Director, Project Management - Oversight

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100 countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

Our Project Delivery colleagues within our PPD® clinical research services direct, coordinate and manage the technical and operational aspects of projects, securing the successful completion of clinical trials. This includes collaborating with functional area leads to identify and evaluate fundamental issues on the project and to ensure that solutions are implemented. Project Delivery is vital to helping our customers deliver life-changing therapies.

The Role:

We have a vacancy for a Director, Oversight in our Neuroscience Project Management Team in the EMEA region. The role can be fully remote but also options for hybrid or office based.

Overview

Oversees operational excellence for the department developing strategies to ensure high quality deliverables and successful management of the financial portfolio. Maintains strategic relationships and serves as a senior leadership contact for clients. Provides input to business development and drives the business strategy focusing on innovation, operational efficiency and expansion of the department's global footprint.

The Oversight Director is accountable for strategic indication or client-specific portfolio management within a Therapeutic Unit. Provides therapeutic expertise in project delivery execution, demonstrating the ability to react quickly and appropriately to escalations. Provokes critical thinking in the Project Lead related to delivery operations, financial negotiations and risk mitigations/issue management for a project. Drives the overall strategy development for proposals and pre-proposal opportunities.

Rare Disease Pillar

Please note for this role the applicant must have Rare Disease therapeutic indication experience in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), ALS, Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD), Myasthenia gravis (MG), Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT), Huntington’s Disease or Myotonic Dystrophy.

A day in the life:

• Accountable for strategic indication or client-specific portfolio management within a Therapeutic Unit.
• Serves as senior level or executive contact.
• May review financial forecasting of TA.
• Acts as a Champion for organizational changes, offerings, developments and lead workstreams.
• Expertly navigates the need to dive in/dive out of situations while ensuring the Project Lead remains empowered.
• Provokes critical thinking and drives innovation in Project Lead related to execution of delivery, financial negotiations and prioritization.
• Provides insight into proposal strategy in prep for bid defense.
• Initiates collaboration with Therapeutic Unit Head in development and implementation of business growth strategies.
• Maintains awareness and engages as appropriate in the Con Mod process.
• Communicates with People Manager(s) to support the development of the employee providing expertise and perspective related to client needs, indication and therapeutic knowledge.
  
  

Keys to Success:

Education

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
  
  

Experience

• Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 15 years).
• 7 years of management responsibility
• Advanced leadership skills
• Rare Disease therapeutic experience as outlined above
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Advanced understanding of global/regional/national regulatory requirements for clinical trials, licensing, and lifecycle management.
• In-depth understanding of regulatory specialty areas, such as preclinical, clinical, CMC, publishing, etc.
• Advanced knowledge of medical terminology, statistical concepts, and guidelines.
• Outstanding analytical, investigative, and problem-solving skills.
• Expert financial acumen with practical application of budgeting, forecasting, and resource management.
• Accomplished executive presence and consultation skills.
• Superior critical and strategic thinking skills.
• Expert negotiation and marketing skills with the ability to drive results.
• Superior judgment, decision-making, escalation, and risk management skills.
• Proven ability to drive corporate strategies to capture, engage, and retain repeat customers.
  
  

Please submit your application online - close date 30th April 2025