Sr IT Project Manager

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.
Our PPD® Laboratory Services team has a direct impact on improving patient health through the expertise of scientists, industry thought-leaders and therapeutic experts. As the world leader in serving science, our laboratory professionals bring their commitment to accuracy and quality to deliver groundbreaking innovations.

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 8+ years, including experience managing projects through all aspects of a project life cycle and experience in Six Sigma, COBIT, ITIL, or other QMS frameworks).
• Project management certification
  In some cases an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES

• Highly skilled level of proficiency in the key principles of cross-functional project management (ex: time, quality, cost)
• Excellent financial acumen
• Proven track record of demonstrated project management skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to work across the organization and interact/influence/negotiate effectively at all levels
• Critical thinking skills with solid judgment and strong initiative
• Provides outstanding leadership/influence and collaboration across multiple and diverse groups
• Ability to delegate and 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.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, time management and organizational skills
• Seasoned in managing geographically distributed teams
• Familiar with formal change management processes and methods (Prosci or similar approach)

• Work is performed in an office environment with exposure to electrical office equipment.
• Occasional drives to site locations with occasional travel both domestic and international