Job Description

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) 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 sophisticated analytical challenges, growing efficiency in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics, or developing and manufacturing life-changing therapies, we are here to support them! Our colleagues across the globe deliver an outstanding 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.

Location/Division: Waltham, MA, Carlsbad, CA or Pittsburgh, PA Corporate Legal and Audit Services Division

How will you make an impact?

• The Director, Healthcare Compliance Counsel is a new and important role reporting to the Vice President and Lead Counsel, Specialty Diagnostics Group. They will lead all aspects of the group healthcare compliance function and be the primary point of contact providing advice, mentorship, and contractual and regulatory interpretation! The individual will lead and expand the healthcare compliance program by:

• Minimizing risk by partnering with the relevant functional areas (finance marketing, medical affairs, regulatory) to craft, coordinate, and embed relevant controls into the businesses to ensure efficiencies, such as writing policies and procedures.

• Partner with the relevant functions (finance, audit, etc.) to ensure periodic risk-based monitoring and auditing assessments of process controls are performed; provide leadership and guidance related to the implementation of corrective action plans as vital and engage business leadership by providing insightful data-driven reports of assessment findings.

• Build healthcare compliance educational programs to drive a deeper understanding of pertinent federal and state laws and regulations, as well as Thermo Fisher’s Code of Business Ethics and Healthcare Code of Conduct across the organization, while elevating colleagues' healthcare compliance sophistication.

• Lead, oversee and support the investigation of business ethics incidents, and transactional monitoring into reported healthcare compliance concerns or any allegations of healthcare compliance misconduct, as required.

• Collaborate cross-functionally through building effective relationships with key representatives in Group Functions, Commercial, Sales, Medical Affairs, Audit, Operations, and business and regional Legal teams to help drive efficient practices and consistency with internal policies and processes.

• Mentor and empower business partners, including commercial and regional legal counsels to become influencers and healthcare compliance advocates, and help coordinate training for commercial teams within the healthcare businesses and provide first-line healthcare compliance advice.

• Oversee and lead Thermo Fisher’s global Open Payments/Sunshine transparency reporting requirements.

How will you get here?

Education

Juris Doctorate required; member in good standing with State Bar

Experience

• Minimum of 8-10 years of healthcare and legal compliance experience at a law firm or in-house supporting global organizations within healthcare-regulated industries (e.g., medical device, pharma, life sciences).

• Knowledge of: (1) anti-kickback and false claims laws; (2) transactional and compliance reporting laws and regulations; (3) Federal Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act promotional requirements; and (4) global transparency laws; required.

• Experience developing and implementing one or more elements of a compliance program, including Open Payments transparency reporting requirements and systems.

• Proven experience driving legal compliance solutions; strong project and process management capabilities desired.

• Ability to influence without formal authority while working cross-functionally and collaboratively within a highly matrixed environment comprised of US and global team members desired.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Self-motivated, requires minimal direction to meet goals and objectives under required timelines, strong analytical ability and interpersonal skills.

• Strong oral and written communication skills.

• Must possess excellent organizational skills and work ethic, be meticulous and produce high-level, quality work-product.

Compensation and Benefits

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs

• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement

• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy

• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan

• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards