Project Manager, FSP (Ophthamology)

Thermo Fisher Scientific

1d • Onsite

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, leads a cross-functional project team to meet or exceed deliverables, and ensures internal and external escalation pathways are followed.

The Project Manager also provides project-level financial stewardship, oversees risk identification and issue resolution, and ensures the team complies with organizational policies, SOPs, ICH-GCP, regulatory requirements, and project-specific requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, supported by relevant academic or vocational qualifications.
• Comparable to 8+ years of relevant experience providing the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job.
• Technical and systems competency, including Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as organizational systems such as CTMS, Preclarus, and Clarity.
• Ability to delegate and prioritize personal and project-team workloads in a frequently changing environment.
• Effective oral and written communication and presentation skills.
• Proactive, solutions-oriented, and adaptable 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, and cost, as well as solid 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 critical, analytical, and strategic thinking abilities for managing complex or ambiguous situations.
• Ability to negotiate, persuade, and influence others, including cross-cultural awareness.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree.
• Background in biomedical or life sciences.

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, define responsibilities and communication pathways for secondary project leads.
• Be accountable for overall cross-functional project delivery in terms of time, cost, and quality.
• Provide project-level financial stewardship, including understanding the contract, aligning resources with the budget, managing out-of-scope activity, driving contract modification processes and negotiations, and ensuring the team meets timelines.
• Establish, communicate, and manage customer expectations to achieve optimal project delivery.
• Drive project-level risk identification and issue resolution using RBQM/RESOLVE.
• Ensure project team compliance with organizational policies, SOPs, ICH-GCP, regulatory requirements, and project-specific requirements.

What This Job Offers

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