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Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
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.
Discover Impactful Work
Forecasts, tracks and identifies resource allocation needs, assignments, and availability for assigned projects. Supports the efficient utilization and forecasting of labor needs of clinical resources in each assigned geographical area through evaluation and analysis. Ensures appropriate composition of project teams to enable presentation of appropriate clinical teams to clients. Impacts the performance and profitability of project teams from a quality, operational and financial aspect across all therapeutic area
A Day In The Life
- Tracks and identifies resource needs and assignments. Coordinates the intake, follow up and resolution of all resource requests. Maintains project module in the system.
- Evaluates resource requests, availability and assignments with other areas to assure resourcing needs in all areas are met. Identifies staff for assignments based on client requirements, employee background, therapeutic requirements, geographical area, availability.
- Leads weekly resourcing needs and meetings. Distributes resourcing reports. Updates roll-off dates and assignments for all clinical resources of projects managed by respective area. Actively participates and contributes to agenda/discussion during routine meetings for area Resource Analysts.
- Coordinates, tracks and distributes CVs as needed. Liaises with CV administrator group to ensure CVs are accurate and up-to-date.
- Liaises with internal departments to prioritize resourcing needs and assignments for future work, RFPs and bid defense meetings.
- Utilizes resourcing dashboards, and other available tools to reconcile and QC departmental reports, including monthly resourcing projections and utilization reports for senior management.
- Identifies and submits proposals of available resources based on availability and experience.
- Undertakes special projects with a goal of ongoing improvement and streamlining the resourcing function including long range metrics and projections.
- Mentors and assists in training of new staff as necessary.
Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
Experience
- Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 2+ years’) or equivalent combination of education, training, & experience
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.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
- Knowledge of project resourcing and forecasting and applicable tools for tracking and forecasting needs
- Proficient knowledge of MS Office including Outlook and Excel
- Effective problem solving and facilitation skills
- Knowledge of relational databases and ability to generate reports
- Able to gather, interpret and evaluate information from a variety of resources to make decisions and recommendations
- Good quantitative and analytical ability
- Excellent attention to detail
- Ability to manage multiple projects and multitask with little supervision
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Knowledge of expectations and resourcing needed to effectively staff project teams to promote business goals and future authorizations
Physical Requirements / Work Environment
- Work is performed in an office or clinical environment with exposure to electrical office equipment.
- Occasional drives to site locations. Potential Occasional travel required
- Frequently stationary for 4-6 hours per day.
- Repetitive hand movement of both hands with the ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
- Occasional 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.
- May interact with others, relating and gathering sensitive information. Interaction includes diverse groups.
- Works with guidance or reliance on oral or written instructions from management. May require 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.
