Staff 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: Tijuana, Mexico Corporate Division

How will you make an impact?

The Staff Program Manager will play an integral program management role in global integration programs impacting web sites as part of the Digital Programs & Engineering (DPE) team. The Staff Program Manager will be the liaison between DPE leadership, collaborators, vendors, and various integration teams to ensure bilateral communication of capabilities, priorities, standards, and status.

What will you do?

• Drive large initiatives from initiation to implementation, inclusive of hypercare support and closure.

• Coordinate multiple programs and projects simultaneously

• Function as a liaison between DPE leadership, stakeholders, vendors, and various integration teams to ensure bilateral communication of capabilities, priorities, standards, and status.

• Influence team members in a highly matrixed organization

• Be responsible for all aspects of assigned programs including scope, schedule, budget, resources, quality, and risk to ensure successful delivery.

• Proactively manage assigned programs to ensure achievements are achieved within plan including proactively managing execution progress, managing communications, reporting status, managing resources, managing change, removing roadblocks, and resolving conflicts

• Ensure projects adhere to the company’s formal identified framework of Scaled Agile Framework (SaFe)

• Create initial program budget and seek funding approval following the company’s capital funding process and manage the program budget throughout its course.

• Manage internal and external team members, customer relationships and third-party vendors.

• Serve as a Project and Program Management Subject Matter Expert

• Maintain knowledge and expertise in the subject areas of program management as well as multiple business processes and/or technical areas.

• Be a mentor to other employees and demonstrate the ability to influence others in a positive manner.

• Participate with management and other Program Managers in establishing standard methodologies in program management methods and tools.

• Work as a team member on special projects and other activities as needed.

How will you get here?

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, systems analysis or a related field of study preferred or required years of experience.

Experience

• 4+ years of successfully leading sophisticated cross-functional Enterprise-level IT programs.

• 7+ years of project and/or program management with growing responsibility and complexity

• Proven track record to work in matrixed environment.

• Managing program budgets, schedules, plans, resource allocations, and priorities

• Various industry PM methodologies including SAFe and Waterfall

• PMP, SAFe and SCM certification a plus

• Possess integrity and trust in quality of work.

• MS Office 365, including MS Project, PowerPoint and Excel preferred.

• Jira Align, Jira, SharePoint, Confluence preferred.

• PlanView a plus

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Highly motivated and solution oriented with a dedication to get results.

• Solid organization, analytical, critical thinking, and creative problem-solving skills

• Strong focus on continuous improvement with ability to quickly learn.

• Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills, including facilitation and negotiation.

• Strong leadership skills with solid track record to lead in a heavily matrixed environment.

• Excellent written and verbal presentation skills across all levels of organization