Director of IT Solutions – Procurement, Sustainability, Legal & Compliance
Thermo Fisher Scientific
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Waltham • California, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $176,000 - $234,700 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- The Director oversees a team responsible for technology roadmaps, program execution, and delivering secure and scalable solutions
- Foster relationships: Build strong partnerships with essential business partners and diverse teams to align on IT systems strategy and your tasks
- Show leadership and influence to achieve agreement and a common vision
- Foster trust-centered partnerships with business managers to harmonize technology ventures with strategic organizational goals
- Engage with infrastructure teams to scope, acquire, and deploy vital hardware and software
- Monitor critical metrics, progress, and outcomes, proactively manage risks, issues, and dependencies
- Define and uphold strong support frameworks for all applications in the portfolio
- Manage vendor relationships to improve value to the business
- Deliver hands-on leadership by mentoring, managing performance, and determining staffing.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, STEM, or related field
- 7+ years of experience leading and implementing IT systems and platforms
- 5–10+ years of program management experience; 3–5 years of business partnership exposure with senior leadership
- Demonstrated skill in guiding cross-functional, international teams to achieve strategic results
- Robust leadership in guiding, performance oversight, and team enhancement
- Inclusive leadership style fostering collaboration and issue resolution
- Excellent communication, executive presence, and attention to detail
- Solid understanding of software application costs, risks, and architecture
- Self-motivated individuals who can establish goals and influence collaborators
- Demonstrates strong business and financial competence.
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
IT systemsprogram managementsoftware application architecturerisk managementperformance oversightvendor managementtechnology roadmapsscalable solutionsmetrics monitoringhardware deployment
Soft skills
leadershipinfluencecollaborationcommunicationattention to detailtrust-buildingmentoringteam enhancementproblem-solvinggoal setting
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in computer scienceBachelor’s degree in STEMBachelor’s degree in related field