Project Manager, Large Projects CMD Commercial

Work Schedule

First Shift (Days)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

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.

DESCRIPTION:
At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll manage complex strategic projects that make a meaningful impact on our mission to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. As Sr Project Manager, you'll guide successful execution of important initiatives across functions, ensuring timely delivery, risk mitigation, and stakeholder alignment. You'll manage multiple high-priority projects simultaneously, coordinating cross-functional teams through the complete project lifecycle while maintaining focus on business objectives and quality standards. Your expertise will be instrumental in implementing process improvements, new technologies, and transformational changes that enhance operational efficiency and customer success.

Project Manager – Large Projects

Administrative Project Management Focus

Position Summary

The Project Manager – Large Projects is responsible for the administrative coordination, governance, documentation, tracking, and reporting required to support large, complex projects. This role ensures that project information is organized, timelines are visible, actions are tracked, risks and issues are documented, and stakeholders have accurate information to support decision-making.

This role does not own solution design, deployment strategy, customer adoption, operational readiness, or business execution. Instead, the Project Manager provides the structure, cadence, documentation, and administrative discipline needed to keep large projects organized and transparent.

This is an individual contributor role that works closely with project sponsors, workstream owners, Solution Deployment Leaders, commercial teams, operations, finance, legal, quality, supply chain, digital, and other stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

Project Administration and Coordination

• 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.

Governance Support

• 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.

Timeline and Milestone Tracking

• 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.

Reporting and Communication Support

• 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 stakeho