Program Manager

Job Description

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.

Location/Division: Cincinnati, OH Drug Product Division

How you will make an impact

The Program Manager provides oversite across the product life cycle for strategic programs to ensure on-time delivery and successful program execution. This role maintains program commitments, timelines, and customer relationships, with a focus on delivering an excellent customer experience through creative problem solving and cross-functional collaboration.

What will you do?

• Manages and communicates end-to-end program health providing one source of clear, accurate communication.

• Lead strategic operational aspects of strategic projects / programs with the customer and project management teams to ensure timely, coordinated, risk mitigated delivery of projects and services.

• Coordinate site-wide resources to provide comprehensive solutions, based on the entire product and services portfolio across the site.

• Prepares material for internal and external Program Joint Steering Committee and executive level report outs.

• Lead and facilitate program issues, risk mitigation and solution escalation process, serving as a liaison with Site Leadership to ensure effective solution/resolution.

• Responsible for maintaining integrated program timelines and oversight across the product life cycle.

• Holds teams accountable to stage gate process and weekly/monthly/quarterly reviews.

• Supports the organization through deployment of standard tools and practices.

How will you get here?

Education

B.S. in Science/Engineering or related field relevant required.

Master of Business Administration (MBA) preferred. 

Experience

• 5+ years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry and within a GMP environment.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Demonstrated knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturing and outsourcing, including use of SOPs required by Quality standards.

• Outstanding client service orientation, interpersonal skills, and business insight.

• Demonstrated project management experience, with strong analytical and organizational skills to handle contending priorities in a fast-paced environment.

• Knowledge of site functions and a deep understanding of the relationships and processes requiring integration among departments within the business.

• Ability to optimally use a range of influencing and leadership styles, situationally dependent.

• Ability to assess situations and make clear timely decisions, achieving results that support all parties.

As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, tackle complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation, and support patients in need. #StartYourStory at Thermos Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.