People Manager - AD Project Mgmt/CTM (Neurosciences Team)

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Job Description

Associate Director, Project Management – People Manager

To be eligible for consideration, you must have experience functioning as a CTM or PL at ppd and have experience in Neurosciences indications.

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. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

Our Project Delivery colleagues within our PPD® clinical research services direct, coordinate and lead the technical and operational aspects of projects, securing the successful completion of clinical trials. This includes collaborating with functional area leads to identify and evaluate fundamental issues on the project and to ensure that solutions are implemented. Project Delivery is vital to helping our customers deliver life-changing therapies.

Through our global team, you may engage in diverse initiatives and projects, or be part of a virtual international project team gaining cross-cultural experience.

Discover Impactful Work:

We are seeking an Associate Director in our Project Management Neurosciences Team. This role is for the LATAM region and is remote based.

The People Manager leads a team of Project Delivery direct reports of differing levels of experience and project roles within a Therapeutic Unit. Accountable for the career development and performance management of their team, providing coaching in both soft skills and technical skills as related to the use of organization systems, tools, and processes. Adept at identifying and addressing training gaps, while maintaining employee motivation and trust. The people manager develops the ability to collaborate and balance business need with career development opportunities.

A day in the Life:

• Leads staff, including interviewing and selection, job description preparation, professional development, goal setting, performance management, coaching and mentoring, employee counseling, and separations. Approves courses of action on salary administration, hiring, corrective action, and terminations. Reviews and approves time records, expense reports, requests for leave, and overtime.
• Accountable for the career development and performance management of a group of project delivery direct reports in line with The Core People Manager Expectations at the organization.
• Partners with project team leadership and key collaborators (i.e OD, SLT, BPL, DevOps, functional leadership) to ensure areas of development, training needs and coaching are aligned through routine and active engagement.
• Provides coaching, soft skill and technical skill development to grow our Project Delivery talent.
• Provides support/direction to direct report(s) with regards to knowledge of organization systems, processes, and tools within Project Delivery.
• Liaises with Resourcing Leads, TU Leadership and other key partners to advocate for direct report(s), ensuring appropriate project assignment(s) and balance between career development and business needs.
• Develop collaboration and connections amongst peers.
• Cultivates high quality relationships with each direct report to create a believing environment.
• Participates in Initiatives to further talent development.

Keys to Success:

Education

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification

Experience

• Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 10-12+ years).
• 5+ years of management responsibility
• Shown leadership skills

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Comprehensive therapeutic area knowledge, clinical development guidelines and directives and regulatory guidelines
• Experienced knowledge of the key principles of cross functional project management (Time, Quality, Cost)
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills
• Demonstrated leadership and social skills including the ability to lead, motivate and coordinate cross-functional project teams
• Technical and systems competency, such as computer skills, to include effective use of systems and applications such as Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, as well as organization systems (CTMS, Preclarus, Clarity)
• Shown flexibility and ability to effectively prioritize workload and resources for project team members in a frequently changing environment
• Skilled in process improvement and strategic development, especially as it applies to clinical trials, clinical development and project management
• Ability to coach, mentor and lead global and/or cross-functional teams with a cultural awareness
• Strong financial competence with an in-depth of knowledge and practical application of budgeting, forecasting and resource management
• Ability to identify and address training gaps for soft skill and technical development, including leading performance stewardship, metrics and retention
• Excellent judgment, decision making and problem-solving skills and shown ability to apply critical and analytical strategic thinking skills to drive development and retention of top performers
• Proven ability to act as a change champion
• Ability to collaborate and foster accountability in a learning environment
• Ability to drive process improvement and central initiatives
• Strong negotiation skills with ability to influence others and get results

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 for typical working hours.
• Ability to use and learn standard office equipment and technology with proficiency.
• Able to perform successfully under pressure while prioritizing and handling multiple projects or activities. 
• May require travel.  (Recruiter will provide more details.) 

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