Sr Staff R&D Project Manager

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

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.

Location: Greenville NC

Discover Impactful Work:

The Program Manager provides governance across the product life cycle for strategic programs to ensure timely delivery and successful program execution. This role maintains program commitments, timelines and customer relationships, with a focus on delivering an excellent customer experience through creative problem solving and cross-functional teamwork.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leads and communicates end-to-end program health providing one source of clear, accurate communication
• Lead strategic operational aspects of strategic projects / programs with the customer and project management teams to ensure timely, coordinated, risk mitigated delivery of projects and services.
• Coordinate site-wide resources to provide comprehensive solutions, based on the entire product and services portfolio across the site.
• Internal and external lead for Program Joint Steering Committee and executive level report outs, overall collation assessment monitoring of actions, business performance metrics and targets.
• Lead and facilitate program issues, risk mitigation and solution escalation process, serving as a liaison with Site Leadership to ensure effective solution/resolution.
• Responsible for maintaining coordinated program timelines and product life-cycle oversight.
• Holds teams accountable to stage gate process and weekly/monthly/quarterly reviews.
• Supports the organization through deployment of standard tools and practices.

How will you do it?

Education/Experience

• B.S. in Science/Engineering or related field relevant to role required.
• Masters of Business Administration (MBA) preferred. 
• CDMO highly preferred.
• 5+ years  experience in the pharmaceutical industry and 1+ years experience in Project or Program Management.

Knowledge/Skills

• Proven knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturing and outsourcing, including use of SOPs required by Quality standards.
• Outstanding client service orientation, interpersonal skills and business insight.
• Demonstrated project management experience, with strong analytical and organizational skills to handle contending priorities in a fast paced environment.
• Knowledge of site functions and a deep understanding of the relationships and processes requiring integration among departments within the business.
• Ability to optimally use a range of influencing and leadership styles, situationally dependent.
• Ability to assess situations and make clear timely decisions, achieving results that support all parties.