Global Lead Project Manager

🕒 August 20

🇲🇽 Mexico – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👷‍♀️ Project 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

• Serve as the primary contact between the sponsor and the organization at the project level • Ensure internal and external escalation pathways are followed • Define responsibilities and communication pathways for secondary project leads when required • Own overall cross-functional project delivery for time, cost, and quality • Ensure financial stewardship, resource alignment to budget, out-of-scope activity management, Con Mod negotiations, and timeline execution • Establish, communicate, and manage customer expectations • Drive project-level risk identification and issue resolution • Ensure project team compliance with organizational policies, SOPs, ICH-GCP, regulatory, and project-specific requirements • Support and review study budget planning and management • Communicate study status, cost, and issues to COM and COPL • Serve as escalation point for vendors managed by Strategic Partners and/or other CROs • Oversee Strategic Partner/CRO/vendor selection, budget and contract negotiation, performance supervision, and escalation of issues to governance committees

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification • 8+ years of previous comparable experience • Minimum of 3+ years’ experience as a Global Lead Project Manager in the conduct of clinical trials • Several years of demonstrated experience in end-to-end vendor management and oversight across a broad range of vendor types • Vendor management experience • Experience supporting/reviewing study budget planning and management • Experience with external spend related to study execution • Experience working with COM, COPL, Global Program Management, and Finance • Experience communicating study status, cost, and issues • Experience overseeing Strategic Partners/CRO/vendor selection, budget and contract negotiation, and performance supervision • Technical and systems competency, including Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and organization systems • Ability to delegate and effectively prioritize workload in a frequently changing environment • Effective oral and written communication and presentation skills • Proactive, solutions-oriented, and adaptable to changing priorities and situations • Advanced therapeutic area knowledge and clinical development guidelines and directives • Strong understanding of project management principles, including time, quality, cost, and financial acumen • Interpersonal and customer service skills, including leading, motivating, and coordinating cross-functional project teams • Good judgment, decision-making, critical, analytical, and strategic thinking skills • Ability to negotiate, persuade, and influence others, including cross-cultural awareness

🏖️ Benefits

• Collaboration and development opportunities • Reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities • Equal opportunity employment