[Hiring] Program Manager II @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.

Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

Location/Division Specific Information

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.

Discover Impactful Work:

• Provides tactical support for client-facing projects.
• Manages and supports project performance with specific emphasis on financial management of the program and progressive responsibility for client communications.
• Provides internal consulting on project management issues and identifies opportunities for process and efficiency improvement.
• Identifies and escalates risks identified to project timelines and meeting financial objectives for both internal goals and client expectations.

A Day in the Life:

• Provides oversight and coordination of study initiation.
• Understands protocol language and translates to internal systems and processes.
• Prepares for and facilitates internal meetings; attends external meetings.
• Coordinates stability launches.
• Maintains project set-up and sample test scheduling.
• Evaluates and manages project timelines and deliverables.
• Understands and adheres to contract language, support contract management process.
• Manages project setup and financials.
• Responsible for projections, forecast and revenue recognition for fee for service, hourly or FTE programs, adhering to client budgets and utilization targets, adjusting forecasts or project priority weekly as necessary; communicate routine FTE utilization and spend.
• Progressive responsibility for internal and external communications, beginning with project financial coordination.
• Assists client relationship manager with meeting minutes and action items to support client projects.
• Manages study documents and testing directives, shares data/reports.
• Supports fee for service and hourly contract review processes.
• Provides/Supports training of Program Manager I.
• Involvement in cross-functional initiatives/process improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic/vocational qualification.
• Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 3+ years) or equivalent combination of education, training, & experience.

Requirements

• Strong verbal, written and presentation skills.
• Superior time management, planning, and organizational skills.
• Competent with specific computers and enterprise applications, including office productivity.
• Proven analytical skills.
• Demonstrated compliance with procedures and policies.
• Ability to perform multiple tasks effectively in a stressful environment.
• Ability to work effectively with multi-level teams.

Work Environment

• 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.)

Benefits

• Competitive remuneration.
• Annual incentive plan bonus.
• Healthcare.
• A range of employee benefits.
• Employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization.
• Outstanding career and development prospects.
• An exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!