Associate Programming Director at Thermo Fisher Scientific

• As an Associate Programming Director, you will provide project leadership to a team of senior staff within the department who are responsible for all bioinformatics programming aspects of clinical trials.

Essential Functions:

• Supports people managers with interviewing and selection, job description preparation, professional development, goal setting and performance management. May support people managers through input on behavioral and technical coaching and mentoring, employee counseling and separations. Advises on courses of action on salary administration, hiring, corrective action and terminations. Promotes all aspects of PPD Equal Employment Opportunity policy and Affirmative Action Plan. Assures department adherence to good scientific, ethical and regulatory standards.
• Reviews, approves changes to and ensures adherence to departmental Working Practice Documents and SOPs, and contributes changes as needed.
• Recommends strategies to senior management on ways to increase the knowledge base and professional skills of staff in areas including programming technology and techniques, clinical trials and the pharmaceutical industry through on the job training, mentoring, and internal or external training courses.
• Ensures senior management is informed of team activities, accomplishments and needs.
• Manages resource planning and utilization rate for the department. Ensures that appropriate personnel resources are applied to projects based on global priorities and relative complexity.
• Liaises with other departments within the company and the client.
• Participates in divisional decision making, bid preparation and marketing activities.
• Provides project oversight role and consultation for team's projects.
• Reviews and/or approves documents related to project activities.
• Provides general infrastructure support to the department. Examples include giving presentations at department meetings, and contributing to documents or policies, coordinating process improvement, and implementing programming standards.

Education and Experience:

• MS/MA degree in computer science, statistics, biostatistics, mathematics or related field and at least 8 years of experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job requirements, or Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
• Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 10+ years).

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Mastery of SAS programming skills and understanding of database structures
• Capable of effectively mentoring senior staff and promote teamwork in a multi-disciplinary team setting
• Effective leadership skills, as shown through management of multiple projects and proven ability to mentor and motivate staff
• Demonstrated initiative and motivation
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Positive attitude and the ability to work well with others
• Capable of delegating tasks and facilitating the completion of assignments
• Capable of driving innovation in developing new ideas related to process improvements
• Comprehensive organizational, judgment, analytical, decision-making and interpersonal skills
• Capable of independently assessing sponsor needs and working with project team members in producing compliant deliverables