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At Thermo Fisher Scientific, our Mission is to Enable Our Customers to Make the World Healthier, Cleaner and Safer. It is more than just something that fills our days, our work has a purpose. Our work requires passion and creates meaningful outcomes. Our work matters. We are sharing our expertise and technological advancements with customers, helping them make the world a better place - whether they are discovering a cure for cancer, protecting the environment, or making sure our food is safe. Our colleagues share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement. We work together to accelerate research, tackle sophisticated analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics, drive innovation, and increase laboratory productivity.
Division Specific Information:
The Digital Science and Automation Solution (DSAS) business designs, develops, supplies, and supports industry leading laboratory workflow solutions and robotic automation, predominantly for the Pharma, Biopharma and the Genetic testing space. These solutions enable our customers to advance science, accelerate discovery and improve outcomes. Our offerings shape the lab of the future, by accelerating innovation, automation and discovery. In short, it's our goal to make labs work the way people think they do with connected, instantaneous information, available seamlessly to scientists across the lab.
Position Specific Information:
Thermo Fisher Scientific is seeking an accomplished Program Manager to lead multiple complex, cross-functional DSAS programs from concept through commercialization and closure. This role is accountable for end-to-end program execution, including scope, schedule, budget, and delivery of business outcomes.
The Program Manager drives cross-functional alignment, proactively identifies and mitigates risks, resolves resource conflicts, and escalates issues with clear recommendations and trade-offs to ensure successful program delivery.
This role operates across multiple concurrent programs with significant cross-functional and organizational complexity. The Program Manager will work in close collaboration with other Program Managers and dedicated Product Managers assigned to each program.
Key Responsibilities:
Delivery performance
Lead end-to-end execution of multiple complex programs, ensuring delivery against committed scope, schedule, and budget
Establish and maintain program governance, including planning, milestone tracking, dependency management, and risk mitigation
Facilitate prioritization and trade-off decisions to ensure optimal business outcomes.
Champion a customer-first approach across all programs, ensuring customer needs and use cases are reflected in program priorities and trade-off decisions
Proactively identify and manage risks and issues to ensure timely resolution and maintain program momentum
Contribute to Practical Process Improvement initiatives to deliver measurable improvements in efficiency, quality, or customer experience
Commercial readiness
Drive cross-functional readiness for product launches, including alignment with Product Management, Engineering/Quality, Commercial and Finance teams
Ensure all program deliverables support successful commercialization and launch outcomes, including regulatory, operational, and customer readiness
Track and manage launch readiness milestones and ensure alignment with go-to-market timelines
Stakeholder alignment
Lead program communications and phase-gate reviews, providing clear, concise, and decision-oriented updates to stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership.
Align cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering, Quality, Commercial, Operations) on priorities, timelines, and deliverables
Drive alignment and execution across multiple business units, functions, and geographies
Facilitate decision-making by presenting risks, options, and trade-offs to leadership
If applicable establish and maintain strong working relationships with third-party partners, holding them accountable to contractual commitments and ensuring alignment on scope, schedule, performance, budget ...
Financial/resource control
Manage program budgets, forecasts, and resource allocation across initiatives
Monitor financial performance and ensure alignment with approved business cases
Identify resource constraints and drive resolution through prioritization and escalation
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Strategic Area
Metrics
Delivery performance
% of milestones delivered on time (tracked vs. target)
% of programs delivered within approved scope and schedule
Commercial readiness
% of programs successfully launched
% of programs achieving launch readiness on time
Post-launch issue rate (decreasing trend)
Stakeholder alignment
Stakeholder satisfaction score
Decision turnaround time for escalated issues
Financial/resource control
Budget variance (tracked vs. plan)
Resource utilization efficiency
Forecast accuracy
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline
PMP certification preferred
8–10+ years of experience managing complex, cross-functional technical programs, including stage-gate commercialization and SDLC delivery in Agile/SAFe environments
Strong knowledge of project management principles (resource allocation, cost estimation, risk analysis)
Experience managing programs in regulated environments (e.g., GxP, FDA) is a plus
Fluent in English
Additional Attributes:
Execution & Delivery
Demonstrated persistence in overcoming obstacles and driving programs to completion
Ability to manage multiple complex programs simultaneously
Strong sense of ownership and accountability
Financial & Business Acumen
Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, and financial tracking
Familiarity with portfolio management concepts
Communication & Influence
Ability to communicate complex topics clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
Proven ability to influence decisions and drive alignment without formal authority
Comfort with Ambiguity
Ability to operate effectively in uncertain and evolving environments
Proactively identifies challenges and drives solutions
We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus scheme, healthcare, company 401k, 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 critical job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.
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