Thermo Fisher Scientific—Project Mgr-Portfolio Mgmt

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Description: Work Schedule Standard (Mon-Fri) Environmental Conditions Office Job Description As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer. Description: As a Project Mgr-Portfolio Mgmt, you will lead complex, enterprise-wide IT projects and programs, fostering continuous improvement and innovation. You'll independently manage the full lifecycle of IT projects. Builds integrated plans, manage scope, schedule, resources, dependencies, quality expectations, and drives delivery to committed outcomes. Education/Experience: - Bachelor’s degree or Master's Degree with 5+ years of IT project management experience, including large-scale enterprise implementations. - Preferred Fields of Study: Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, Engineering, or related field - Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is preferred Major Job Responsibilities: - Lead initiation through closure for projects using integrated scope, schedule, resource, dependency, and quality plans. - Manage business, IT, vendor, and functional stakeholders to secure decisions and maintain alignment. - Own RAID management, issue resolution, change control, governance approvals, and project health reporting. - Manage project budget, forecast, actuals, accruals, CapEx/OpEx categorization, vendor deliverables, SOW obligations, and invoice validation. - Coordinate requirements, design, testing, release, adoption, operational/BAU transition, and benefit-tracking activities, ensuring accountable business owners are identified for post-project benefit realization. - Manage risks and trade-offs with fact-based options and recommended recovery actions, with applicable escalations. - Capture lessons learned and improve PMO delivery practices. Must Have skills: - Expert in project management methodologies including Agile, Scrum, SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), and Waterfall - Proficiency with project management tools (Planview, JIRA, Microsoft Project) - Strong financial acumen and budget management capabilities - Demonstrated ability to guide and collaborate across multiple teams and organizational levels - Excellent communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal with the ability to influence across levels and functions. - Proficiency with MS Office suite and project management software - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; sound judgement in complex or ambiguous situations. - Demonstrated ownership and commitment to achieving project and organizational goals. - Motivates, empowers, and develops teams through trust and collaboration. - Strong business acumen — connects project outcomes to broader business strategy and customer value. - Knowledge of change management principles and methodologies - Adaptable and learning-oriented; embraces change and continually seeks improvement. Good to have skills: - Demonstrated success managing complex technical projects in regulated environments (GxP, SOX, HIPAA, etc.) - Life sciences or pharmaceutical industry experience Working Hours: India: 05:30 PM to 02:30 AM IST Philippines: 08:00 PM to 05:00 AM PHT Skills: project management, agile methodologies, scrum, safe, waterfall, planview, jira, financial acumen, stakeholder management, vendor management, change management, ms office, team leadership, analytical skills, problem solving, presentation skills, business acumen, project health reporting, issue resolution, microsoft project, budget management