Thermo Fisher Scientific

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

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.

Job Duties:

• Coordinates and monitors multiple IT projects from initiation through delivery.
• Serves as the liaison between IT and the business line customer to ensure that all targets and deliverables are met.
• Develops project plans and cost estimates.
• Handles cross-project interdependencies in order to avoid potential impacts and identify optimizations in regard to scope, schedule, budget, and resource utilization.
• Reviews data on complex issues, makes good business decisions, and ensures solutions are implemented.
• Ensures all project deliverables meet the customer’s time/quality/cost expectations.
• Manages and provides oversight and direction to allocated project team members to ensure quality and timely delivery of project requirements.

Keys to Success:

Education

• 2-5 years of related project management experience in systems development, application development and implementation or the equivalent experience
• Bachelor's degree in business administration, information technology, engineering or an equivalent combination of education, training and professional experience that provides the individual with the required knowledge, skills and abilities.
• Ideally IT experience supporting the scientific industry

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Understanding of the key principles of cross functional project management (ex: Time, Quality, Cost)
• Agile Scrum experience highly desirable
• Excellent financial competence.
• Solid track record of excellent project management skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to work across the organization and collaboratively. Critical thinker with solid judgment and strong initiative.
• Proficiency in collaboration across multiple and diverse groups
• Strong experience with managing projects through all aspects of a project life cycle
• Ability to delegate, effectively prioritizes own and project team members workload
• Ability to effectively use automated systems and computerized applications such as Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel, Word, JIRA, etc.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, time management and organizational skills
• Experience managing geographically distributed teams highly desired.
• PMP and/or Agile Certification highly desired

Work Environment

Thermo Fisher Scientific values the health and wellbeing of our employees. We support and encourage individuals to create a healthy and balanced environment where they can thrive. Below is listed the working environment/requirements for this role:

• Able to communicate, receive, and understand information and ideas with diverse groups of people in a comprehensible and reasonable manner.
• Able to work upright and stationary and/or standing for typical working hours.
• Able to lift and move objects up to 25 pounds.
• Able to work in non-traditional work environments.
• Able to use and learn standard office equipment and technology with proficiency.
• May have exposure to potentially hazardous elements, including infectious agents, typically found in healthcare or laboratory environments.
• Able to perform successfully under pressure while prioritizing and handling multiple projects or activities.