Sr Director, Project Management - Oversight Function - Respiratory Team - US Remote Based

Job Summary

Employment Type: Full time Work Schedule: Standard (Mon-Fri) Environmental Conditions: Office

This position REQUIRES a recent expertise working with Respiratory clinical trial indications within a CRO environment. Please demonstrate this in your submittal to be considered.

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 manage 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.

Role Overview

Discover Impactful Work: We are seeking a Senior Director, Project Management in our Oversight Respiratory Trials Team. This role is remote based in the US.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversees operational excellence for the department developing strategies to ensure high quality deliverables and successful management of the financial portfolio.
• Maintains strategic relationships and serves as a senior leadership contact for clients.
• Provides input to business development and drives the business strategy focusing on innovation, operational efficiency and expansion of the department's global footprint.
• The Oversight Director is accountable for strategic indication or client-specific portfolio management within a Therapeutic Unit.
• Provides therapeutic expertise in project delivery execution, demonstrating the 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 for a project.
• Drives the overall strategy development for proposals and pre-proposal opportunities.

A Day in the Life

Potential Responsibilities:

• May manage staff, which may include 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 strategic indication or client-specific portfolio management within a Therapeutic Unit.
• Serves as senior level or executive contact.
• May review financial forecasting of TA.
• Acts as a Champion for organizational changes, offerings, developments and lead workstreams.
• Expertly navigates the need to dive in/dive out of situations while ensuring the Project Lead remains empowered.
• Provokes critical thinking and drives innovation in Project Lead related to execution of delivery, financial negotiations and prioritization.
• Provides insight into proposal strategy in prep for bid defense.
• Initiates collaboration with Therapeutic Unit Head in development and implementation of business growth strategies.
• Maintains awareness and engages as appropriate in the Con Mod process.