Product Manager

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $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 sophisticated analytical challenges, growing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our distributed team of more than 100,000 colleagues delivers an outstanding combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD.

The Position

We are looking for a hardworking Software Program Manager for our R&D team in Eindhoven that develops the best Transmission Electron Microscopes in the world.

SW Program Manager within the Digital TEM group is a self-propelling role, working as a part of the leadership of software Agile Release Train (ART), typically 60-120 engineers in multiple geographical areas.

This role is the key link between the software development and other R&D fields. SW Program Management is responsible for operational output of the ART, i.e., continuous buildup of value in the most efficient way. This mandates collaboration with adjacent departments which either directly contribute to the value stream or are connected to it.

While Product Management is owning definition of desirable, viable and feasible product, Program Management optimizes value delivery over time within existing budget boundaries. While doing so it also provides transparency (inside and outside ART) by maintaining forecast regarding what / when is encouraged.

Key responsibilities include, but are not exclusively:

• Working in compliance with legislation and IMS (required for all)

• Continuously align program priorities and progress with Product Manager, Product Owners and managers of system projects.

• Lead ART, as a peer to Product Manager, Release Train Engineer and ART Architect, in line with overall R&D priorities.

• Build transparency, i.e. in collaboration with SCRUM teams maintain longer term predictions regarding encouraged ART value delivery over multiple program increments.

• Promote Agile mentality, simplify ways of working, results over process.

• Preparation and participation in Program Increment planning and System Demo.

• Proactively align current and future ART capacity and proficiency with SW group management.

• Build trust and visibility by regularly demoing progress and plan.

Requirements:

• Confirmed experience as a Product Owner or Project Manager in a multi-team and multi-disciplinary environment.

• High level knowledge of both Agile methodologies as well as traditional project management.

• Multiple years of experience in R&D roles.

• High interest and motivation to work in high tech, scientific domain.

• Eager to learn TEM domain specific knowledge including control and application software.

• Experience working with SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework).

• Experience in multi-cultural environments.

• Experience with combined SW and HW development.

• Leadership, decisiveness, and ability to influence your partners (influence without authority)

• Excellent interpersonal communications skills are required due to the high degree of interaction and collaboration across functional groups and multisite development.

• Value orientation, getting to the essence, setting, and acting according to priorities; big-picture overview.

• Curious, fast learning (mostly on the job).

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, each one, of our 100,000 outstanding minds, has a unique story to tell. Join us and contribute to our mission—enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.