Sr. Manager, R&D Material Scientist

Job Description

When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do meaningful work, that makes a positive impact on a global scale! Join 80,000 colleagues who bring our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. You’ll find the resources here to achieve your career goals and help take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges. This includes protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe, and helping find cures for cancer.

Position Summary:

The Sr. Manager R&D Material Scientist The R&D manager will be responsible driving innovation and collaboration of SUD  R&D with internal and external collaborators.  The manager will manage global organization and drive toward  large initiatives consistent with our 5 year strategic plan.  The manager will work closely with the CSO’s office to align with all corporate initiatives consistent within our sphere of influence.  The manager will drive Research teams alignment with corporate EIS results.   Other key responsibilities include:

• Innovate new platforms for BU evaluations
• Support NPI developments
• Support all Quality related investigations requiring fundamental scientific acumen
• Support manufacturing in trouble shooting exercises to mitigate product performance issues.
• Collaborate with global organizations either Universities, Centers of Excellence, or government labs.
• Publish trend setting documents for customer facing white papers, international conferences, or peer reviewed journals.
• Establish a team of curious researchers whose passion is to discover what most necessarily solves our customers most pressing problems.

Preferred background/Qualifications:

• Ph.D. in Science or Engineering field.
• Management experience of 5 years or greater
• Minimum 5+ years’ experience in Research and development in the life science or bioprocess market
• Proven success in forming influencing interdepartmental relationships to achieve desire outcomes
• Demonstrated leadership experience within a region or product line and an eye for business with analytical abilities to draw conclusions and observations from sales and market trends
• Demonstrated excellence in oral and written communications skills, training, and public speaking experience, a requirement
• Knowledge of bioproduction space and competitive landscape

Travel: Global travel is estimated to be 10% of the time, independently to customer sites, factories, trade shows, and meetings

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus scheme, healthcare, company pension, 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.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.