Senior Manager Project Management PMO

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

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.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Proficiency in the key principles of cross-functional project management (ex: time, quality, cost)
• Strong financial acumen
• Experience with Lean Six Sigma, Agile and Scrum methodologies
• Familiar with formal change management processes and methods (Prosci or similar approach)
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to work across the organization and interact/influence/negotiate effectively at all levels
• Critical thinker with solid judgment and strong initiative
• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence collaboration across multiple and diverse groups
• Strong leadership and teamwork abilities
• Ability to work independently and be a creative and innovative problem solver
• Ability to delegate, effectively prioritize own and project team members workload
• Ability to effectively use automated systems and computerized applications such as Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel, Word, etc. and Visio
• Strong verbal and written communication, time management, and organizational skill

SUMMARIZED PURPOSE:

Takes charge of, oversees, and monitors multiple complex projects from initiation through delivery. Works cross-functionally to deliver project solutions within the constraints of scope, quality, time and cost. Establishes effective relationships as the liaison between the department and the business line customer to provide consultation, guidance and support to business requirements and ensure that all targets and deliverables are met.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Leads programs of related projects according to timelines, budget and quality standards.
• Manages activities of multiple cross-functional teams and collaborates to ensure project dependencies are identified and communicated.
• Produces and reviews project plans; assesses Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), resource loading, dependencies, and milestones.
• Develops and oversees project budgets, evaluates percentage complete, tracks actuals to budget and mitigates overspend, tunes resource model to adhere to budget guidelines.
• Ensures risks/issues are surfaced and mitigated, escalating thorough information as appropriate, and provides tracking to budget and timeline.
• Manages cross-project interdependencies in order to avoid potential impacts and identify optimizations in regards to scope, schedule, budget, and resource utilization.
• Mentors less experienced peers to identify and evaluate fundamental issues on the project.
• Reviews data on challenging issues, makes good business decisions, and ensures solutions are implemented.
• Ensures all project deliverables meet the customer’s time, quality, and cost expectations.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Proficiency in the key principles of cross-functional project management (ex: time, quality, cost)
• Strong financial acumen
• Experience with Lean Six Sigma, Agile and Scrum methodologies
• Familiar with formal change management processes and methods (Prosci or similar approach)
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to work across the organization and interact/influence/negotiate effectively at all levels
• Critical thinker with solid judgment and strong initiative
• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence collaboration across multiple and diverse groups
• Strong leadership and teamwork abilities
• Ability to work independently and be a creative and innovative problem solver
• Ability to delegate, effectively prioritize own and project team members workload
• Ability to effectively use automated systems and computerized applications such as Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel, Word, etc. and Visio
• Strong verbal and written communication, time management, and organizational skills