Project Manager III (Analytical Services Division) - US, East Coast/Central Region

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 Project Manager III (PM) will provide end-to-end project management leadership (concept to completion) on the ASD Strategic Commercial Operations team. The Project Manager will lead Commercial projects with diverse internal teams to meet business objectives and metrics. In this role, the PM will partner with Project Sponsors to drive the execution of critical Commercial initiatives that span across the Analytical Services Division and business units. The successful PM will set-up and govern the overall schedule, communicate decision needs, control the budget, and report the progress of phases and major achievements.

What will you do?

- Be accountable for the success of the project, ensuring execution of timelines and continuous organizational change to deliver timely results
- Ensure that all projects are delivered within scope and budget
- Develop project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant cross-functional teams and ensure resource availability and allocation
- Identify key issues and risks, recommend options which are supported by a clear fact set and analysis, facilitate and broker individual and team decisions. Requires an understanding of team member motivations, impacts to the organization, and when to highlight issues to higher levels of management
- Develop detailed project plans to measure progress and celebrate achievements
- Lead project execution to ensure Project Management standards are deployed
- Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques
- Build and maintain comprehensive project documentation and prepare reports for leadership
- Experience with challenging the current thought process of staff and current state of business processes
- Influence project team members & project sponsor

How will you get here?

- Minimum of 5 years of project management experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and an advanced degree or equivalent work experience.
- This level requires applying knowledge of business practices, methodologies, and/or principles in the execution of short-term (1-2 years) functional deliverables or results.
- Preferred Fields of Study: Science, Engineering, Business Administration or related field
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent preferred; Six Sigma/Lean certification a plus
- Demonstrated expertise in project management methodologies, tools and best practices
- Ability to present to varied audiences including senior leadership and work efficiently in a matrix environment
- Ability to lead 2+ projects and partner with team members across different departments and domestic time zones
- Solid understanding of formal project management methodologies

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

- Ability to collaborate with peers at similar levels of the organization and report project status to Sponsors and team members
- Strong familiarity with project management practices and methodologies including PMI Body of Knowledge
- Effective oral and written communication and executive presentation skills
- Process oriented and structured working style and capable of balancing multiple projects simultaneously
- Well organized with the ability to deliver work to the highest standard
- Productive and collaborative contributor who can build strong professional relationships
- Conflict resolution and problem-solving skills, applying a focused approach to critical thought
- Strong interpersonal and organizational influence skills
- Strong attention to detail, time management