Associate Director – Program Management

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🌐 Bulgaria, Poland, +1 more countries – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📋 Program Manager

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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1956

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Healthcare • Logistics • Manufacturing

Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of more than $40 billion. Their mission is to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer by supporting life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing laboratory productivity, and improving patient health through diagnostics and the development of life-changing therapies. With a global team, they offer innovative technologies and pharmaceutical services through brands such as Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon, and PPD.

📋 Description

• Lead and oversee strategic transformation initiatives across business functions • Establish program structures, governance frameworks, delivery methodologies, and execution standards • Manage multiple concurrent projects within the transformation portfolio • Track milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and critical decisions across programs • Ensure transformation objectives align with business strategy • Develop and maintain PMO governance processes, tools, templates, and reporting standards • Facilitate steering committee meetings, executive reviews, and status reporting • Provide portfolio-level visibility into program health, resource utilization, budget, and KPIs • Drive accountability across workstreams and stakeholders • Collaborate with senior leaders, business teams, IT, operations, finance, HR, and external partners • Serve as a trusted advisor to program sponsors and leadership teams • Influence decision-making and drive alignment across competing priorities • Facilitate communication across all levels of the organization • Support organizational change management activities • Identify process improvement opportunities and implement best practices • Promote standardized project management methodologies and tools • Drive operational excellence and continuous improvement • Monitor program budgets, forecasts, and resource plans • Identify and mitigate delivery risks and escalations proactively • Ensure compliance with organizational policies and governance standards

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Life Sciences, Operations, or related field • 8–12+ years of experience in PMO, program management, transformation, or strategic initiatives • Proven experience independently leading large-scale, enterprise-wide transformation programs • Strong understanding of project/program management methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid) • Experience managing cross-functional stakeholders in matrix organizations • Excellent executive communication and presentation skills • Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving abilities

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement