Manager Programming - Early Phase at Thermo Fisher Scientific

Essential Functions:

• Manages staff, which may include interviewing and selection, job description preparation, professional development, goal setting, performance management, behavioral and technical coaching and mentoring, employee counseling, and separations.
• Approves courses of action on salary administration, hiring, corrective action, and terminations. Reviews and approves time records, expense reports, requests for leave, and overtime.
• Promotes all aspects of PPD Equal Employment Opportunity policy and Affirmative Action Plan.
• Assures department adherence to good scientific, ethical, and regulatory standards.
• Reviews and ensures adherence to departmental working practice documents and SOPs, and contributes to their development.
• Increases 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.
• Works to increase the visibility of the company by encouraging the publications of articles in industry journals and presentations at conferences.
• Monitors and ensures adherence to contractual obligations or limits with our clients.
• Works directly with project team leaders and client representatives to assess and develop project goals and timelines.
• May serve in a project lead role on selected multiple projects.
• Provides general infrastructure support to the department. Examples include giving presentations at department meetings, contributing to documents or policies, contributing to and/or leading process improvement initiatives, and assisting with departmental web page development.

Education and Experience:

• Master's degree in computer science, statistics, biostatistics, mathematics or related field and at least 6 years of clinical trial experience.
• At least 2 years of leadership experience.

Or

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

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Advanced SAS programming skills and understanding of database structures.
• Solid management skills, including developing staff and their career objectives and the ability to motivate and inspire staff.
• Capable of effectively organizing and managing multiple staff and assignments.
• Advanced understanding of clinical trials.
• Capable of facilitating communication with clients, project teams, departments and staff.
• Solid decision making skills to decide company policies and procedures regarding programming.
• Solid understanding of tracking project budgets.
• Understand and participate in bidding programming work.
• Effective written and verbal communications skills, including proficiency in the English language.