Project Management Manager

Job Description 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.
How will you make an impact? As a Manager, Project Management for the Transplant Diagnostics division, this individual will be a leader in ensuring that the program management team achieves the goals and objectives of the business.
They will accomplish this by applying best practices and tools in program management with the goal of delivering high-quality in vitro diagnostic (IVD) products and value to the organization within the agreed-upon schedule, resources, and scope.
This includes assuring design control and long-term product manufacturability.
You will have a high degree of autonomy to achieve program goals! What will you do? Be responsible for the activities of all aspects involved in new product development to ensure a robust transfer from R&D to Manufacturing.
Effective and consistent communication of progress and challenges to all project partners, including the project core team, functional department managers/supervisors, site leaders, and extended team members.
Partner with R&D, Product Management, Technical Operations (Manufacturing Sciences and Engineering), and Manufacturing work centers to deliver highly reproducible products.
Collaborate with Finance, Marketing, and other business functions to develop project financial models and ensure commercial success of the newly developed products.
Establish, implement, maintain, and continually improve business impact analysis, risk assessments, incident response plans, emergency management plan, and business recovery plans.
Mentoring other project managers, providing feedback on performance, and partnering with employees to build personal development plans to improve skills.
Hiring, onboarding, and assigning project management resources as per business need.
How will you get here? Education: Minimum required education: Bachelor’s degree (preferably in life sciences or engineering) PMP certification a plus Experience: Minimum 4 years of people management experience required.
Minimum 4 years proven experience in developing life-science products as a project manager under design control, using a standard stage-gate process from conceptualization to launch.
Proven experience leading teams without direct authority.
Experience managing complex projects.
IVD experience highly preferred.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Outstanding written and verbal communication skills: Assertively and effectively articulates sophisticated concepts and ideas to broad audiences.
Strong interpersonal skills: Cultivates relationships across a matrixed organization to resolve discord thoughtfully.
Outstanding influencing skills: Gets things done and drives decisions without formal authority.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English Self-managing and self-motivating, able to prioritize tasks effectively to meet deadlines and expectations.
Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.
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Compensation and Benefits The salary range estimated for this position based in California is –.
This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy.
We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.
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colleagues and their families can count on, which includes: A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.
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retirement savings plan Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.
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