When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work, like helping customers in finding cures for cancer, protecting the environment or making sure our food is safe. Your work will have real-world impact, and you’ll be supported in achieving your career goals.

How will you make an impact?

This position will operate as an internal consultant within the procurement team and across a global manufacturing network to ensure successful program delivery. The role, in conjunction with relevant business partners and key stakeholders, will lead and deliver large, complex initiatives that identify, design, and implement novel business solutions for pharma manufacturing and development network. The role will lead project planning, business case development, management and budgeting; mobilize and manage distributed project teams; identify key stakeholders; define deliverable structure and content; facilitate buy-in of proposed solutions business unit and site leadership and site operations; direct on-time, quality delivery of work products; manage implementation economics, risk and communications.

What will you do?

• Manage projects with well-documented and organized project management skills to problem solve and support enterprise and functional objectives.
• Develop and deliver executive-level presentations to propose key initiatives, provide critical implementation updates, operational line-of-sight, and demonstrate delivery of value within the organization.
• Work with key stakeholders in order to achieve key milestones on time and within plan, develop relationships within the company to complete assigned projects.
• Lead analysis to identify value and business case development, through financial and options analysis, identification of required milestones and deliverables, implementation plan and resources required to achieve and ensure projects add value to the organization.
• Apply consistent project management approaches and processes, identify and report roadblocks and variances to project plan, ensure projects are on schedule and achieve stated objectives. Coordinate with team members to identify and document resource constraints.
• Lead global, cross-functional, geographically distributed teams to achieve desired outcomes.
• Identify key risks and the impact of those risks on the project and through scenario planning.
• Track and monitor timely completion of project milestones within the portfolio, plan vs. actual and report that progress as required.

How will you get here?

• Bachelors and/or Master’s degree in finance, engineering or science. MBA desirable.
• Robust project management skills and capabilities (Gantt charts, dashboards, key deliverables, business case and baseline development)

• Pharmaceutical industry preferred
• Exceptional analytical, financial modeling and problem-solving skills
• Ability to efficiently organize forums and coordinate communication with team members
• Excellent communication skills for structuring ideas in a clear and concise manner
• Strong proficiency in MS-Office tools (specifically, MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Demonstrated ability to make recommendations on and deliver assigned projects
• Ability to work independently, within a team, and collaboratively across teams
• Ability to lead matrix project teams of peers and other stakeholders and ability to work well within a matrix environment
• Solid Financial acumen
• Multi-tasking skills and planning for prioritizing personal workload
• Able to manage change effectively and frequently
• Experience within a pharmaceutical/cGMP, manufacturing environments
• Ability to travel between 25-50% on an annual basis

This position has been approved to provide relocation assistance

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue exceeding $25 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies or increasing productivity in their laboratories, we are here to support them. Our global team of more than 75,000 colleagues delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services and Patheon. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.