JOB DESCRIPTION

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.
Our Project Delivery colleagues within our PPD® clinical research services direct, coordinate and manage the technical and operational aspects of projects, securing the successful completion of clinical trials. This includes collaborating with functional area leads to identify and evaluate fundamental issues on the project and to ensure that solutions are implemented. Project Delivery is vital to helping our customers deliver life-changing therapies.
Through our global team, you may engage in diverse initiatives and projects, or be part of a virtual international project team gaining cross-cultural experience.

DISCOVER IMPACTFUL WORK:

We are seeking a number of roles as Director, Project Management in our Oversight Team. This role will be hired at AD, D, or Sr D level depending on experience). These roles are for the EMEA region and can be fully remote, office or hybr.
These positions sit in our Cardio/General Medicine (CVGM) Team.

These require recent demonstrated experience working with full service clinical trials specifically within areas of expertise as follows (Please outline this experience in your submittal):

• Cardiovascular, GI, (UC/CD), Nephrology, Rare Disease, Diabetes, Obesity, Dyslipidemia Immunology, Dermatology and Woman’s Health (AD/D/SD levels).
• Cell & Gene Therapy or CAR-T , Immunology, RA, Biosimilars, GI, inclusive of UC/CD) (AD/D/SD levels)
• Nephrology, CKD, AKD, CAR-T and Rare Disease (SD level)

The Oversight AD/D/Sr D is accountable for strategic indication or client-specific portfolio management within a Therapeutic Unit. Provides therapeutic expertise in project delivery execution, demonstrating the ability to react quickly and appropriately to escalations. Provokes critical thinking in the Project Lead related to delivery operations, financial negotiations, and risk mitigations/issue management for a project. Drives the overall strategy development for proposals and pre-proposal opportunities.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification

EXPERIENCE

• Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 10-12+ years).
• 5+ years of management responsibility
• Proven leadership skills

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES

• Comprehensive therapeutic area knowledge, clinical development guidelines and directives and regulatory guidelines
• Expert knowledge of the key principles of cross functional project management (Time, Quality, Cost)
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills
• Demonstrated leadership and interpersonal skills including the ability to lead, motivate and coordinate cross-functional project teams
• Technical and systems competency, such as computer skills, to include effective use of systems and applications such as Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, as well as organization systems (CTMS, Preclarus, Clarity)
• Proven flexibility and ability to effectively prioritize workload and resources for project team members in a frequently changing environment
• Skilled in process improvement and strategic development, especially as it applies to clinical trials, clinical development and project management
• Ability to coach, mentor and lead global and/or cross-functional teams with a cultural awareness
• Strong financial acumen with an in-depth of knowledge and practical application of budgeting, forecasting and resource management
• Excellent customer service and relationship building skills with the ability to proactively address and prioritize expectations
• Strong executive presence and business acumen
• Advanced negotiation and marketing skills with ability to influence others and drive results
• Proactive, solutions oriented and skilled at risk management
• Excellent judgment, decision making and problem-solving skills and proven ability to apply critical and analytical strategic thinking skills to manage complex/ambiguous situations
• Ability to drive corporate strategies to capture, engage and retain repeat customers

• Able to communicate, receive, and understand information and ideas with diverse groups of people in a comprehensible and reasonable manner.
• Able to work upright and stationary for typical working hours.
• Ability to use and learn standard office equipment and technology with proficiency.
• Able to perform successfully under pressure while prioritizing and handling multiple projects or activities.
• May require travel. (Recruiter will provide more details.