Thermo Fisher Scientific

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Title: Sr Project Manager, Commercial Packaging

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll 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.

Division/Site Specific Information

Role reports to the Allentown, PA site and reports to the Clinical Trials Division (CTD). CTD partners with pharmaceutical and biotech customers around the world to ensure the right patients get the right therapies in the right doses at the right time – a concept that we internally embrace as “There is a Patient Waiting.” Our outstanding blend of services includes project management, packaging, distribution, transportation management and specialty logistics, ancillary supply management, clinical supply optimization, bio-repository storage and much more. Our more than 3000 employees in over 15 countries work hard every day knowing that what they do matters.

Discover Impactful Work:

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll manage complex strategic projects that make a meaningful impact on our mission to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. As Sr Project Manager, you'll guide successful execution of important initiatives across functions, ensuring timely delivery, risk mitigation, and stakeholder alignment. You'll manage multiple high-priority projects simultaneously, coordinating cross-functional teams through the complete project lifecycle while maintaining focus on business objectives and quality standards. Your expertise will be instrumental in implementing process improvements, new technologies, and transformational changes that enhance operational efficiency and customer success.

A Day in the Life:

• Work with internal and external customers to facilitate onboarding and launch of new commercial products.
• Drive high performing cross functional teams through creation and execution of detailed plans ensuring strict adherence to timelines.
• Serve as customer contact/liaison for all aspects of quotation, onboarding, demand forecasting, and production.
• Lead and facilitate Client meetings, visits and audits.
• Proactively identify and implement process improvements.

Keys to Success:

Education

• BS degree required, and an Advanced degree is preferred.

Experience

• 6-8 years of experience managing projects, cross-functional initiatives with a BS degree required, or 4 years will be excepted with an advance degree.
• Preferred Fields of Study: engineering, business, science, or related field.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent highly desired.
• Experience in regulated/GMP environment preferred.
• Experience with change management and continuous improvement methodologies.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects with budgets of $500K, or greater.
• Strong proficiency with project management tools and methodologies (Smartsheet's, MS Project, Agile/Scrum, etc.).
• Excellent communication and presentation skills for engaging stakeholders at all levels.
• Proven ability to collaborate and coordinate without direct authority in matrix environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work effectively in dynamic environment while maintaining focus on objectives.
• Knowledge of relevant industry standards (ISO, FDA, etc.) desirable.
• Track record of successful stakeholder management and relationship building.
• Demonstrated ability to manage project scope, schedule, budget and risk.

Benefits

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus scheme, 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.