Senior Project Manager

When you join us at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll be part of a smart, driven team that shares your passion for exploration and discovery. With revenues of $22 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and opportunities to make significant contributions to the world.

Our incredible technologies within AIG make a real difference to our customers and support our mission. We enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are protecting our cities, ensuring the availability of clean drinking water or monitoring the safety of our food supply, they all have a common goal – providing test data that allows for the right decisions to be made. Our customers are the focus of everything we do and we provide them the instruments, equipment, software and services to do what they do best. AIG is a global business and includes roughly 10,000 colleagues around the world. More specifically the Senior Project Manager role is part of the Chromotography and Mass Spectrometry Life Science Division located in San Jose, CA. At this site, we offer customers a complete range of high-end analytical instruments and software services that support customers within proteomics, clinical research, forensic toxicology, pharmaceutical, biotech, food safety, and environmental market segments

How will you make an impact?
The Sr. Project Manager will be responsible for leading cross-functional product development teams by assertively driving new product commercialization programs that deliver outstanding quality products in coordination with other departments/teams.

What will you do?

• Responsible for all aspects of product development from Concept, to Product Launch and completing with Project Closure.

• Act as project champion and project “general manager”; manage team to execute all project deliverables; lead cross-functional core team.

• Coordinate, synchronize and manage overall project schedule. Accountable for execution on project timelines.

• Manage project budget; track actual versus plan and resolve issues as they arise.
  Review team progress against requirements and plans; resolve deviations.

• Assist Core Team Members in resolving extended team and functional issues

How will you get here?
Education

• Bachelor’s degree (Engineering or Life Science related degree).

Experience

• Excellent computer skills (Microsoft Office)

• 5 or more years of combined product development and project management experience with a preference for instrument and software experience.

• Ability to manage multiple projects at the same time with cross-site stakeholders

• Outstanding organizational, planning, process development, communication, analytical, and interpersonal skills

• Ability to self-manage and motivate

• Astute attention to detail and accuracy

• PMP certification preferred

• Mass Spectrometry experience preferred

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, each one of our 70,000 extraordinary minds has a unique story to tell. Join us and contribute to our singular mission—enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

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