Project Manager Jobs

Thermo Fisher's clinical research business is a leading global contract research organization and world leader in serving science. We are passionate, deliberate, and driven by our mission – to enable our clients to make the world healthier, safer, and cleaner.

Within our Analytical Services team, we have a functional service provider solution, which is an outstanding partnership that allows our customers to use the experience of our staff, while allowing you, the employee, to gain direct experience working onsite at a pharmaceutical/ biopharmaceutical company, all while maintaining full-time benefits.

Position Summary

This position will support and perform the delivery of robust and GMP lab services in support of the Client pipeline in a cross functional setting. This role will also maintain the lab’s combined timelines, budget, resources planning, and support the intake and governance processes for projects. From time to time, you might also support projects to build and maintain a compliant laboratory operating system and upgrade capabilities to integrate additional assay modalities and capabilities.

• Prepare regular progress reports and ad hoc reports to facilitate seamless communication and visibility of project status throughout the organization
• Partner with Translational Sciences & Diagnostics, Program Management team to implement best practices for project managers of teams, e.g., resource capacity planning, project risk management, team performance, and timeline development.
• Maintains budget for the lab and appropriate cross charging for function using those services.
• Work with legal and the Manager of Translational Sciences & Diagnostic, Lab Planning and Execution team to develop contracts for research collaborators and service providers
• Identify project risks and mitigations with the project team and work towards resolution of project issues
• Collaborate with Translational Medicine IT business partners for Translational Sciences & Diagnostics
• Prepare and track project budgets (expense and capital), manage project financials including accruals and payables
• Establish a close working relationship with external partners, collaborators, and specialty contract research providers to monitor the execution of projects.
• Develop and maintain timelines for activities, assure alignment with project timelines as applicable, update timeline on an ongoing basis to provide transparency to the organization
• Coordinate resource planning across functions to assure that adequate resources are being applied to the projects in the book of work. This will include planning for future lab capacity based on anticipated demands or shifting of project workload between facilities.
• Support the project team and deliverables, working effectively with cross-functional representatives including scientific, technical program management, clinical, quality regulatory, IT, legal, finance, facilities, and others as necessary.
• Partake in Lab Planning activities including lab space footprints and instrumentation layouts.

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If you resonate with our 4i values above, and ultimately wish to accelerate the delivery of safe and effective therapeutics for some of the world’s most urgent health needs, submit your application – we’d love to hear from you!