Associate Director - Project Management - FSP - Drug Development exp

Position Overview

• Location Type: [Not specified]
• Job Type: Full-time
• Work Schedule: Standard (Mon-Fri)
• Environmental Conditions: Office

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.

The PPD FSP Solution: PPD's Functional Service Provider division partner with and serve as an extension of our PPD team, supporting our customers key functions. We cover customer needs on every level, allowing them to do more with less, with an uncompromising commitment to quality. We deploy the same top-tier talent in ALL engagement models. Exceptionally trained, rigorously supported and technologically empowered to help customers manage capacity and set programs up for success.

Joining within our PPD FSP functional area, allows you to join the renowned PPD CRO and still gain invaluable client dedicated experience.

Discover Impactful Work:

Potential Roles:

• Project Lead:
  • Primary sponsor contact.
  • Accountable for overall project delivery (quality, time, cost).
  • Establishes and communicates customer expectations to the project team with minimal direction.
  • Ensures adherence to escalation pathways internally and externally.
  • Leads cross-functional project teams to meet or exceed deliverables.
  • Manages projects of increasing complexity (e.g., multi-service, multi-region/country, therapeutic complexity, financial scope).
• Oversight Director:
  • Accountable for strategic indication or client-specific portfolio management within a Therapeutic Unit.
  • Provides therapeutic expertise in project delivery execution, demonstrating ability to react quickly and appropriately to escalations.
  • Provokes critical thinking in the Project Lead related to delivery operations, financial negotiations, and risk mitigations/issue management.
  • Contributes to overall strategy development for proposals and pre-proposal opportunities.
• People Manager:
  • Directs a team of Project Delivery direct reports of differing experience levels and project roles within a Therapeutic Unit.
  • Accountable for career development and performance management of their team, providing coaching in soft skills and technical skills related to organization systems, tools, and processes.
  • Adept at identifying and addressing training gaps while maintaining employee motivation and trust.
  • Fosters collaboration and balances business needs with career development opportunities.

A Day in the Life:

• Serves as the primary contact between the sponsor and the organization at the project level.
• Lead cross-functional teams in the development, optimization, and execution of eCOA frameworks to ensure efficiency, compliance, and seamless trial execution.
• Serve as the eCOA SME across the organization, providing expert guidance throughout the end-to-end (E2E) process to ensure best practices and regulatory compliance.
• Ensures financial stewardship at a project level by demonstrating an intimate understanding of the contract, resource alignment to budget, management of Out of Scope activity, and driving the Con Mod process/negotiation.