Sr. Project Manager, FSP

Thermo Fisher Scientific•Durham, NC

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Project Manager serves as the Project Lead and primary sponsor contact, accountable for overall project delivery—including quality, time, and cost. With minimal direction, the role establishes and communicates customer expectations, ensures internal and external escalation pathways are followed, and leads cross-functional project teams to meet or exceed deliverables. The position manages projects of increasing complexity, including work involving multiple services, regions or countries, therapeutic complexity, or financial scope. The Senior Project Manager owns project-level delivery and financial stewardship, including understanding contracts, aligning resources to budgets, managing out-of-scope activity, driving contract modification processes and negotiations, and ensuring timely execution. The role also leads risk identification and issue resolution, supports compliance with organizational policies and applicable clinical and regulatory requirements, mentors others, and contributes to process improvement initiatives.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, supported by relevant academic or vocational qualifications.
Comparable to 8 or more years of relevant experience providing the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to perform the job.
Technical and systems competency, including effective use of Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and organizational systems such as CTMS, Preclarus, and Clarity.
Ability to delegate and effectively prioritize project team workload and resources in a frequently changing environment.
Effective oral and written communication and presentation skills.
Proactive, solutions-oriented, and adaptable when priorities or situations change.
In-depth therapeutic area knowledge and knowledge of clinical development guidelines and directives.
Advanced knowledge of key cross-functional project management principles: time, quality, and cost.
Effective interpersonal skills, including the ability to lead, motivate, and coordinate cross-functional project teams.
Strong customer service skills and ability to proactively address and prioritize expectations.
Good judgment and decision-making skills, with the ability to apply critical, analytical, and strategic thinking to complex or ambiguous situations.
Strong negotiation skills, ability to influence others and achieve results, and cross-cultural awareness.
Strong financial acumen and ability to minimize risk through proactive management and adjustment of budgets, forecasts, and resources.
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.

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, such as regional leads or leads for vendors or subsets of delivery.
Own and drive overall cross-functional project delivery across time, cost, and quality.
Provide project-level financial stewardship by understanding the contract, aligning resources to the budget, managing out-of-scope activity, driving contract modification processes and negotiations, and ensuring team execution to timelines.
Establish, communicate, and manage customer expectations to support optimal project delivery.
Drive project-level risk identification and issue resolution using RBQM/RESOLVE.
Ensure the project team complies with organizational policies, SOPs, ICH-GCP, regulatory requirements, and project-specific requirements.
Act as a mentor.
Develop or contribute to process improvement initiatives.