(Sr) Project Manager Infectious, Respiratory and Critical Care Diseases

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Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific youll 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.

Our Project Delivery colleagues within our PPD clinical research services direct coordinate and manage the technical and operational aspects of projects securing the successful completion of clinical trials. This includes collaborating with functional area leads to identify and evaluate fundamental issues on the project and to ensure that solutions are implemented. Project Delivery is vital to helping our customers deliver life-changing therapies.

Through our global team you may engage in diverse initiatives and projects or be part of a virtual international project team gaining cross-cultural experience.

We have a vacancy for a (Senior) Project Manager/Lead (Delivery) in our Respiratory Diseases Team. This role is for the EMEA region and is remote based. Respiratory experience is strongly preferable. Please provide study details in your application of this.

A day in the life:

The PL Is accountable for the overall delivery of the project (quality time cost) on behalf of the organization. Establishes and communicates customer expectations to the project team with minimal direction. Ensures that escalation pathways are adhered to internally and externally. Leads the cross-functional project team to meet or exceed deliverables. Manages project(s) of increasing complexity (such as but not limited to: multi-service multi-region/country therapeutic complexity financial scope).

• Serves as the primary contact and lead between the sponsor and the organization at the project level.

• On projects where the scope requires ensures clear delineation in responsibilities and communication pathways for secondary project leads (such as lead in a specific region lead for a specific vendor(s) or subset of delivery).

• Drives and owns the overall delivery of the cross-functional project (time cost quality).

• Ensures financial stewardship at a project level by demonstrating an intimate understanding of the contract resource alignment to budget management of Out of Scope activity drive the Con Mod process/negotiations and team execution to timelines.

• Establishes communicates and manages customer expectations to achieve optimal delivery during the project.

• Drives Risk Identification and Issue Resolution at project level (RBQM/RESOLVE).

• Ensures project team compliance with organization policies SOPs ICH- GCP regulatory and project specific requirements.

Keys to Success:

Education

• Bachelors 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 8 years).

• 5 years of management responsibility

• Proven leadership skills

Years of experience refers to typical years of related experience needed to gain the required knowledge skills and abilities necessary to perform the functions of the job. Years of experience are not to be used as the only determining factor in establishing the job class or making employment selection decisions.

Knowledge Skills Abilities

• Comprehensive therapeutic area knowledge clinical development guidelines and directives and regulatory guidelines .

• Experienced knowledge of the key principles of cross functional project management (Time Quality Cost).

• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills.

• Demonstrated leadership and interpersonal skills including the ability to lead motivate and coordinate cross-functional project teams.

• Technical and systems competency such as computer skills to include effective use of systems and applications such as Microsoft Outlook Word Excel and PowerPoint as well as organization systems (CTMS Preclarus Clarity).

• Proven flexibility and ability to effectively prioritize workload and resources for project team members in a frequently changing environment.

• Skilled in process improvement and strategic development especially as it applies to clinical trials clinical development and project management.

• Ability to coach mentor and lead global and/or cross-functional teams with a cultural awareness.

• Strong financial competence with an in-depth of knowledge and practical application of budgeting forecasting and resource management.

• Excellent customer service consultation and relationship building skills.

• Advanced negotiation and marketing skills with ability to influence others and drive results.

• Excellent judgment decision making and problem-solving skills and shown ability to apply criticaland analytical strategic thinking skills to handle complex/ambiguous situations.

• Proactive solutions oriented and skilled at risk identification and management.

• May require travel. (Recruiter will provide more details.)

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100000 colleagues we share a common set of values - Integrity Intensity Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research solve complex scientific challenges drive technological innovation and support patients in need.