Sr. Manager, Portfolio & Program Management

Standard (Mon-Fri) Environmental Conditions Office Job Description When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work, like helping customers in finding cures for cancer, protecting the environment or making sure our food is safe. Your work will have real-world impact, and you’ll be supported in achieving your career goals. How will you make an impact?

What will you do? You’ll lead the product development portfolio by ensuring in-flight programs and projects are prioritized and executed flawlessly, driving the road-mapping and multi-generational product planning processes, and leading continuous improvement. You’ll lead a team of Program Managers, hiring and developing great people, effectively matching people to the right roles and assignments, and holding the team accountable to commitments.

Responsibilities

• By leading the product development portfolio, a team of program managers, and collaborative cross-functional teams to define and deliver commitments: demonstrating feasibility for new technologies, commercializing new products, or improving on-market products, using our stage-gate or iterative processes to deliver to the agreed scope, schedule, and budget, while managing execution, risks, trade-offs, expectations, and communications.
• You’ll lead complex programs and projects, delivering on scope, schedule, and budget commitments while developing project teams, and building productive relationships.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Engineering or Life Science required; PMP certification, advanced leadership training, MS, MBA or Ph.D. preferred.
• 15+ years of life science or medical device or other instrument product development and 10+ years technical project management experience required; experience with analytical instrument development, genetic analysis technologies or in-vitro diagnostics preferred.
• Fluent in English.
• Intrinsically motivated, accountable, and committed to professional development.
• Excellent written and verbal communicator; exceptional relationship builder.
• Effective at influencing and leading without direct authority.
• Ability to lead and drive complex decisions and solve problems.
• Strong product development technical and business expertise.

Preferred

• People management experience is preferred.

How will you get here?