Manager, Program Management - Remote

Project Management Manager

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 day by enabling 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 take science a step beyond through solutions that address some of the world's toughest challenges, including helping bring life-changing therapies to patients.

Join Thermo Fisher Scientific as a Project Management Manager supporting the process development organization within the BIO network. In this role, you will lead project management activities across a portfolio of client programs, partnering closely with technical, analytical, manufacturing, quality, regulatory, business, and client-facing teams to enable successful execution from early development through technology transfer and manufacturing readiness.

The Project Management Manager will provide leadership, structure, and oversight for Bio Process Sciences project execution, ensuring alignment of scope, timelines, resources, risks, dependencies, and deliverables. This role is responsible for driving cross-functional execution, strengthening communication across internal teams, supporting client commitments, and enabling timely progression of programs toward key development and clinical manufacturing milestones.

The successful candidate will bring strong project management discipline, people leadership, stakeholder management, and technical understanding of biologics process development. This individual will help establish and continuously improve project management processes, support team prioritization, proactively identify and escalate risks, and ensure project teams are equipped to deliver high-quality outcomes in a dynamic CDMO environment.

Education:

• Advanced degree plus 6 years of relevant experience, or Bachelor's degree plus 8 years of relevant experience in project/program management, process development, manufacturing, or related industry settings
• Preferred fields of study:
  Life Sciences, Biology, Biochemistry, Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Business, or related field
• Professional certifications preferred, such as PMP, Lean Six Sigma, Agile, or other project/program management certifications
• Experience in biologics, bioprocess development, CDMO operations, GMP/GxP environments, or pharmaceutical development strongly preferred

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage project management activities for BIO BPS process development programs, including project planning, execution, monitoring, risk management, escalation, and delivery of key milestones
• Oversee a portfolio of biologics process development projects, ensuring alignment of scope, timelines, resources, dependencies, deliverables, and client commitments
• Partner closely with analytical development, upstream and downstream process development, quality, business management, supply chain, and manufacturing sites to drive integrated program execution
• Manage, coach, and develop project managers and/or project coordinators supporting BPS programs, including prioritization guidance, performance feedback, workload management, and professional development
• Establish and maintain clear project governance, meeting cadence, action tracking, escalation pathways, decision-making forums, and communication expectations across cross-functional teams
• Drive proactive identification, communication, and mitigation of project risks, issues, scope changes, timeline impacts, and resource constraints
• Support client-facing project teams by ensuring accurate, timely, and transparent updates related to process development progress, risks, mitigation plans, and deliverables
• Facilitate alignment across drug substance process development, analytical development, manufacturing, quality, and technology transfer teams to support successful program progression
• Ensure project plans are integrated with key development milestones, including process development, scale-up, material generation, process…