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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

• Lead end-to-end execution of software development projects intended for commercial release, ensuring delivery against committed scope, schedule, quality, and business objectives. • Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestone plans, dependency maps, risk registers, issue logs, resource plans, decision logs, and status reports. • Manage projects across Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery models, applying the appropriate planning, governance, and execution practices for each project and SDLC process. • Facilitate project planning, sprint or increment planning, release planning, risk reviews, retrospectives, and stakeholder alignment meetings as appropriate for the delivery model. • Partner with Engineering, Product Management, Program Management, and other stakeholders to define project objectives, deliverables, success criteria, and release expectations. • Define, track and communicate project-level KPIs, delivery metrics and data-driven project status updates that provide stakeholders with transparent visibility into project health, including progress against plan, milestone adherence, delivery risks, dependencies, open decisions, resource impacts, and release readiness. • Establish and maintain project governance, including meeting cadence, decision forums, escalation paths, documentation expectations, milestone tracking, and release readiness reviews. • Proactively identify, assess, and manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and resource constraints; escalate with clear recommendations, options, and trade-offs when needed. • Drive accountability across cross-functional teams to ensure timely completion of deliverables and resolution of blockers. • Ensure project execution aligns with applicable SDLC processes, business unit governance expectations, quality requirements, and other relevant standards. • Represent Engineering project management in cross-functional program forums as needed, ensuring engineering plans, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs are clearly communicated and understood. • Partner with the Director, Engineering Delivery & Excellence and cohort to support improvements to project management practices, operating mechanisms, metrics, templates, and delivery reporting. • Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives that improve engineering delivery predictability, efficiency, quality, and stakeholder visibility. • Serve as a senior project management resource and role model for execution discipline, stakeholder communication, risk management, and structured problem solving.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Project Management, or a related field • 7+ years of experience managing software development, R&D, technical, or new product development projects • Experience managing software projects intended for commercial product release • Demonstrated experience managing projects using Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery approaches • Strong understanding of software development lifecycle processes, including requirements, design, development, verification, testing, deployment and release • Experience leading cross-functional project teams in a matrixed organization without direct authority • Strong ability to manage scope, schedule, dependencies, risks, issues, resources, and stakeholder expectations • Ability to communicate project status, risks, options, and trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences • Strong facilitation, problem-solving, decision management, and escalation skills • Experience supporting global or distributed engineering teams • Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, Confluence, SharePoint, or similar tools • PMP, PMI-ACP, Certified ScrumMaster, SAFe, or similar project management or Agile certification (preferred) • Experience working in a regulated or quality-driven environment (preferred) • Familiarity with quality management systems, GxP, ISO, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, and cybersecurity expectations (preferred) • Experience improving project management processes, reporting, metrics, or SDLC execution practices (preferred) • Experience with Power BI or similar data visualization/reporting tools (preferred) • Practical understanding of AI-assisted engineering and analytics to improve software delivery visibility, project health monitoring, and reporting efficiency (preferred)

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working hours • Professional development opportunities