Project Manager II
Thermo Fisher
Summary
Join our collaborative team at Thermo Fisher Scientific as a Project Manager II, where you'll lead important initiatives that help make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. In this role, you'll oversee complex projects from initiation through successful delivery, ensuring effective execution and stakeholder satisfaction. You'll coordinate cross-functional teams, manage resources and timelines, and implement process improvements while maintaining the highest quality standards.
Job description
Discover Impactful Work
Join our collaborative team at Thermo Fisher Scientific as a Project Manager II, where you'll lead important initiatives that help make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. In this role, you'll oversee complex projects from initiation through successful delivery, ensuring effective execution and stakeholder satisfaction. You'll coordinate cross-functional teams, manage resources and timelines, and implement process improvements while maintaining the highest quality standards.
Day in the Life
- Manage multiple client projects, including strategic accounts, ensuring project deliverables and financial milestones are executed in accordance with required timelines.
- Serve as the primary relationship manager for a portfolio of projects, driving communication for successful business delivery and exemplary client service.
- Lead and facilitate risk mitigation and issue escalation process through coordination of internal resources, serving as a liaison with Site Leadership.
- Act as the internal client advocate, leading regular and ad hoc customer meetings, internal team meetings, site visits, and Business Review meetings for assigned accounts.
- Responsible for account management of assigned clients/portfolios, including changes of scope, project expansion and commercial life cycle management.
- Manage SOR forecast, attainment of financial goals and KPI metrics for project portfolio.
- Ensure client and Thermo Fisher Scientific are operating in compliance with the contractual requirements (accruals, bill backs, service charges, etc.).
- Utilize MySupply, SmartSheet and other tools to measure project performance, monitor progress, identify and quantify variances, perform corrective actions and communicate to all stakeholders.
- Serve as the liaison between Pharmaceutical Development Services (PDS) and Drug Product Services (DPS) management to coordinate the introduction of new products from the PDS pipeline.
- Work with PMO and local team to continuously improve PM and project delivery practices.
- Support global PMO or PDS initiatives.
- Provide feedback to Functional Leadership on project team member performance.
Keys to Success
- Bachelor's degree in relevant scientific or engineering field with minimum 2 years related industry experience (pharmaceutical development experience an advantage).
- Preferred Fields of Study: Engineering, Sciences, Business or related field.
- Minimum 2 years of Project Management experience in a GMP environment.
- PMP certification preferred.
- Experience working with external clients preferred.
- Well organized with ability to prioritize multiple tasks.
- Strong interpersonal skills with ability to motivate others.
- Proficiency using MS Office applications.
- Ability to make and meet commitments.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Demonstrated commitment to our fundamental principles of Integrity, Respect, & Excellence.
- Client interface experience and strong negotiating skills.
- Proficiency with English language.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in relevant scientific or engineering field
- Minimum 2 years related industry experience
- Minimum 2 years of Project Management experience in a GMP environment
- Well organized with ability to prioritize multiple tasks
- Strong interpersonal skills with ability to motivate others
- Proficiency using MS Office applications
- Ability to make and meet commitments
- Strong attention to detail
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Client interface experience and strong negotiating skills
- Proficiency with English language
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship
- Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check including drug screening
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Retirement Savings Plan
- Tuition Reimbursement
Company overview
Thermo Fisher Scientific is a global leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. The company provides a comprehensive portfolio of analytical instruments, equipment, reagents and consumables, software, and services for research, analysis, discovery, and diagnostics. Their mission is to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer by accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies, and increasing laboratory productivity. Thermo Fisher serves pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions, and government agencies worldwide. The company operates through four business segments: Life Sciences Solutions, Analytical Instruments, Specialty Diagnostics, and Laboratory Products and Services.