Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Thermo Fisher Scientific is a global leader in serving science, and they are seeking a Senior Project Manager for Large Projects to manage complex strategic projects. The role involves guiding the execution of important initiatives, ensuring timely delivery, risk mitigation, and stakeholder alignment.
Responsibilities
- Maintain project plans, timelines, milestones, action trackers, decision logs, risk logs, issue logs, and dependency trackers
- Coordinate project meetings, governance forums, steering committee reviews, and stakeholder update sessions
- Prepare meeting agendas, capture minutes, document decisions, and follow up on assigned actions
- Ensure project documentation is complete, current, organized, and accessible to appropriate stakeholders
- Support consistent use of project templates, tools, trackers, and reporting formats
- Support project governance by maintaining meeting cadence, escalation records, approval documentation, and decision history
- Track required approvals, sign-offs, stage gates, and governance checkpoints
- Ensure project sponsors and workstream owners have accurate information for reviews and decisions
- Maintain visibility to open decisions, overdue actions, unresolved issues, and upcoming milestones
- Help ensure governance processes are followed consistently across large projects
- Maintain the master project timeline based on input from workstream owners and accountable business leads
- Track progress against milestones, deliverables, and agreed due dates
- Identify and flag timeline variances, overdue items, and dependency gaps for review by accountable owners
- Consolidate updates from multiple workstreams into a single project view
- Support visibility to critical path items without owning execution of the underlying work
- Prepare project status reports, dashboards, executive summaries, and stakeholder updates
- Consolidate inputs from workstream owners, deployment leaders, finance, operations, commercial teams, and other functions
- Ensure project reports clearly reflect status, milestones, risks, issues, decisions needed, and next steps
- Maintain accurate records of project communications and leadership updates
- Support consistent and timely information flow across project stakeholders
- Maintain risk, issue, action, and dependency logs
- Document risk descriptions, issue status, owners, target dates, mitigation updates, and escalation history
- Follow up with accountable owners to obtain updates and closure status
- Flag overdue actions, unresolved issues, or missing information to project sponsors or designated leads
- Support escalation documentation but does not own resolution of technical, operational, commercial, or deployment issues
- Track project budget information, purchase orders, invoices, resource assumptions, and financial updates as directed by finance or project sponsors
- Consolidate budget and resource inputs for project reporting
- Maintain documentation related to project spend, approvals, forecasts, and financial decisions
- Support administrative coordination of vendor documentation, contracts, statements of work, and related records
- Flag missing financial information, pending approvals, or budget variances for review by accountable owners
- Maintain organized project repositories, files, version control, and document naming standards
- Ensure key project documents, approvals, meeting records, reports, and governance materials are stored appropriately
- Support audit readiness by maintaining clear records of decisions, approvals, risks, changes, and status updates
- Capture lessons learned and archive project materials at project close
- Support continuous improvement of project administration tools, templates, and documentation practices
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in business, operations, project management, life sciences, engineering, or related field preferred
- Experience supporting large projects, complex initiatives, project management offices, commercial operations, business operations, or administrative project coordination
- Strong skills in project documentation, meeting coordination, status reporting, action tracking, and records management
- Ability to consolidate information from multiple stakeholders into clear, accurate project updates
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Ability to manage multiple deadlines, documents, trackers, and reporting cycles
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Proficiency with project management, collaboration, reporting, and productivity tools
- Ability to work in a matrixed organization and follow up with stakeholders across functions and levels
- Experience supporting large customer, commercial, operational, supply chain, digital, or transformation projects
- Experience in life sciences, pharmaceutical, biopharma, healthcare, diagnostics, laboratory, manufacturing, or regulated environments
- Familiarity with project governance, PMO practices, stage-gate processes, and executive reporting
- Experience with tools such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams, Power BI, CRM, ERP, or similar platforms
- Understanding of budget tracking, purchase order processes, vendor documentation, or contract administration
- Project management certification or training preferred but not required
Benefits
- A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
- Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
- At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
- Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
- Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount
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