Program Manager III, GMP Labs

Job Title: Program Manager III, GMP Labs Job Location: Remote, Wisconsin, USA Job Location Type: Remote Job Contract Type: Full-time Job Seniority Level: Work Schedule First Shift (Days) Environmental Conditions Adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Safety Standards Job Description Program Manager III Location: Remote, United States Department: Cell and Gene Therapy This is a fully remote role supporting our GMP Lab in Middleton, Wisconsin. We welcome applicants from all locations within the US. 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 screening. At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future. Our PPD® Laboratory Services team has a direct impact on improving patient health through the expertise of scientists, industry thought-leaders and therapeutic experts. As the world leader in serving science, our laboratory professionals bring their commitment to accuracy and quality to deliver groundbreaking innovations The Role The Program Manager III is a client facing role responsible for managing the client relationship and on time delivery of program objectives. In this role, you would oversee the coordination and management of a program by monitoring program/project status, ensuring adherence to timelines and budgets, and aligning goals of projects to meet needs of the program. You would act as the primary liaison between the client, business development, and the project team to facilitate the flow of information between all parties. Additionally, the Program Manager III works closely with laboratory management to ensure that the project deliverables meet customer expectations and financial commitments, negotiates and makes real-time decisions with the client, drives compliance to company and project management standards across departments for a cohesive customer experience, provides internal consulting on project management issues and identifies opportunities for process and efficiency improvement, and acts as chief liaison to the operational personnel of major clients and is responsible for large study programs. Essential Functions: - Facilitates routine client facing meetings and attends internal meetings - Coordinates client visits in tandem with Business Development and Lab Operations management - Supports/Leads program governance model - Oversees complex stability launch coordination - Responsible for the FTE project management, including setup, monitoring and completion - Responsible for client project prioritization - Establishes project status trackers, distributes to project team, and reviews output to ensure project deliverables are met - Evaluates and escalates risks across projects, monitoring and soliciting feedback - Responsible for projections/forecasts for large FTE programs, adhering to client budgets and utilization targets, adjusting forecasts or project priority weekly as necessary; communicate routine FTE utilization and spend. - Manages contract process in tandem with Business Development, owns individual client project contract renewals, ensures appropriate review from relevant stakeholders; drives new