Thermo Fisher Scientific

Senior Staff Project Manager

Thermo Fisher Scientific

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Carlsbad • California, Massachusetts, New York, Tennessee • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $118,100 - $180,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

PMP

About the role

  • Own end-to-end success of projects/programs/portfolios, ensuring accountability, and execution of timelines to deliver timely results
  • Ensure that all project/program/portfolios are delivered within scope and budget
  • Develop project/program/portfolio scopes and objectives, involving all relevant cross-functional collaborators and ensure resource availability and allocation
  • Identify key issues and risks, recommend options which are supported by a clear fact set and analysis, facilitate and drive individual and team decisions
  • Develop detailed plans to supervise progress and maintain action logs
  • Lead project execution to ensure the effective deployment of standard project management tools
  • Measure performance using appropriate systems, tools, and techniques
  • Build and maintain comprehensive documentation and prepare reports for executive leadership
  • Challenge existing processes
  • Effectively work together with individuals across all hierarchies within a complexly structured business

Requirements

  • Bachelors’ Degree in Science/Technical/Business field
  • PMP certification is a plus
  • 8+ years of project/program management and team leadership experience with a solid track record in successfully leading projects/programs from start to finish
  • Life Science, Biotech or Pharmaceutical expertise required.
  • Experience leading large, sophisticated projects/programs with minimal mentorship spanning over 12+ months
  • Experience managing budgets (CAPEX & OPEX) over $3M
  • Experience managing projects/program return $5M+ of benefit back to the business
  • Ability to collaborate with diverse audiences, including senior leadership, and effectively navigate in a matrix environment
  • Ability to manage multiple global projects/programs (3+) and interface effectively with team members and across multiple departments, regions, and countries
  • Solid understanding of formal project management methodologies
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is a plus
  • Meaningful experience with Lean / Six Sigma experience in an industrial environment
Benefits
  • 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

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
project managementbudget managementscope developmentrisk analysisperformance measurementdocumentationLeanSix Sigma
Soft skills
leadershipcollaborationdecision makingcommunicationproblem solving
Certifications
PMP certification