[Hiring] Manager, Project Management - Central Lab @Thermo Fisher Scientific

Role 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.

This is a fully remote role supporting our Global Central Laboratories. We welcome applicants from all locations within the US. Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship. Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, which includes a drug screening.

As a Manager of Project Management, you’ll lead and develop a team of project managers while driving the successful delivery of global central laboratory studies. You’ll take ownership of complex studies, ensuring timelines, budgets, quality, and execution are delivered from startup through closeout.

You’ll serve as a key point of contact for sponsors, building strong client relationships, managing expectations, and proactively identifying and mitigating risks. Working cross-functionally and with external vendors, you’ll ensure seamless coordination across all aspects of study delivery.

You’ll also play a critical role in shaping how work gets done by guiding project strategy, resolving escalations, and identifying opportunities to improve processes, scalability, and overall efficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic/vocational qualification
• Previous experience provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 5+ years)
• 1+ year of leadership responsibility
• 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

Requirements

• Manage and motivate project management staff
• Recruits, trains, develops, and assesses employees' performance
• Write, evaluate, amend and deploy procedures and SOPs in global alignment
• Monitors SOP and key task compliance
• Serve as chief liaison between sponsor and all PPD internal departments
• Controls, manages and delegates day-to-day activities during the clinical trial
• Conducts regular face-to-face client meetings and continuously addresses client concerns
• Manage client and/or program level oversight and relationship
• Establish and advocate high-level customer service for clients and programs
• Plans and supports workflow of team members
• Perform as a mentor and trainer
• Author, review, revise and implement relevant procedural documents
• Serve as a back-up for the Associate Director PM, when needed

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Strong verbal, written and presentation skills
• Solid Microsoft Office skills for analysis and presentation of data
• Critical thinking skills to support quality decision making
• Advanced knowledge of project management theories, principles and best practices relating to lab operations
• Strong attention for detail orientation and compliance with procedures and policies
• Effective client relationship management skills
• Strong supervisory and management skills with ability to work effectively at all levels
• Proficient in problem solving and prioritizing
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills
• Ability to multi-task and handle pressure

Working Environment

• Able to communicate, receive, and understand information and ideas with diverse groups of people
• 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

Benefits

• Collaborate with industry-leading experts
• Contribute to groundbreaking clinical research
• Grow within an environment that values innovation, accountability, and continuous development