Staff Program Manager

Job Description

How will you make an impact?

By leading collaborative cross-functional teams to define and deliver commitments: demonstrating feasibility for new technologies, commercializing new products, or improving on-market products, all using our stage-gate or iterative processes to deliver to the agreed scope, schedule, and budget, while leading execution, risk management, trade-offs analysis, and communications.

What will you do?

• You'll lead programs and projects, driving problem solving activities, determining and committing to the right scope, schedule, and budget to deliver strategic business results.
• You'll manage all day-to-day project work, making sure that problems are rapidly identified and resolved, applying project management standard processes to deliver on commitments
• You'll lead project communications and phase approval reviews, providing clear and concise written and verbal communication to all levels of the project team and partners, and tailoring style to a broad range of audiences and situations.

How will you get here?

Education/Experience

• Bachelor's degree required, preferred in the Life Sciences
• PMP certification preferred but not required
• 6+ years of program/project management

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Intrinsically motivated, accountable, and committed to professional development.
• Excellent written and verbal communicator; exceptional relationship builder.
• Effective at influencing and leading without direct authority.
• Strong attention to detail with a passion to drive timely results and improvements.
• Excellent presentation ability particularly to help stakeholders in decision making.
• Ability to lead and drive complex decisions and solve problems.
• Experience with new product development and phase gate framework.

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, each one of our 80,000 extraordinary minds has a unique story to tell. Join us and contribute to our singular mission-enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

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

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Compensation and Benefits

The salary range estimated for this position based in Washington is $113,500.00-$170,200.00.

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
• Employees' Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards