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Job Description

Job Description:

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

Summarized Purpose:

Serves as the Project Lead and primary sponsor contact. Accountable for the overall delivery of the project (quality, time, cost) on behalf of the organization. Establishes and communicates customer expectations to the project team. Ensures that escalation pathways are adhered to internally and externally. Owns the cross functional project team to meet or exceed deliverables.

Key responsibilities:

• Serves as the primary contact between the sponsor and the organization at the project level.

• Ensures escalation pathways adhered to internally and externally (Rules of Engagement – communication pathways).

• On projects where the scope requires, ensures 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).

• Ensures 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.

• Establishes, communicates and manages customer expectations to achieve efficient delivery during the project

• Drives Risk Identification and Issue Resolution at project level (RBQM/RESOLVE).

• Ensures project team compliance with organization policies, SOPs, ICH- GCP, regulatory and project specific requirements.

Keys to Success

Education and Experience:

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’).

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Technical and systems proficiency, such as digital literacy, to include effective use of systems and applications such as Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, as well as organization systems (CTMS, Preclarus, Transparency)

• 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

• Sophisticated 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, empower and coordinate cross-functional project teams

• Good judgment and decision making skills and capable of applying critical and analytical strategic thinking skills to manage sophisticated/ambiguous situations

• Ability to negotiate, persuade and influence others, including a cross cultural awareness

Benefits

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!

• Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values
• Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #Start Your Story with PPD, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

Apply today! http://jobs.thermofisher.com

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

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