Sr. Program Manager, Biotech Solutions -US - East Coast/Central Region

Thermo Fisher Scientific • Morrisville, NC

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About The Position

The Sr. Program Manager, Biotech Solutions provides strategic leadership for high-visibility biotech sector initiatives, with primary responsibility for managing cross-functional strategic programs, collaboration across groups and divisions, and senior stakeholder alignment. This role serves as a trusted partner to senior leaders, owning the planning and execution of complex initiatives that advance sector priorities, strengthen customer relationships, and deliver measurable business impact across the biotech organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
• Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 8+ years).
• Hands on experience and knowledge of clinical trial operations
• Experience influencing cross-functional groups and senior leaders
• Demonstrated experience managing complex initiatives
• Understanding of clinical research and the drug development process
• Executive stakeholder management and influence without authority.
• Strong understanding of process improvement fundamentals.
• Solid investigative and analytical skills.
• Decision-making under ambiguity
• Strong negotiation skills.
• Proven understanding of clinical management technology and systems, and strong computer skills.
• Executive communications and synthesis of insights.
• Effective judgment, decision making, critical issue, and risk management skills.
• Effective oral and written communication skills including the ability to communicate in English, both orally and in writing.
• Strong social skills and problem-solving ability.
• Capable of directing and promoting collaboration in a multi-disciplinary and/or multi-cultural team setting.
• Balances strategic oversight with appropriate attention to detail in a fast-paced environment
• Strong leadership and organizational skills.
• Experience managing projects and timelines
• Operates with a high degree of autonomy in a dynamic, ambiguous environment

Responsibilities

• Owns outcomes of key cross-functional strategic initiatives
• Creates and owns the overall program roadmap to deploy and monitor progress against short-term and long-term strategic goals of the assigned initiatives
• Applies sophisticated project management techniques, monitors project progress, and ensure on schedule, mitigates risk, and proactively addresses issues to ensure project success.
• Owns executive-ready deliverable outputs from strategic initiatives
• Drives and sustains strategic relationships and alignment across the sector.
• Provides strategic oversight for technical and process integration across cross-functional initiatives.
• Develops varied materials, presentations, and/or tools to support department's remit and strategies.
• Leads initiatives to develop, optimize and improve processes, associated systems/applications, training and communications.
• Collaborates to strategically solve problems and process improve with key sector level team members.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees