Director, Project Management

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

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?

The Director of Project Management provides project leadership across FSD for high-priority, complex and cross-functional initiatives across the business. This role is accountable for overall project portfolio performance including prioritization, resource management, financial achievement and is a liaison for divisional/functional management and other all partners. The Leader will perform continuous analysis and monitoring of the project portfolio to identify and communicate issues, risks and opportunities for improvement to FSD leadership. The Leader will also be responsible for leading cross-functional projects and programs with diverse internal teams ranging from Commercial, Operations, Supply Chain, Product Management, Finance, Engineering, Information Technology, Human Resources, and Customer Excellence.

The role works closely with the FSD Leadership team, Project Managers, Project Sponsors, Commercial, Finance and all other stakeholders to continually improve project execution and ensure project investments are prioritized, managed and delivered successfully.

What will you do?

• Portfolio Oversight and Governance

  • Establish project governance for program updates and review with appropriate levels of management
  • Interface with management to coordinate priorities, communications, and integrate project management as a main feature within functions and projects
  • Participate in the evaluation and feasibility process for potential projects
  • Review project inter-dependencies for use in articulating trade-offs with prioritization decisions
  • Constantly improve and adapt portfolio and project management methodologies

• Project Execution

  • Drive use of BPG’s Project Management methodology and framework throughout projects
  • Own end to end success of the projects and programs, ensuring accountability, execution of timelines, and continuous change management to deliver on-time results
  • Facilitate resolution to escalated issues and risks
  • Develop detailed project/program/portfolio plans to track progress and action logs
  • Develop and lead the execution of change management plans, including functional training and internal/external communications
  • Identify key issues and risks, recommend options which are supported by a clear fact set and analysis, facilitate and negotiate individual and team decisions. Requires an understanding of stakeholder motivations, impacts to the organization, and when to escalate issues to higher levels of management
  • Effectively influence all levels of stakeholders in highly matrixed organization
  • Support resource measurement/time tracking for business and functional resources assigned to projects

• Lead the FSD PMO Organization

  • Oversee the Project Management Office and direct reports
  • Manage direct reports and contractor PM’s, including performance reviews, work assignments and time management
  • Responsible for developing, motivating staff members, and providing guidance on all elements for successful project execution
  • Consistently demonstrate high standards of integrity by supporting the Thermo Fisher Scientific mission and 4i Values
  • Lead cultural change of project management

How will you get here?

• Bachelor’s degree in science/technical/business discipline with significant Project Management experience

• 8+ years of project/program management experience with successful project management and execution of large cross functional projects and programs

• Strong understanding of formal project management methodologies

• Strong analytical and project management skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret business needs and translate them into sound project solutions

• Ability to influence at a senior level without direct authority. Identifies problems, answers questions, gain cooperation of others and implement efficient solutions

• Experience managing large project/program/portfolio budgets

• Experience with managing direct reports

• Ability to interface with varied audiences including senior leadership, influence, and to work effectively in a matrix environment across many functional areas (product management, R&D, finance, commercial, operations, HR, etc.)

• Ability to manage multiple global projects/programs and interface effectively with team members and across multiple departments, regions, and countries

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is a plus

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Ability to work with and present at all levels of the organization.

• Strong familiarity with project management standards and methodologies including PMI Body of Knowledge