(Sr) Project Lead/Manager (General Medicine)

About Thermo Fisher Scientific

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.

About the Role

Our Project Delivery colleagues within our PPD® clinical research services direct, coordinate and lead 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.

We have a vacancy for a (Senior) Project Manager (Delivery) in our CVGM – Cardio – General Medicine Team in the EMEA region.

We especially seek indication experience in Nephrology and Transplant experience (kidney preferable) (please note relevant experience in your application).

The therapeutic scope required is Nephrology and transplant experience as well as indications required within Cardiovascular & General Medicine - Dermatology, GI, (UC/CD), Cardiovascular, Liver, Nephrology, Immunology, Rare Disease, Diabetes, Obesity, Dyslipidemia, Women's Health, Rheumatology, (RA, SLE, Gout).

Discover Impactful Work

• Serves as the Project Lead and primary sponsor contact.
• Accountable for the overall delivery of the project (quality, time, cost) on behalf of the organization.
• Establishes and communicates customer expectations to the project team.
• Leads the cross functional project team to meet or exceed deliverables.

A Day in the Life

• Is the primary contact between the sponsor and the organization at the project level.
• Ensures escalation pathways adhered to internally and externally (Rules of Engagement – communication pathways).
• On projects where the scope requires, ensures clear delineation in responsibilities and communication pathways for secondary project leads (such as lead in a specific region, lead for a specific vendor(s) or subset of delivery).
• 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, drive the Con Mod process/negotiations and team execution to timelines.
• Establishes, communicates and manages the sponsor to achieve optimal delivery during the project.
• Drives Risk Identification and Issue Resolution at project level (RBQM/RESOLVE).
• Ensures project team compliance with organization policies, SOPs, ICH- GCP, regulatory and project specific requirements.

Keys to Success

Education

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification.
• Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 8+ years’).
• Experience in General Medicine studies, specifically in the list of indications (Nephrology, transplant (kidney)).
• In some cases an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Technical and systems competency, such as computer skills, to include effective use of systems and applications such as Microsoft Outlook.

Employment Type

• Full time

Work Schedule

• Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

• Office