About the Role
Join us as a Clinical Relations Specialist and utilize your skills to connect with patients, coordinate outreach efforts, provide education and resources, and ensure patients have access to the care and support they need. 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.
Responsibilities
- Support the delivery of recruitment objectives, business growth and randomization targets by taking responsibility for recruitment, engagement and retention of patients at the sites.
- Build a strong network with non-medical partners (Patients advocacy groups, sport groups, social clubs, schools, retirement houses) to strengthen the awareness of clinical trials.
- Locate, schedule and attend various community wide events that allows face-to-face interaction to obtain opt-in database leads.
- Cultivate and maintain respectable relations with the community and promote clinical trials attend community events.
- Maintain knowledge of current enrolling studies, timelines for the studies and protocol requirements.
- Ensure an increase in the database and actively contributes to initiatives and strategies to enroll potential participants onto the database.
- Distribute flyers, posters and other advertising material as appropriate to increase awareness of clinical trials.
- Ensure technology is utilized to fullest extent in recruitment strategies to secure on-time Enrollment.
- Manage projects and act as point of contact for various internal clients.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
- Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 2+ 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.
- Good planning, organization and time-management skills with ability to effectively prioritize workload
- Solid interpersonal and problem-solving skills to enable working in a multicultural matrix organization
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Presentation skills
- Ability to multi-task
- Proactive and detail-oriented
- Ability to work independently as well as in a collaborative team environment
- Strong business acumen and positive attitude
- High degree of accuracy, concentration and proofing skills
- Work is performed in an office environment with exposure to electrical office equipment.
- Occasional drives to site locations with occasional travel both domestic and international.
- Frequently stationary for 6-8 hours per day.
- Repetitive hand movement of both hands with the ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
- Frequent mobility required.
- Occasional crouching, stooping, bending and twisting of upper body and neck.
- Light to moderate lifting and carrying (or otherwise moves) objects including luggage and laptop computer with a maximum lift of 15-20 lbs.
- 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.
Skills
- Patient connection
- Outreach coordination
- Education and resource provision
- Patient access to care and support
- Recruitment
- Engagement
- Retention
- Networking
- Community event participation
- Clinical trial promotion
- Project management
- Planning
- Organization
- Time-management
- Prioritization
- Interpersonal skills
- Problem-solving
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Presentation skills
- Multi-tasking
- Proactive
- Detail-oriented
- Independent work
- Collaborative work
- Business acumen
- Accuracy
- Concentration
- Proofing
- Computer software utilization
- Information communication
- Active listening
- Stress management
Location
- Office environment
Work Type
- Standard (Mon-Fri)
- Occasional drives to site locations
- Occasional travel both domestic and international
Experience Level
- 2+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
About the Company
- Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of more than $40 billion.
- Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.
- Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them.
- Our global team delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD.
- When you join Thermo Fisher Scientific, you become part of a global team that values passion, innovation, and a commitment to scientific excellence.
- You’ll work in an environment where collaboration and development are part of the everyday experience – and where your contributions truly make a difference.
Equal Opportunity
- We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
- 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.
