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Senior Staff Program Manager, Clinical Sequencing

Thermo Fisher Scientific
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 21 Jan 2026
💰 $143,000/yr

About the role

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.

Location/Division-Specific Information:

This position can be located in Austin, TX, Carlsbad, CA, or remotely. Relocation assistance is NOT provided. 

*Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

*Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, which includes a drug screen.

Discover Impactful Work:

As Senior Staff Program Manager, Clinical Sequencing, you will lead the development and commercialization of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) instrument and assay solutions.  The RUO and regulated solutions you create will advance the Oncology technology roadmap within the Clinical Sequencing Division.  This position reports to the Director of NPI Program Management. 

 

A Day in the Life:

  • Serve as Core Team Lead for multiple New Product Introductions and Sustaining programs. 

  • Proactively identify risks and mitigations: Develop plans to address, facilitate tradeoff decisions at the portfolio level, raise issues to key stakeholders, remove obstacles, and seek resolution. 

  • Develop and control program timelines with internal functions and external partners. 

  • Build, monitor, and control budgets with Finance and vendors. 

  • Conduct internal and external team meetings: Ensure data-driven decisions, supervise progress, identify & implement risk mitigations, and verify action items are completed to support successful program execution. 

  • Present and communicate to senior leadership at Product Approval Committee (PAC) checkpoint meetings and additional PMO operating mechanisms. 

  • Ensure compliance with the company's Product Commercialization Process (PCP) and Quality Management Systems (QMS) for the development of RUO and regulated products. 

 

Keys to Success: 

Education 

  • BS in Molecular Biology, Genetics, Engineering, or related field required.

  • Master's, MBA, and/

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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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