Sr. Global Technology Transfer Program Manager

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Safety Standards, Cleanroom: no hair products, jewelry, makeup, nail polish, perfume, exposed piercings, facial hair etc... allowed, Office, Some degree of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) required (safety glasses, gowning, gloves, lab coat, ear plugs etc.)

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:
Guide cross-functional teams to deliver strategic R&D projects that advance Thermo Fisher Scientific's mission of enabling customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Partner with stakeholders across R&D, Business Units, Operations, Marketing, and other functions to drive successful development and commercialization of innovative products and solutions. Provide strategic direction in planning, executing and monitoring complex projects while maintaining focus on timelines, budgets and quality. Address and mitigate risks, facilitate stakeholder alignment, and ensure effective communication at all levels. Support developing project managers and foster a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration.

Position Summary:

The Sr. Global Technology Transfer Program Manager, PPMO, DPD is part of the Global PPMO, Customer Operations Department under Drug Product Division (DPD) and responsible for leading development and change management of TT policies, standardized governance and execution standards across the OSD and Steriles business units within Drug Product Division.

Sr. Global TT Program Manager will lead development and establish repeatable frameworks / TT Playbook, ensuring cross-network alignment, enabling consistent risk management for site to site TTs and accelerating adoption of new tools and best practices.

Sr. Global TT Program Manager will demonstrate the ability to independently handle a portfolio of large, complex, multifaceted client projects through creative problem solving, cross-functional teamwork, collaboration, partnership enables successful project delivery in this role!   

The scope of the position covers four major areas:

• Technical Excellence
• Program Management (Tactical and Strategic)
• Client Experience and Relationship Management
• Relationship Management Growth.

SPECIFIC ASSIGNMENTS/PRIMARY ACTIVITIES:

1. Global Technology Transfer Program Management:

• Serve as program lead for complex site-to-site tech transfers, including transfers driven by capacity, business continuity, network strategy, or lifecycle changes.
• Build transfer playbooks and “right-first-time” execution patterns to reduce cycle time and minimize deviations.
• Design, implement, and lead Tech Transfer governance (e.g., Transfer Council, Stage Gate Review Boards, portfolio reviews), escalation pathways, RACI frameworks, and standard stage gate deliverables and implement across the network.
• Provide clear executive communication on portfolio health: risks, constraints, trade-offs, and decision points
• Accountable for end-to-end governance, planning, execution, customer relationship management, and ownership of assigned site-to-site TTs (development and commercial) throughout their life cycle across both OSD and Steriles business units within DPD.
• Maintain detailed and integrated project plans, timelines, RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies), action registers, and decision logs.
• Lead organization of site-to-site lessons learned / stage gate process to ensure proactive risk mitigation, application of best practices that results into schedule adherence/improvement and consistent project execution.   
• Negotiate project conflicts within the company and with the customer stakeholders, ensuring resolutions that are amenable to both parties and/or informing management of potential risks & issues.
• Generate key documentation including the Technology Transfer List, Gap Analysis that includes process design, Technology Transfer Plan, Technology Transfer Report, Integrated Project Timeline, Action Item lists and ensure protocol/report are issued according to project’s timelines.
• Manages project efficiently in different systems to provi