Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Job Description
At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on - now and in the future.
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Location/Division Specific Information
Our PPD® Laboratory Services team has a direct impact on improving patient health through the expertise of scientists, industry thought-leaders and therapeutic experts. As the world leader in serving science, our laboratory professionals bring their commitment to accuracy and quality to deliver groundbreaking innovations.
Discover Impactful Work:
Manages a large regional and functional team within the department. Works effectively across multiple divisions to direct the delivery of projects within cost, time and quality requirements. Collaborates with senior leadership to provide continuous development/improvement of business processes to support cross-functional teams and to ensure that work is uniform, complete and managed
appropriately. Serves as a liaison and provides expertise for the department. Assists in resource utilization, policy development, and implementation of goals. Oversees or leads strategic initiatives within the area and collaborates with peers.
A day in the Life:
- Manages staff, which may include interviewing and selection, job description preparation, professional development, goal setting, performance management, coaching and mentoring, employee counseling, and separations.
- Approves courses of action on salary administration, hiring, corrective action, and terminations. Reviews and approves time records, expense reports, requests for leave, and overtime
- Ensures the timely execution of clinical trials with a focus on quality deliverables for a segment of the business which may include an entire therapeutic group within a region. Develops and drives the specific and overall Therapeutic Area
- Strategies to ensure optimum performance and achievement of annual plans and targets. Facilitates hand-off meetings and kick-off meetings to identify potential risks and work with the project team to develop and communicate contingency plans. Ensures project risks and potential contingencies impacting time/quality/cost of deliverables are discussed with Senior Management through appropriate escalation pathways. Reviews and assesses project profitability through the identification of "out of scope" activity in a timely manner and supporting follow through on all aspects of contract modification.
- Manages the overall budgeting activity of the groups - annual and long range forecast.
- Communicates with sponsor(s) regularly to obtain direction and feedback on implementing scope of work as well as performance to date. Identifies unusual or significant problems encountered during the course of a clinical trial and proposes strategies for preventing or correcting significant problems.
- Assists in business development activities to obtain additional contracts by writing and reviewing proposals, making presentations to potential clients and representing the location/division at appropriate professional meetings and conferences. Fosters client relationships and supervise strategic sell initiative of the division
Keys to Success:
Education and Experience:
- 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 10+ years).
- 5+ years of management responsibility
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• Proven leadership skills
• Comprehensive financial acumen
• Excellent judgment and decision making skills
• Effective oral and written communication skills including the ability to communicate in English
• Excellent interpersonal skills and proven problem solving ability
• Effective organizational and negotiation skills
• Expert knowledge of project management principles and applications
• Knowledge of budgeting, forecasting and resource management
• Ability to build relationships and work effectively in matrix organizations
• Knowledge of regulatory guidelines and directives
• Skilled in process improvement, especially as it applies to clinical trials, clinical development and
project management
• Knowledge of medical therapeutic areas and medical terminology
• Strong marketing skills
• Strong computer skills including Microsoft Office skills for analysis and presentation of data
Benefits
We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!