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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1956

🧬 Biotechnology

💊 Pharmaceuticals

🔬 Science

Biotechnology • Pharmaceuticals • Science

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

• Own and oversee a portfolio of innovation opportunities, ensuring coherence, prioritization, and alignment to strategic and commercial objectives. • Lead identification, shaping, prioritization, and progression of opportunities, ensuring sustained focus on the highest-value initiatives. • Guide portfolio prioritization and investment trade-offs, balancing emerging opportunity development with scaling of validated concepts. • Contribute to governance, portfolio reviews, and investment decision-making activities across the innovation landscape. • Oversee the development and communication of the enterprise innovation story, ensuring a clear, consistent, and compelling narrative across internal stakeholders, clients, partners, and external industry audiences.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Business, Science, Technology, Engineering, or a related field • Advanced degree (MBA, MS) preferred • Previous experience leading innovation, transformation, strategy, product discovery, or technology-enabled business initiatives (comparable to 10+ years’ experience) • Experience leading large-scale or enterprise-level portfolios, strategic initiatives, or cross-functional innovation programs. • Demonstrated success shaping and progressing high-impact innovation opportunities through structured discovery, validation, and transition activities. • Experience influencing senior and executive stakeholders within matrixed organizations. • Strong leadership experience across cross-functional business, digital, data, and technology environments. • Strong commercial awareness and understanding of how innovation supports growth, differentiation, and competitive positioning. • Understanding of emerging technologies, digital transformation, and innovation trends relevant to clinical research and healthcare. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Retirement plans • Paid time off • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development