Global Lead Project Manager (FSP), US (remote)

Thermo Fisher Scientific is a global team committed to scientific excellence and innovation. They are seeking a Global Lead Project Manager to serve as the primary contact for project delivery, ensuring quality, time, and cost management while leading a cross-functional project team.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary contact between the sponsor and the organization at the project level
• Ensure escalation pathways adhered to internally and externally (Rules of Engagement – communication pathways)
• On projects where the scope requires, ensure clear delineation in responsibilities and communication pathways for secondary project leads (such as lead in a specific region, lead for a specific vendor(s) or subset of delivery)
• Accountable for the overall delivery of the cross-functional project (time, cost, quality)
• Ensure financial stewardship at a project level by demonstrating an intimate understanding of the contract, resource alignment to budget, management of Out-of-Scope activity, drive the Con Mod process/negotiations and team execution to timelines
• Establish, communicate and manage customer expectations to achieve optimal delivery during the project
• Drive Risk Identification and Issue Resolution at project level
• Ensure project team compliance with organization policies, SOPs, ICH- GCP, regulatory and project specific requirements

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
• Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 8+ years)
• 5+ years' experience in pharmaceutical industry and/or clinical research organization (including 3+ years' experience serving as a Global Lead Project Manager overseeing the clinical conduct of clinical trials)
• Extensive experience overseeing and managing a diverse portfolio of vendor types
• Technical and systems competency, such as computer skills, to include effective use of systems and applications such as Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, as well as organization systems
• Ability to delegate and effectively prioritize own and workload of project team members in a frequently changing environment
• Effective oral and written communication and presentation skills
• Proactive, solutions oriented and adaptable to changing priorities and situations
• Advanced therapeutic area knowledge and clinical development guidelines and directives
• Strong understanding of the key principles of project management (time, quality, cost), including solid financial acumen
• Sound interpersonal and customer service skills, including the ability to lead, motivate and coordinate cross-functional project teams
• Good judgment and decision making skills and capable of applying critical and analytical strategic thinking skills to manage complex/ambiguous situations
• Ability to negotiate, persuade and influence others, including a cross cultural awareness
• Experience in more than one therapeutic area is advantageous