Fisher Clinical Services or at the client’s premises.  Assists in setting up and maintaining study filing systems and maintains accurate records for all work undertaken.
Joint responsibility with the Project Manager for ensuring that all Fisher Clinical Services activities come together in a timely manner to meet the customer and study requirements.
Coordination and communication of all relevant activities, both internal and external to ensure that all services and products are ready for the start of the study or as required by the customer.
Use of appropriate project planning tools to communicate milestones and critical path activities and responsibilities.
Timely provision of reports and other information to customers if applicable.
Works with the Master Production Scheduler to optimize production of clinical supplies balancing the customer requirements with the best use of available capacity.
Creates and/ or supports creation of operational documentation using internal systems. Create bill of materials in GPM and coordinate creation and review of billing packages.
Provides back-up support to the Project manager.
Collects all information on a study design including; accurate label texts, coordination of primary, secondary packaging material and tools, coordination of label translation, producing all batch documentation for operations and check of documentation, coordination of shipments through the logistics department, and writing Distribution orders and GMP instructions in a timely manner.
Applies Good Manufacturing Principles in all areas of responsibility.
Monitors project activities and day to day business and establishes a customer approved job specification,

Qualifications:
Bachelor Degree in Business Administration, Commercial apprenticeship or comparable education.
Ideally, 3 years’ experience in Logitics, project management or similar.
Requires understanding and competent use of SOPs required by company Quality standards.
Requires excellent organizational, planning, verbal, written and numerical skills with the ability to analyze and define solutions and run multiple tasks to meet strict deadlines.
Requires strong and effective communicator with the ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers and clients.
Business English required
Required strong MS Office skills.
Ability to work in a large team.
Capable of working under own initiative with minimum supervision.

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