Sr Project Manager, Biologics Contract Manufacturing

When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work. And you’ll have the opportunity for continual growth and learning in a culture that empowers your development. With revenues of more than $40 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and opportunities to make significant contributions to the world.

Location: Lengnau (BE), 1 day Home-Office

Your key responsibilities:

Plan and deliver all stages of the project within a matrix organization supporting the introduction of new products for cGMP manufacturing, process validation and clinical and commercial resupply programs.

• Be customer centric and understand the Customer's needs

• Resolve project team issues and facilitate decision making within the team. Drive progress to completion to the required standard (both internally and with the customer).

• Communicate regularly with the business, technical and customer teams. Track and report on critical program achievements. Lead progress, issues, and risks.

• Track and manage the financial aspects of the project including milestone payments, pass through costs and FTE estimates to ensure that we are timely and on budget.

• Consistently use all standard project management tools and templates in each customer program.

Education

• BSc in a relevant scientific field. Higher education (Graduate degree, MBA) is recommended.

• Certification highly desirable (PMP, Six Sigma, or equivalent).

Experience

• Requires at least 8 years related experience in the industry.

• A proven experience (5 years minimum) in a project management role, preferably responsible for customer programs in a contract manufacturing organization with significant business impact.

• Familiarity with pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical product lifecycles and experience leading sophisticated, cross-functional programs is recommended.

• Demonstrated success using excellent technical, organizational and time management skills to deliver projects to meet all customer expectations.

• Proven experience in project management including timeline & potentially budget management, communication plans, proactive risk prevention, action tracking and project plans.

• Open to challenge and to be challenged on ideas and opinions as part of a collaborative decision-making process.

• Strong knowledge of GMP

• Good understanding of Process Development

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Able to comprehend and interpret technical and business documents and apply to appropriate actions

• Solid understanding of financial analysis, forecasting, tracking, and reporting for projects vs. the allocated budgets

• Able to communicate with all levels in small and large group settings and influence actions and drive results within a matrix environment

• Able to lead teams in a high paced, rapidly changing environment while maintaining order and a larger picture perspective

• Able to interact and communicate with internal and external senior management and explain topics/decisions in the appropriate context

• Excellent communication skills

• Proficient with MS Project, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and MS Word

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