Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Job Description
Senior Manager, Program Management
As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.
Location/Division Specific Information
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Work Location: Carlsbad, California (on-site)
Group: Life Sciences Solutions Group
Division: Biosciences Division
How will you make an impact?
The Senior Manager's responsibilities are three-fold:
Drive the process to develop and refine strategy and annual plans for the R&D investment portfolio. Demonstrate Program Management standard processes, with the goal of not only delivering products of high quality and value to the organization, plus delivering them within agreed-upon schedule, resources, budget, and scope. Functionally develop a strong team who leads New-Product Introduction (NPI) programs.
Portfolio Management:
- Partners with and Business Unit (BU) Sr. Director Portfolio & Program Management and Business Segment product management, R&D, marketing and finance leadership to increase the return on R&D investment.
- Leads review of the portfolio with Business Segment leadership team, drives prioritization, status updates and revenue reporting for all Business Segment New-Product-Introduction (NPI) programs. Facilitates creation, implementation and curation of a NPI program portfolio roadmap, aligned to business strategy.
- Integral member of leadership team and supplies key information to divisional monthly business reviews and quarterly business reviews to represent functional organization.
- Represents PPM on NPI Program steering committee, also known as the Product Approval Committee (PAC), working closely with functional and business leadership team members.
Program Management:
- Leads critical NPI programs from concept through commercial launch. Acts as program champion and head of a cross-functional team; develops bottoms-up plans and proactively leads program risks, to deliver results. Solves problems independently. Acts as information link between core team and leadership; prepares and presents program reviews to PAC as core team leader.
- Mentors others leading programs in the Business Segment, providing them with high-level context and mentorship.
- Actively coaches to drive NPI process improvements. Sponsors change initiatives and builds standard processes regarding new product development within the Business.
Functional Management:
Communicates standards of program management role and responsibility, relative to band level. Shares feedback and real-time mentorship regarding performance, as well as creation of personal development plans to improve skills, as needed.
Hires and allocates program management resources.
How will you get here?
Education Requirements:
Bachelor's degree, preferably in the Life Sciences
PMP certification preferred but not required.
Experience:
- 10+ combined new product development and program management experience, including voice of customer experience activities.
- 2 plus years of direct people management experience.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Proficient in English language.
- Work is performed without significant direction and can recommend modifications to overall direction of portfolio or program in order to meet outlined goals and objectives.
- Resolves problems where analysis may require in depth analysis, as well as innovation.
- Interacts and establishes strong relationships with core and extended team members, functional managers, senior management, and customers. Navigates global sites and timezones.
- Able to influence others, gain acceptance in a variety of situations.
- Develops and delivers presentations different settings.
- Collects and reviews feedback on processes and continually drives practical improvements.
- Prior experience with cell biology instrumentation, consumables and reagents is positive.
Behavioral Proficiencies:
This person must possess the following behavioral proficiencies and characteristics. Please note that these are regarded by Thermo Fisher Scientific as equally important to technical proficiencies and experiences. Someone who displays the right demeanor and characteristics for the role will therefore be considered even if they lack technical expertise in one or two of the areas mentioned previously.
- Highly responsible and accountable. Detail oriented.
- A strong, pro-active, effective, 'can-do' demeanor!
- Intrinsically motivated and committed to professional development of others.
- Enjoys interacting with people and communicates concisely at all levels of the organization. Familiarity with matrix organizations.
- Self-managing and self-motivating, able to prioritize tasks and meet timelines and communicated expectations.
- Willing to put in extra effort (and hours when required) to get the job done accurately.
This position has not been approved for relocation assistance.
Compensation and Benefits
The salary range estimated for this position based in California is $143,000.00-$190,600.00.
This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:
- A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
- Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
- At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
- Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
- Employees' Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount
For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards