LIMS Project Manager (French speaking)
Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Merelbeke, Flandre-Orientale
- CDI
- Temps-plein
- Trusted advisor to our customers, account managers, services leaders, and delivery teams.
- Maintain and assume accountability for a culture of high customer service.
- Meaningfully engage with customers to successfully execute Thermo Fisher product and solutions engagements.
- Execute activities in support of Thermo Fisher Scientific’s goals and strategy, particularly those related to customer satisfaction, growth, and profitability.
- Accurately estimate project and task resource requirements.
- Define and control project definition and scope.
- Maintain and handle project timesheets, expense reports and status reports in accordance with company’s guidelines.
- Effectively manage the revenue activity of the project team members and invoicing to clients.
- Interact effectively with client project management and technical personnel.
- Oversee project related activities such as software validation.
- Effectively lead project assignments and schedules in concert with the other project managers and services leaders.
- Successfully manage all financial aspects of projects. Avoid cost overruns. Produce timely & accurate project summaries.
- Provide recommendations into planning, resource allocation, management, tracking, and reporting of projects.
- Facilitate internal and customer meetings effectively and deliver engaging, informative presentations.
- Travel, as needed to customer and internal site visits.
- Complete project lifecycle experience in biotechnology, pharmaceutical or process-based industries, preferably at an enterprise software product company in an external customer facing role.
- Broad understanding of relevant technologies and implications in the delivery of scientific solutions, such as but not limited to understanding of IT processes, SDLC methodologies, Quality Management System, Validation, etc.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, integrity, and credibility.
- Results focused proactive, self-starter, with a demonstrated track record of getting things done.
- Attention to detail and a concern for quality.
- Planning, prioritizing, reporting, problem solving and analytical capabilities.
- Experienced with all aspects of project budgeting and cost tracking.
- Ability to lead and be responsible for the productivity of others, leveraging their expertise, seeking information and factors as input into planning and execution.
- Fluent in English and French with excellent oral and written communication skills with a high level of professional confidence.
- Bachelor’s or master's degree in IT, IS, Engineering, Life Sciences, or equivalent.
- Previous proven experience in project management in life and laboratory sciences software. (LIMS, SAP, MES)
- Demonstrated success in enterprise software professional services, particularly large scale and/or global, software implementation projects, both time and materials, and fixed-fee milestone-based, in nature.
- PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent certification highly desirable.