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.

• Driving the long-term business strategy development addressing partnering organic growth.
• Supporting initiatives that involve multiple divisions to make the most of TFS's extensive resources and capabilities.
• Program managing cross-functional initiatives around strategic focus areas.

• Sits on operational meetings, records next-steps, holds leaders accountable for solving issues, follows up on actions, briefs executive and leads special projects.
• Leads executive, cross-divisional strategic efforts such as development of incremental growth strategies.
• Provides counsel at the executive level on operational issues.
• Works closely with the executive and management team in contributing to the annual planning process to ensure alignment with strategic priorities.
• Identifies potential issues, conducts appropriate research, asks follow up questions, and briefs the executive on key issues.
• Implements, executes and operates a reporting mechanism, including a detailed follow up system to track action items and key responsibilities, which will allow for a timely flow of necessary data (reports, presentations, ideas, issues, questions, information, etc.) in from all relevant departments and direct reports.
• Contributes to strategic planning and translates business performance gaps into performance optimizing strategies.

• University degree in business, life sciences, health care or related field.
• 10+ years of relevant professional experience

• Collaborate with all functional teams across the business to gather input and provide support for critical planning and projects.
• Prepare and share periodic executive reports on the progress of strategic projects and provide updates during business reviews and deep dives using metrics, roadmaps, dashboards & actual financials.
• Foster and sustain strong relationships with all stakeholders, including clients, partners, industry experts, and government entities.
• Evaluate the business portfolio and develop strategic rationale and recommendations on changes to the focus and levels of investment/ resource allocation.
• Work with external and internal teams to define primary research projects scope aligned with the strategic plan and available budget.
• Collaborate with functional leaders to identify and present potential opportunities to senior management for evaluation and decision-making.

• Industry knowledge and thought leadership, with experience in defining strategic roadmaps in regulated life sciences companies
• Excellent strategic, analytical and critical thinking. Proven capability in crafting and implementing strategic plans.
• Customer-focused attitude, along with a solid grasp of customer behavior and preferences. Embraces innovative and forward-thinking strategies for managing customer experience.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, along with executive presence.
• Strong track record of driving operational excellence and continuous improvement.
• Highly self-motivated with ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects and initiatives both short-term and long-term goals.
• Culturally sensitive; lived and/or worked in multiple countries.
• Approximately 25% travel.