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.

• Works collaboratively with government institutions to set project priorities.
• Makes high-level decisions about the overall project direction and works closely with government institutions officials to approve resources.
• Formulates major overall project policies as it relates to research across all phases of the project and advises the highest levels of government institutions leadership in major areas of importance for overall project direction.
• Collaborates with representatives from government institutions as appropriate.
• Provides team oversight.
• Primary point of contact in support of government institutions needs, escalations, and tracking.
• Provides scientific/technical support to the Project Manager to ensure contract compliance throughout the life of the contract.
• Responsible for contract deliverables.
• Drives overall delivery of the project through cross-functional project leadership and ensuring clear communication pathways.
• Drives the risk mitigation process and timeline management.

• A doctoral degree (M.D., Ph.D., or equivalent) in biological, health or life sciences

• Previous government research experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 20+ years).

• Ability to lead staff, including an outstanding ability to communicate with diverse audiences.
• Experience supporting new and in-progress research projects, program deployment and implementation.
• Demonstrated effective leadership abilities, and excellent communication skills with the ability to serve as a spokesperson for government institutions and the project, including on sensitive ethical issues.
• Currently has or the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.

• Work is performed in an office environment with exposure to electrical office equipment.
• Occasional travel locally and internationally
• Frequently stationary for 6-8 hours per day. Repetitive hand movement of both hands with the ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
• Frequent mobility is required.
• Occasional crouching, stooping, bending, and twisting of upper body and neck.
• Light to moderate lifting and carrying (or otherwise moving) objects including luggage and laptop computers with a maximum lift of 15-20 lbs.
• Ability to access and use various computer software developed in-house and off-the-shelf.
• Ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand; with the ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Frequently interacts with others to obtain or relate information to diverse groups.
• Works independently with little guidance or reliance on oral or written instructions and plans work schedules to meet goals. Requires multiple periods of intense concentration.
• Performs a wide range of variable tasks as dictated by variable demands and changing conditions with little predictability as to the occurrence. Ability to perform under stress. Ability to multi-task.
• Regular and consistent attendance.