Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Safety Standards, Laboratory Setting, Some degree of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) required (safety glasses, gowning, gloves, lab coat, ear plugs etc.)

Job Description

Job Description
As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Discover Impactful Work: 
To provide leadership to scientists and engineers inside a newly created, cross-functional organization positioned within the Global Business Systems organization, known as the Cost Value Engineering Center of Excellence.  Direct all aspects of the team driving alternative sourcing programs and projects meeting organizational goals and requirements, provide executive leadership updates while routinely communicating project portfolio health, and implement governance and processes for outstanding project execution. Respond to and resolve supply chain crisis when the need emerges ensuring continuity throughout Thermo.  

A Day in the Life:
•    Develop and manage resources efficiently and effectively in a cross-functional / matrixed organization driving alternative sourcing, productivity projects, and delivering value globally.
•    Manage resources and tasks within the cross-functional and collaborate with key partners to establish both governance and best practice for the team’s cadence. (schedules, heatmaps, resource management, metric impact, return on investment)
•    Govern execution teams to mitigate duplicate efforts within the broader matrixed organization.
•    Ensure accuracy and alignment within reports being generated and communicated from the department and to maintain records of the team’s impact through key attributes.
•    Govern and maintain systems of record such as Per Angusta, PPM Pro, Power BI tools, and Rever for practical process improvement.
•    Bring value as the technical leader amongst peer level leadership within cross-functional teams facilitating communication, decision making, and execution.
•    Drive team’s in gathering requirements, creating and testing design specs, and coach teams through systems, processes, and the use of applicable software to deliver desired results.
•    Maintain team alignment to the organizations strategic goals and be willing to shift priorities as directed by executive leadership.
Keys to Success:
Education
•    Bachelor's degree in a technical field (Chemistry, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, or equivalent) highly preferred.
•    Technical graduate degree preferred.
•    High school diploma or equivalent required.
Experience
•    6 years of relevant experience  in manufacturing sciences, technical sourcing, or other technical role required, ideally in the biotech industry with a BS degree, or 3 years of experience accepted with a master's level degree, or higher.
•    15 years of applicable leadership experience accepted in lieu of degree.
•    Experience working in a manufacturing or laboratory environment (preferred).
•    Continuous improvement experience (lean, PPI, Six Sigma, 5S) a plus.
•    Project Management and/or PMP certification a plus.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
•    Project Management skills, and experience with the utilization of tools, software, and practices used in day-to-day project management execution 
•    Capable of leading or supporting to cross-functional project teams.
•    Ability to work flexibly onsite, inside a Thermo manufacturing environment, alongside a supplier on their site, or supporting a customer within their product lines purchased.
•    Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills (both written and verbal) and demonstrated ability to communicate multiple levels of an organization both internally and externally 
•    Excellent problem-solving skills involving science and engineering.
•    Highly organized with the ability to multi-task; capable of leading a team remotely.
•    Flexibility and understanding of business to address immediate priorities while managing deadlines with longer-term projects and strategic goals
•    Thrives in a dynamic work environment; has ‘can-do’ attitude.
•    Attention to detail
•    Strong Understanding of processes, documentation, testing, and quality requirements for materials and finished goods within our industry. Including Knowledge of established Quality Systems, ISO regulations and cGMP operations
•    Ability to travel domestically/internationally approximately