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As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.
Purpose:
Prepares complex bespoke, compelling proposals in alignment with client needs and company commercial strategy across a range of formats and deliverable types, as well as supporting additional initiatives and team training as needed.
Essential Functions and Other Job Information:
- Applies advanced knowledge of our integrated services and solutions, as well as commercial acumen to create and lead proposal deliverables from initiation to delivery, across text, slides, and spreadsheet formats. Understands, recommends, and incorporates latest and focused evidence in the proposal showcasing capability and experience.
- Collaborates with key scientific, operational, and commercial stakeholders to gather input for proposals, including leading calls to discuss proposal needs.
- Reviews client requirements, analyzes and interprets appropriate data and technical information from contributors to tailor proposal to client needs and associated budget.
- Contributes to ongoing development of library content.
- Conducts quality control checks for own work and peers.
- Regularly participates in departmental initiatives to support the Strategic Proposal Development team in addition to regular proposal responsibilities.
- Stays abreast of company’s differentiated solutions and offerings to work across service areas and optimize proposals.
- Mentors/trains junior/new employees as needed.
- Visible leader on the proposal manager team who willingly shares knowledge with peers in both formal and informal settings.
- CRO experience is required
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification.
- Previous experience in at least two of the following areas (comparable to 8+ years):
- Clinical research industry role with writing responsibilities
- Proposals experience in a life sciences or technical field
- Experience in a commercial setting
- Scientific writing
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, and Abilities:
- Effective project manager with strong attention to detail that can consistently deliver quality, on-time proposals while balancing multiple deliverables/priorities.
- Strong understanding of the proposal, drug development and commercialization process and can work across therapeutic areas and company offerings.
- Advanced writer and editor with advanced ability to efficiently develop compelling graphics for both text and slide deliverables.
- Creative and strategic thinker to proficiently translate and distill complex technical information into client-friendly proposals.
- Strong organizational, time management, and problem-solving skills to efficiently handle the rapid pace of proposal development.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to effectively collaborate with and develop positive long-term relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
- Ability to train/mentor new employees.
Management Role:
No management responsibility
Working Conditions and Environment:
- High-paced or high-pressure environment
- Indoor environment
- Extended periods of computer work
- Frequent periods of intense concentration and attention to detail
- Works independently with little guidance or reliance on oral or written instructions and plans work schedules to meet goals
- Varied hours required occasionally
Physical Requirements:
- Frequently remaining seated to perform tasks
- 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 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.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Thermo Fisher Scientific and has not been reviewed or approved by Thermo Fisher Scientific.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a strong company 401(k) match and an employee stock purchase plan that add meaningful long‑term value. Feedback suggests these features stand out among core financial benefits even when base pay feels average.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage offers multiple national medical options alongside dental and vision, with company‑paid life and disability coverage. This breadth is considered a solid foundation even if some costs may not be the lowest among peers.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental and caregiver leave, backup care, adoption assistance, and specialized family resources are available. Feedback suggests these supports are a notable plus for colleagues managing family and caregiving needs.
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What We Do
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $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.
Why Work With Us
You will join a company which every colleague has the opportunity to create possibilities, for oneself, for our customers and patients. There is no more exciting place to be than at the forefront of solving problems which help improve lives around the world. As a company, we are committed to supporting your career aspirations and your journey.
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