Principal Specialist, Project Management – Risk & Opportunity
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PMP
Senior Staff Project Manager
Thermo Fisher Scientific
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Massachusetts, New York, Tennessee • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $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
- 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
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
project managementbudget managementscope developmentrisk analysisperformance measurementLeanSix Sigmadocumentationreport preparationcross-functional collaboration
Soft skills
leadershipaccountabilitydecision makingcommunicationcollaborationproblem solvingorganizational skillsadaptabilitynavigating complex environmentsfacilitation
Certifications
PMP certification
