**Work Schedule** Standard (Mon-Fri) **Environmental Conditions** Office **Job Description** Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. leads in serving science. Our goal is to empower customers worldwide. Whether advancing research, solving analytical problems, improving healthcare, or boosting efficiency, we're here to help. Our team of over 100,000 colleagues offers innovative technologies and services. **Job Title: Project Manager III, Project Management** Location: Lagunilla, Costa Rica Reports To: Manager, Project Management Career Band: 6 **Position overview:** This will be a crucial position in our company-wide program office that supports the expansion of our shared services offerings to Thermo Fisher businesses. The Project Manager, GBS Enablement will lead all aspects of transition, migration, process improvement, automations, system implementations, and other change and transformation programs and ensure successful program delivery. The Project Manager will also coordinate project portfolios and ensure successful delivery of portfolio goals. They will be responsible for managing the program activities and supervising critical program achievements. The job holder will collaborate with a wide range of partners within and outside of Global Business Services, ensuring a coordinated approach. **Major areas of responsibility:** + Coordinates between cross-functional, geographically distributed project teams, to achieve desired outcomes + Coordinates with horizontal workstreams to manage interdependencies, support to lead project governance bodies and project workstreams + Collaborates with key collaborators to ensure timely and quality program implementation across workstreams and businesses + Coordinates the planning and logistics of ideation sessions, feasibility studies, process assessments and design workshops; manage information collection; facilitate workshops and capture outcomes + Supports the completion of complex project plans and achievement deliverables; prepares and maintains project plans for middle size projects, checks resource requirements and seeks resources + Conduct periodic project plan assessments, including achievement and deliverables reviews to ensure readiness and quality of the projects + Leads and implements middle-sized projects or defined areas of major projects, regardless scope (system implementations, migrations, transitions, process reengineering) + Manages project requirements, deliverables and progress throughout the project’s lifecycle with Business, Operational teams, IT and any other functions + Uses appropriate methods to guarantee timely completion of goals and achievements to meet project scope promptly, with quality and within budget. + Identifies and manages risks, issues, actions, decisions, and interdependencies, addresses customer concerns when necessary and works to find mitigation strategies. + Resolves issues and manages critical path processes related to project delivery + Collects project information during regular project updates, documents and shares project progress, results and barriers to project execution, track achievements to ensure timely completion + Responsible for regular reporting cadences, ensure clear communication of project outcomes (risks, issues, actions, and decisions), lead Steering Committee discussions for small/middle-size projects + Leads project portfolio for a business/workstream, ensures progress, and maintains overall health and savings. + Builds a culture of excellence in line with our Thermo Fisher Value **Required education/experience:** + Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required, preferably business related + 5+ years involvement in projects + Experience in Finance operations (OTC, PTP, FA, Inventory) or Customer Service is preferred + GBS experience is highly desirable + Project Management knowledge/certification (PMP, Prince2, Agile, etc) is an advantage + Experience in Agile project management is an advantage + Proficiency in English (verbal and written) **Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:** + Project management skills and capabilities (planning tools, defining deliverables, argument, case, reason, and baseline development) + Experience in successfully leading project deliverables and working on big projects + Ability to work independently, within a team, and collaboratively across teams + Capable of balancing multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously, efficient in time management + Excellent presentation, verbal and written communication skills across all levels of the organization + Sound workshop facilitation skills + Great Teammate, able to work effectively with others + Ability to deal with highly sensitive information in line with confidentiality expectations + Good MS Office (Word, Excel, and Outlook) skills Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.