Senior Manager, Global Payroll Support Services
Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Leads the day to day activities of 8 - 12 project managers across the globe.
- Establish and maintain a program road map from concept to conclusion.
- Ensure alignment of project scope and schedule to meet project objectives.
- Demonstrate wide-ranging experience and use professional concepts in developing resolutions to critical issues.
- Set standards and processes for the portfolio and ensure all constituents are aligned.
- Ensure legal and compliance considerations are fully accounted for in all requirements.
- Facilitate meetings regarding portfolio on a regular basis.
- Handle small and large tasks and time allocations for multiple projects and across multiple departments simultaneously.
- Lead project-related reporting and communication.
- Compile and lead project related financial and important metric information.
- Coordinate project closure to distill good practice and ensure lessons learned are logged.
- Ensure efficient change control methods and processes are used.
- Ability to coordinate across cross-functionally.
- Must perform well in high-energy, dynamic, and team-oriented environments
- Consistent track record for planning, carrying out, controlling and closing projects and the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to establish working relationships with individuals at varying levels within the organization
- Strong and demonstrated ability to build lasting relationships with key collaborators.
- Experience of handling the complete lifecycle of a project with project teams of 10+ people.
- Solid skills in creating and maintaining project plans, including risks, actions, issues, dependencies.
- Highly efficient in resource planning and tasks assignment.
- Excellent written/oral communication skills for reports and presentations.
- Respectful ability to influence others at all levels of the business.
- Willingness to provide leadership, coaching, and/or mentoring to a subordinate group
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint
- Bachelor’s degree and work-related experience, required
- CPP/PMP a plus
- Extensive experience working in a multifaceted payroll position within a global delivery environment, required
- APAC, EMEA and LATAM payroll knowledge, preferred
- Experienced knowledge of ADP GlobalView/Celergo, Workday HCM/Time and/or mergers & acquisitions, required
- Advanced program or project management experience in the global payroll space, required
- Strong leadership presence, required