PMO Director - Supply Chain and PPI
Employer · Thermo Fisher Scientific
Supply and logistics manager
Strategy managerDepartment managerDaytimeFull-timeBudapest
The Project Management Director will play a key leadership role in a company-wide program office that supports the management of supply chain, PPI and manufacturing programs globally. In this capacity, he/she will act as a change leader across organizational silos, supporting identification and project management of changes that impact our businesses, enabling the identification, prioritization, and structured execution of initiatives that drive operational excellence and business impact.
Tasks
- Planning: Engages with function and internal/external subject matter experts to define a robust project plan, identifying critical internal resource needs and mapping interdependencies across various functions.
- Governance and documentation: Authors foundational program documentation and governance materials including the program work breakdown structure and schedule, securing robust governance through a multi-function program organization.
- Execution and progress reporting: Prepares and delivers program milestone presentations in the program steering committee to an executive audience, ensuring that all expected deliverables for each major program milestone meet quality standards.
- Risk management: Identifies program risks and opportunities and measures their potential impact against project objectives and KPIs, ensuring the mitigation actions are assigned to appropriate stakeholders.
- Change management: Partners with a dedicated change manager as an integrated member of the program team to identify all employee population groups that may be impacted by the program.
- Stakeholder management: Act as a business partner to respective Thermo Fisher leadership teams, both of sending and receiving entities of migrating processes. Manage communications/reporting with all stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required, preferably business related.
- Fluency of the English language (verbal and written).
- Strong commercial orientation with solid experience in a shared services environment.
- Strong understanding and ability to apply Project, Program and Portfolio Management Principles.
- Demonstrated experience in leading large-scale transformation projects in a highly complex, geographically dispersed environment.
- Demonstrated success in building collaborative partner relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Exceptional ability to identify and solve complex problems.
- Ability to operate independently and leading through ambiguity and change, and capable of handling multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously.
- Ability to deal with highly sensitive information in line with confidentiality expectations.