Manager, Data Science Program Management

Key Skills

Business Strategy, Data science techniques, Effective communication skills, Leadership, Presentation skills, Product Management, Program Management, Project management

Job Description

We help our customers accelerate life sciences research, solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics and increase laboratory productivity. With $1.4 billion invested annually in R&D, our collaborative and diverse teams have the resources they need to drive new discoveries and do cutting-edge research and develop important applications and tools that help millions of lives around the world.

When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work, like helping customers in finding cures for cancer, protecting the environment or making sure our food is safe. Your work will have real-world impact, and you’ll be supported in achieving your career goals.

The Data Science Center of Excellence (COE) is seeking a Manager, Program Management to join the team. The role is a critical member of the team generating $500M+ of attributed revenue annually. Your direct contribution will come from driving the program success of our commercial data science business partners.

How will you make an impact?

Effective strategy, planning, issue resolution, and dependency management are paramount to this role. This person will translate business opportunities into strategic ideas and actions, driving cross-functional alignment and planning, and maintain strong interpersonal relationships with key team members.

The role will co-lead business PODs of highly skilled multi-functional team members focused on delivering business value and an outstanding commercial experience. Teamwork and the ability to co-own results are critical.

What will you do?

• Strategy planning & alignment: Collaborating with business partners, develop near and long-term planning. Set clear strategies, align functional objectives and assure plans for strong execution.
• Opportunity development: Engage commercial and marketing customers to identify emerging opportunities. translate feedback and insights into growth initiatives.
• Prioritization & execution: Drive roadmap alignment with product management, and ensure results meet expected businesses outcomes.

Manage & lead: Ensure cross-functional and cross-business partnership to achieve business results. Build and facilitate communication and review processes to align all parties around shared goals.

• Deliver Change: Implement activities to accelerate adoption and utilization of data science within our sales and digital organizations.

How will you get here?

Education/ Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field is required.
• Master’s degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field strongly preferred. Proven years of professional experience may be considered in lieu of a formal degree.
• 7+ years of Marketing, Commercial or Digital product management, with a proven ability in strategy and program/project management.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Executive presence. Excellent verbal and presentation skills.
• Exceptional ability to influence at leadership and lateral levels.
• Ability to develop and implement strategy. Able to perform against robust growth target, considering various metrics and data inputs.
• Ability to work across a heavily matrixed environment. Effective at interpersonal relationships.
• Strong project management skills with ability to lead short term results concurrent with longer-term strategic achievements.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue exceeding $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies or increasing efficiency in their laboratories, we are here to support them.

Our team of more than 100,000 colleagues delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD.