Senior Project Manager US East CoastCentral Region

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Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team youll 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 worlds toughest challenges like protecting the environment making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

DESCRIPTION:
Plan and execute cross-functional projects that drive the digital transformation of the PPD clinical research business of Thermo Fisher Scientifics commercial organization. Responsible for day-to-day project management from discovery to launch according to time cost and quality standards. Partners with cross-functional global teams to deliver measurable impact aligned with strategic objectives.

Major Job Responsibilities:

• Manage a range of complex projects that span one or multiple lines of business with a focus on digital transformation of the commercial organization.
• Own end-to-end project success (from discovery to launch) delivering on-time quantitative and qualitative results according to timelines budget and quality standards.
• Collaborate with business teams to develop business cases of proposed ideas including project scope and objectives return on investment (ROI) measurements and benefits.
• Develop detailed project plans including timelines resources and action logs.
• Plan and manage project timelines budgets and resources.
• Provide leadership of the project team by effectively collaborating communicating and motivating team members to meet project goals and adhere to their responsibilities and project milestones.
• Challenge the current thought process of team members and status quo of business processes.
• Manage vendor and technology partner relationships as needed.
• Identify and handle interdependencies risks issues and actions facilitating decision-making related to complexities through effective risk management strategies and escalating as appropriate.
• Provide status reporting regarding project milestones deliverables dependencies risks issues and success metrics communicating across all organizational levels including senior leadership.
• Drive adoption of digital solutions proactively incorporating change management into project plans from the start.
• Create and deliver user training and communications in collaboration with the Commercial Enablement and Effectiveness and Communications teams.
• Actively contribute to commercial processes and guidance documents.
• Mentor and coach junior team members.

Qualifications:

Education and Experience:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic/vocational qualification.
• Previous experience that provides the knowledge skills and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 8 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.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Project management certification preferred (e.g. PMP Agile).
• Change management certification preferred (e.g. ProSci).
• Excellence in managing cross-functional projects with little oversight (e.g. time quality cost). Digital/AI project management experience preferred.
• Expertise in various technological systems (e.g. SharePoint automation technologies generative artificial intelligence AI).
• Expertise in commercial processes (e.g. marketing proposals business development) with commercial experience in the CRO industry preferred.
• Superior written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong financial acumen.
• Excellent interpersonal organizational and influence skills and problem-solving ability with ability to interact and build relationships with individuals at all levels including senior leadership and across different departments and time zones.
• Strong ability to manage multiple projects and priorities with effective judgment and decision-making skills assessing situations to determine the importance urgency and risks and meeting deadlines with a quality product.
• Willingness to learn and develop applying feedback provided from supervisors and from project stakeholders.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Excellent business maturity and professionalism.
• Superior use and knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite.

Working Conditions and Environment:

• Work is performed in an office environment with exposure to electrical office equipment.
• Exposure to high pressure intense concentration needed.
• Must pay constant attention to detail-visual mental.
• Must be able to multitask constantly.
• Frequent interaction with associates required.
• Long varied hours required occasionally.
• Travel required on rare occasions.

Physical Requirements:

• 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 multitask.
• Regular and consistent attendance.

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

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