Staff Program Manager

Posted:
12/9/2025, 4:00:00 PM

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Product

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

By leading collaborative cross-functional teams to define and deliver commitments: demonstrating feasibility for new technologies, commercializing new products, or improving on-market products, all using our stage-gate or iterative processes to deliver to the agreed scope, schedule, and budget, while managing execution, risks, trade-offs, expectations, and communications.

What will you do?            

  • Lead programs and projects, negotiating trade-offs, determining and committing to the right scope, schedule, and budget to deliver winning business results.
  • Drive and track all day-to-day project work, making sure that problems are rapidly identified and resolved, applying state-of-the-art project management tools and techniques to deliver on commitments and in some instances adhere to specific regulatory requirements.
  • Lead project communications and phase approval reviews, providing clear and concise written and verbal communication to all levels of the project team and stakeholders, and tailoring style to a broad range of audiences and situations.


Education/Experience:

  • Bachelor's degree in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Engineering or Life Science required; PMP certification, advanced leadership training, MS, MBA or Ph.D. preferred.
  • 10+ years of life science or medical device product development and 5+ years technical project management experience required; experience with genetic analysis technologies and in-vitro diagnostics preferred.
  • Fluent in English.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

  • Intrinsically motivated, accountable, and committed to professional development.
  • Excellent written and verbal communicator; exceptional relationship builder.
  • Effective at influencing and leading without direct authority.
  • Ability to lead and drive complex decisions and solve problems.
  • Strong product development technical and business expertise.

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Website: https://www.thermofisher.com/

Headquarter Location: Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

Employee Count: 10001+

Year Founded: 2006

IPO Status: Public

Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Debt

Industries: Bioinformatics ⋅ Biotechnology ⋅ Cloud Data Services ⋅ Consulting ⋅ Health Care ⋅ Life Science ⋅ Management Information Systems ⋅ Office Supplies ⋅ Precision Medicine