Associate Director, Program Management – Laboratory Plastics Essentials

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you will 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. The Associate Director of Program Management is a key leadership role and reports to the Director of PMO for the Laboratory Plastics Essentials business.

You will have a leading position within our $1B annual revenue Laboratory Plastics Essentials business where we provide industry leading consumables and solutions. You will drive the new product introduction of a large complex, multi-disciplinary program with several project core teams including external partners/OEM’s to launch electro-mechanical hardware, software, and connectivity products that meet critical customer needs. This includes overall program accountability and being a trusted partner to business leaders in making strategic business decisions regarding the products under development. You will engage Agile development practices and drive intensity to meet project commitments with a multi-million annual R&D budget. This role has high visibility within and outside the business unit and requires exceptional facilitation, organizational, and communication skills.

• Owns strategic deployment and critical metrics for the program
• Leads distributed team internally as well as OEM relationship externally and off-shore development in partnership with R&D
• Leads the program management operating mechanisms, including tailoring the product development stage gate process, core team operations, project scheduling, risk management, decision making, etc
• Ensures the portfolio of programs meet scope, timing, cost, and revenue commitments
• Has accountability for post-launch performance in key areas such as revenue, lead times, quality / reliability, and margin
• Leads process improvement to ensure standard methodologies are demonstrated effectively and consistently
• Acts as the “general manager” responsible for all day-to-day operational aspects and delivering on commitments. Has direct line of communication with the Vice President & General Manager, Liquid Handling Solutions.
• Coaches team and other project managers on decision making and problem-solving approaches to remove obstacles, especially Thermo Fisher’s Practical Process Improvement (PPI) process to navigate project challenges
• Makes recommendations on the content and phasing of the 5-year roadmap and presents insights on portfolio performance to business leadership and corporate executives
• Uses experience to proactively predict typical project challenges on the horizon and devises mitigating actions to address

• Competency in MS suite of applications – as well as MS Project
• Experience leading complex product teams through system integration of hardware, software, equipment, and associated consumables
• BS in engineering or other technical degree. Mechanical, electrical, or systems engineering preferred
• 5+ years professional experience in leading cross-functional teams, prefer 7+ years experience

• Given the prominent position in the organization, experience leading and developing talent through mentoring, coaching and growth/career planning is desired
• Financial competence
• Knowledge of lean six sigma methodology
• Builds effective core teams that have a diverse mix of styles and experience and a sense of belonging
• Knows FDA-regulated environments and experience successfully launching medical devices or in vitro diagnostic
• PMP or equivalent certification preferred
• Understands the intricacies of product development of technical / connected product solutions in a regulated environment

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US: Rochester, Mebane, Carlsbad, Waltham, Pittsburg or remote arrangement for highly qualified candidates. Non-US sites: not under consideration