Project Manager, Large Projects CMD Commercial

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

Requirements:

• 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