Project Manager, Large Projects CMD Commercial

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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:
At Thermo Fisher Scientific youll manage complex strategic projects that make a meaningful impact on our mission to enable customers to make the world healthier cleaner and safer. As Sr Project Manager youll guide successful execution of important initiatives across functions ensuring timely delivery risk mitigation and stakeholder alignment. Youll manage multiple high-priority projects simultaneously coordinating cross-functional teams through the complete project lifecycle while maintaining focus on business objectives and quality standards. Your expertise will be instrumental in implementing process improvements new technologies and transformational changes that enhance operational efficiency and customer success.

Project Manager Large Projects

Administrative Project Management Focus

Position Summary

The Project Manager Large Projects is responsible for the administrative coordination governance documentation tracking and reporting required to support large complex projects. This role ensures that project information is organized timelines are visible actions are tracked risks and issues are documented and stakeholders have accurate information to support decision-making.

This role does not own solution design deployment strategy customer adoption operational readiness or business execution. Instead the Project Manager provides the structure cadence documentation and administrative discipline needed to keep large projects organized and transparent.

This is an individual contributor role that works closely with project sponsors workstream owners Solution Deployment Leaders commercial teams operations finance legal quality supply chain digital and other stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

Project Administration and Coordination

• Maintain project plans timelines milestones action trackers decision logs risk logs issue logs and dependency trackers.
• Coordinate project meetings governance forums steering committee reviews and stakeholder update sessions.
• Prepare meeting agendas capture minutes document decisions and follow up on assigned actions.
• Ensure project documentation is complete current organized and accessible to appropriate stakeholders.
• Support consistent use of project templates tools trackers and reporting formats.

Governance Support

• Support project governance by maintaining meeting cadence escalation records approval documentation and decision history.
• Track required approvals sign-offs stage gates and governance checkpoints.
• Ensure project sponsors and workstream owners have accurate information for reviews and decisions.
• Maintain visibility to open decisions overdue actions unresolved issues and upcoming milestones.
• Help ensure governance processes are followed consistently across large projects.

Timeline and Milestone Tracking

• Maintain the master project timeline based on input from workstream owners and accountable business leads.
• Track progress against milestones deliverables and agreed due dates.
• Identify and flag timeline variances overdue items and dependency gaps for review by accountable owners.
• Consolidate updates from multiple workstreams into a single project view.
• Support visibility to critical path items without owning execution of the underlying work.

Reporting and Communication Support

• Prepare project status reports dashboards executive summaries and stakeholder updates.
• Consolidate inputs from workstream owners deployment leaders finance operations commercial teams and other functions.
• Ensure project reports clearly reflect status milestones risks issues decisions needed and next steps.
• Maintain accurate records of project communications and leadership updates.
• Support consistent and timely information flow across project stakeholders.

Risk Issue and Action Tracking

• Maintain risk issue action and dependency logs.
• Document risk descriptions issue status owners target dates mitigation updates and escalation history.
• Follow up with accountable owners to obtain updates and closure status.
• Flag overdue actions unresolved issues or missing information to project sponsors or designated leads.
• Support escalation documentation but does not own resolution of technical operational commercial or deployment issues.

Budget and Resource Administration

• Track project budget information purchase orders invoices resource assumptions and financial updates as directed by finance or project sponsors.
• Consolidate budget and resource inputs for project reporting.
• Maintain documentation related to project spend approvals forecasts and financial decisions.
• Support administrative coordination of vendor documentation contracts statements of work and related records.
• Flag missing financial information pending approvals or budget variances for review by accountable owners.

Documentation and Records Management

• Maintain organized project repositories files version control and document naming standards.
• Ensure key project documents approvals meeting records reports and governance materials are stored appropriately.
• Support audit readiness by maintaining clear records of decisions approvals risks changes and status updates.
• Capture lessons learned and archive project materials at project close.
• Support continuous improvement of project administration tools templates and documentation practices.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in business operations project management life sciences engineering or related field preferred.
• Experience supporting large projects complex initiatives project management offices commercial operations business operations or administrative project coordination.
• Strong skills in project documentation meeting coordination status reporting action tracking and records management.
• Ability to consolidate information from multiple stakeholders into clear accurate project updates.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines documents trackers and reporting cycles.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency with project management collaboration reporting and productivity tools.
• Ability to work in a matrixed organization and follow up with stakeholders across functions and levels.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting large customer commercial operational supply chain digital or transformation projects.
• Experience in life sciences pharmaceutical biopharma healthcare diagnostics laboratory manufacturing or regulated environments.
• Familiarity with project governance PMO practices stage-gate processes and executive reporting.
• Experience with tools such as Microsoft Project Smartsheet Excel PowerPoint SharePoint Teams Power BI CRM ERP or similar platforms.
• Understanding of budget tracking purchase order processes vendor documentation or contract administration.
• Project management certification or training preferred but not required.

Key Competencies

• Project administration
• Documentation management
• Meeting coordination
• Status reporting
• Timeline tracking
• Action-item follow-up
• Risk and issue logging
• Governance support
• Records management
• Attention to detail
• Stakeholder follow-up
• Tool and tracker discipline

Scope and Impact

The Project Manager Large Projects is an individual contributor role focused on the administrative management of large complex projects. The role supports project transparency governance discipline documentation quality leadership visibility and timely follow-up.

The role does not own solution deployment customer adoption operational readiness business execution technical solution design or commercial strategy. Accountability for those activities remains with designated business owners Solution Deployment Leaders Solution Architects commercial leaders and functional teams.

Travel Requirements

Limited travel may be required for project meetings governance sessions workshops or site-based coordination.

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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