Project Manager

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

EDUCATION:

• Minimum required education: Bachelor of Science in relevant scientific field or education/work experience equivalent

EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in project management in the Life Sciences industry

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

• Team-oriented problem solver.
• Communicates to team and client based on strong understanding of needs.
• Proficient with technology.
• Enjoys fast-paced work environment.
• Organized, and prioritizes well.
• Interfaces well with external and internal customers.
• Experienced with smaller independent projects with ambition to eventually take on more.
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Project Management Skills:

• Independently manages a large, complex project portfolio , planning and delivering at all project stages.
• Structures project(s) in line with client strategy by demonstrating an entrepreneurial approach; optimizes processes to identify needs, defines resources requirements, tracks performance and identifies improvement opportunities.
• Proactively diagnoses project challenges and partners with cross functional teams to identify solutions that overcome undesirable situations and deliver positive outcomes.
• Develops methods to identify, monitor, and evaluate threats and consequences to completing specific project objectives and mentors other team members on project resolution.
• Pro-actively defines, tracks, and negotiates expenses, budgets, and revisions in response to project milestones and performance.
• Manages site capital projects including submittal and justification for Appropriation Requests and monthly capital reporting through SAP and Planview systems.
• Highly skilled at performing and interpreting client program requirements and communicating with cross functional team within Thermo Fisher to ensure program readiness at the site

Technical Knowledge:

• Demonstrates advanced technical capabilities and strong expertise in site processes, industry requirements, and problem solving.
• Manages project efficiently in different systems to provide accurate forecasting information to core team, leadership and the client. Maintains accountability for individual and team outcomes.
• Proactively advances the efficiency and effectiveness of work processes, procedures, and outputs

Project Management Skills:

• Independently manages a large, complex project portfolio , planning and delivering at all project stages.
• Structures project(s) in line with client strategy by demonstrating an entrepreneurial approach; optimizes processes to identify needs, defines resources requirements, tracks performance and identifies improvement opportunities.
• Proactively diagnoses project challenges and partners with cross functional teams to identify solutions that overcome undesirable situations and deliver positive outcomes.
• Develops methods to identify, monitor, and evaluate threats and consequences to completing specific project objectives and mentors other team members on project resolution.
• Pro-actively defines, tracks, and negotiates expenses, budgets, and revisions in response to project milestones and performance.
• Manages site capital projects including submittal and justification for Appropriation Requests and monthly capital reporting through SAP and Planview systems.
• Highly skilled at performing and interpreting client program requirements and communicating with cross functional team within Thermo Fisher to ensure program readiness at the site.

Technical Knowledge:

• Demonstrates advanced technical capabilities and strong expertise in site processes, industry requirements, and problem solving.
• Manages project efficiently in different systems to provide accurate forecasting information to core team, leadership and the client. Maintains accountability for individual and team outcomes.
• Proactively advances the efficiency and effectiveness of work processes, procedures, and outputs.

Project Management Leadership:

• Collaborates well and builds effective business relationships with various colleagues while fostering teamwork.
• Creates SMART objectives and forms a realistic action roadmap with timelines.
• Brings new or alternative perspectives forward to overcome difficulty or uncertainty and build a coalition.
• Assumes the leadership role on projects as appropriate, manages and supports cross-functional teams to be successful, and strategically plans an effective and efficient timeline to be completed on time.