Senior Manager IT / Program Management
About The Position
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. Summary: Manages a team responsible for delivering IT validation services supporting laboratory systems, instruments, and applications. Provides technical leadership, people management, and program oversight to ensure successful execution of multiple concurrent projects while meeting business priorities. Leads a team of Validation Analysts and Application Administrators, managing validation initiatives as a coordinated program while overseeing each validation as an individual project from planning through completion. Partners closely with business, quality, laboratory operations, infrastructure teams, and vendors to deliver high-quality technology solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 8+ years of experience in Information Technology, laboratory systems, or a related technical environment.
- 2+ years of people management experience leading technical teams.
- Demonstrated experience managing multiple projects and programs simultaneously.
- Experience using Jira for planning, tracking, reporting, and resource management required.
- Strong knowledge of project and program management methodologies, including Agile and hybrid delivery approaches.
- Proven ability to manage cross-functional teams, stakeholders, vendors, and competing priorities.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
- Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, which includes a drug screening(where applicable)
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting laboratory instruments, scientific applications, or enterprise IT systems.
- Project Management Professional (PMP), Scrum Master, Agile, or similar certification.
- Experience with validation lifecycle management, audit support, or quality systems.
- Experience leading organizational or process improvement initiatives.
- Experience supporting regulated or quality-driven environments.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of technical professionals through work assignment, performance management, and career development.
- Manage a portfolio of validation projects, ensuring delivery against scope, timelines, priorities, and business objectives.
- Serve as the primary liaison between IT, Quality, laboratory operations, and business stakeholders.
- Utilize Jira to manage project planning, resource allocation, backlogs, deliverables, dashboards, and reporting.
- Monitor project risks, dependencies, milestones, and team workload to ensure successful delivery.
- Drive process improvements, standardization, and operational excellence across validation activities.
- Provide regular program updates, metrics, and status reporting to leadership.
- Coordinate internal teams, external vendors, and cross-functional partners to deliver technology solutions that support business needs.
- Foster a collaborative, customer-focused culture while promoting accountability and continuous improvement.
Benefits
- A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
- Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
- At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
- Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
- Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
