Staff Program Manager
Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Saint Louis, MO
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Independently manages a large, complex project portfolio or multiple client projects, planning and delivering at all project stages.
- Experience in the biopharmaceutical industry and working with external clients for contract manufacturing and development is strongly preferred.
- Structures project(s) in line with client strategy by demonstrating an entrepreneurial approach; optimizes processes to identify needs, defines resources requirements, tracks performance and identifies improvement opportunities.
- Develops methods to proactively identify, monitor, and evaluate project challenges and partners with cross functional teams to identify solutions and deliver positive outcomes. Mentors other team members on project resolution.
- Pro-actively defines, tracks, and negotiates expenses, budgets, and revisions in response to project milestones and performance.
- Highly skilled at performing and interpreting comprehensive need analyses which reflects the customer's target market and value proposition.
- Resolve project team issues and facilitate decision making within the team. Drive progress to completion to the required standard (both internally and with the customer).
- Communicate regularly with the business team, technical team, and customer team. Report on the initially agreed upon customer and internal achievements and share progress, issues, and risks.
- Demonstrates advanced technical capabilities and strong expertise in cGMP processing, industry requirements, and problem solving.
- Manages project efficiently in different systems to provide accurate forecasting information to core team, leadership and the client. Maintains Accountability for individual and team outcomes.
- Proactively advances the efficiency and effectiveness of work processes, procedures, and outputs.
- Solid understanding of financial analysis, forecasting, tracking, and reporting for projects vs. the allocated budgets.
- Collaborates well, builds effective business relationships and brings new or alternative perspectives forward to overcome difficulty or uncertainty and builds a coalition.
- Crafts S.M.A.R.T. objectives and forms a realistic action roadmap with timelines.
- Assumes the leadership role on projects as appropriate, manages and supports cross-functional teams to be successful, and strategically plans an effective and efficient timeline to be completed on time.
- Understands causal links between the Company's integrity policies and its value to the customer.
- Open to challenge and to be challenged on ideas and opinions as part of a collaborative decision making process.
- Education and Experience: BS degree in a relevant scientific area with 8 years experience in project management. Higher education (Graduate degree, MBA) is highly desired with 6 years of experience. Equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant work experience may be considered.
- Certification: PMP certification or similar preferred
- Should possess working knowledge of pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical product lifecycles with experience managing development and/or commercial manufacturing programs.
- This position requires someone with good technical, excellent organizational and time management skills, an understanding of Pharmaceutical development and/or commercial manufacturing and also possesses strong leadership and excellent communication skills.