Global Lead Project Manager (FSP), US (remote)

Thermo Fisher Scientific • Wilmington, NC

11d • Remote

About The Position

The Project Manager serves as the project lead and primary sponsor contact, accountable for overall project delivery—including quality, time, and cost. The role establishes and communicates customer expectations, ensures internal and external escalation pathways are followed, and leads a cross-functional project team to meet or exceed deliverables. The position also provides project-level financial stewardship, manages risks and issues, and ensures compliance with organizational policies, SOPs, ICH-GCP, regulatory requirements, and project-specific requirements.

Work is performed in an office, with 0%-20% travel required, potentially including international travel. The schedule is standard Monday through Friday.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic or vocational qualification.
• Comparable experience providing the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job, typically 8 or more years.
• At least 5 years of experience as a Global Lead Project Manager conducting clinical trials end to end.
• Several years of demonstrated experience managing and overseeing a broad range of vendor types.
• Technical and systems competency, including effective use of Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Ability to delegate and effectively prioritize personal workload and that of project team members in a frequently changing environment.
• Effective oral and written communication and presentation skills.
• Proactive, solutions-oriented, and adaptable approach to changing priorities and situations.
• Advanced therapeutic-area knowledge and knowledge of clinical development guidelines and directives.
• Strong understanding of project management principles, including time, quality, cost, and financial acumen.
• Interpersonal and customer service skills, including the ability to lead, motivate, and coordinate cross-functional project teams.
• Good judgment and decision-making skills, with the ability to apply critical, analytical, and strategic thinking to complex or ambiguous situations.
• Ability to negotiate, persuade, and influence others, including cross-cultural awareness.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in at least two therapeutic areas.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary project-level contact between the sponsor and the organization.
• Ensure internal and external escalation pathways and communication rules are followed.
• Where required by project scope, establish clear responsibilities and communication pathways for secondary project leads, including regional, vendor, or delivery-subset leads.
• Account for overall cross-functional project delivery in terms of time, cost, and quality.
• Provide project-level financial stewardship by understanding the contract, aligning resources to the budget, managing out-of-scope activity, driving the contract modification process and negotiations, and supporting team execution to timelines.
• Establish, communicate, and manage customer expectations to achieve optimal project delivery.
• Drive project-level risk identification and issue resolution.
• Ensure the project team complies with organizational policies, SOPs, ICH-GCP, regulatory requirements, and project-specific requirements.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior