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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

• Provide program-level and strategic oversight to one or more Medical Writing groups • Develop and communicate strategic direction for Medical Writing groups • Recruit, engage, manage, and motivate staff • Develop organizational structure and communicate departmental goals and priorities • Lead changes in departmental remit, processes, and operations • Develop and manage the departmental budget • Promote and advocate for Medical Writing business needs • Build relationships with other PPD departments and identify cross-functional collaboration opportunities • Provide creative, novel, and strategically aligned global ideas • Identify and develop new Medical Writing business opportunities • Partner with business development and senior management to secure new business through client presentations, contract negotiations, proposals, and budgets • Resolve or escalate serious project issues and risks to senior management • Prepare reports regarding significant project issues • Lead complex client management issues • Assume primary responsibility for the visibility and reputation of the Medical Writing group within PPD

🎯 Requirements

• Previous experience comparable to 15+ years, or equivalent and relevant combination of education, training, and experience • 7+ years of management responsibility • Advanced leadership skills • Strong leadership skills, including performance management, training, mentoring, directing, and motivating staff • Extensive business knowledge and comprehensive understanding of the organization and functional areas • Excellent project management skills, including organizing, planning, budgeting, timeline development, resource allocation, and workload forecasting • Extensive knowledge of global/regional medical writing and regulatory requirements for clinical trials, marketing authorization, and late phase procedures • Experience across the product development lifecycle • Ability to contribute to and drive strategic planning • Effective communication, logic, and influence • Innovation and leadership in developing Medical Writing ideas and process improvements • Demonstrated ability to build teams, maintain collaborative relationships, initiate cross-functional mentoring, anticipate resistance, influence without authority, and provide senior-level presence • Ability to communicate, negotiate, engage, and support potential clients and corporate leaders across functional areas • Strong presentation skills • Excellent interpersonal, problem-solving, judgment, and decision-making skills • Self-motivated and adaptable

🏖️ Benefits

• Global team environment • Resources to achieve individual career goals • Collaboration and development opportunities • Reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities • Benefits and privileges of employment