Senior Project Manager

Thermo Fisher Scientific 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, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them.
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This position is based in Uppsala, where Thermo Fisher develops, manufactures, and markets complete blood test systems to support the clinical diagnosis and monitoring of allergy, asthma and autoimmune diseases. With 1,900 employees worldwide, and 1,000 in Sweden, we are the global leader in in-vitro allergy testing and the European leader in autoimmunity diagnostics.
How will you make an impact?
We’re in a period of rapid expansion and we are looking for an ambitious and driven Senior Project manager willing to join our team, and a key team member to support us in developing our site in Uppsala. You will be responsible for investments projects where the main aim is to increase our production capacity and efficiency within our Global Operations. This is a key role where you will be contributing to the development, planning and execution of our investment portfolio.
What will you do?
You will lead investment projects from start to finish, your focus will be on projects within the area of process/chemical engineering. However, as a Senior Project Manager, we expect you to have the experience and capacity to manage projects with larger scope within process, buildings, instruments/equipment, IT systems related and operational development.
You will be responsible for planning, funding, reporting, management of resources, budget and naturally delivery on project targets. You are involved and responsible all the way from an identified business need to completion of the project.
The project teams you will lead are cross-functional with different competences depending on the projects you are working with. This could be colleagues from engineering, automation, validation, production, supply chain, real estate and IT as well as external partners and entrepreneurs.
You will belong to the Project Management Operations team which consists of 20 project managers including consultants with different fields of expertise.
Apart from managing projects you will also work together with your colleagues to improve ways of working in project and portfolio execution and planning.
In the project portfolio planning process you will play an important role in teaming up with stakeholders to connect strategy and roadmaps into execution plans and forming the investment budget.
Our Uppsala site is where most of the projects take place and resources are located but some activities also spans over our sites in Freiburg, Germany and Ängelholm, Sweden.
How will you get there?
The role will suit you with leader qualities, and who are flexible and able to quickly adapt to new situations. You are driven problem solver, and can independently lead, manage projects and other activities. You are an excellent collaborator, who provide clear communication and who are proactive in the way you work.
You have a Masters degree within chemical engineering or equivalent and have a solid experience of project management in a regulated business
You have experience in leading larger investment projects in an environment where operations often must run in parallel. Experience from managerial positions is a plus.
You have a proven record to take strategy to action and can move decisions forward.
You have strong negotiation skills and are used to manage external partners as well as internal stakeholders
Experience from managing projects within the area of automation and production related IT systems is desirable.
You can easily communicate in both Swedish and English, both written and spoken.


Apply today! http://jobs.thermofisher.com , ref. 164628BR.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: January 8th 2023
If you have questions then please contact Petra Norrman, Recruiter Nordics, petra.norrman@thermofisher.com
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