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Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe, or helping find cures for cancer.

This role is based in Sunnyvale, California, within the Ion Chromatography and Sample Preparation Business Unit at Thermo Fisher Scientific. Our R&D team leads the way in Ion Chromatography innovation and product development.

Discover Impactful Work:

Be part of a world-class team dedicated to solving critical scientific challenges. Your work will contribute to breakthroughs that improve lives globally!

A day in the Life:

• Build and manage a high-performance team Global R&D team passionate about developing outstanding, customer-delighting chemistry diagnostic solutions that leverage AI/ML
• Recognizes and interprets emerging trends and provides strategic leadership and technical expertise to ensure the R&D strategy is aligned with the Business Unit's short and long term vision
• Sets the bar for how experimental data is used to impact the Product Development process and be accountable for Quality, Cost and Delivery of the product
• Uses technical and patent landscape knowledge to drive collaboration and opportunities to combine technologies
• Effectively collaborates with the cross-function leaders to develop and complete new product roadmap, while maintaining budget requirements, meeting deadlines and quality standards
• Cultivate a culture of inclusion, diversity, collaboration, innovation, discovery, and innovative R&D culture focused on scientific excellence, open communication, and continual improvement
• Develop and mentor the team, upgrade capabilities, and recruit/retain outstanding talent

Keys to Success:

• Proven track record in leading impactful R&D initiatives
• Ability to determine and implement project strategies
• Outstanding collaboration and leadership skills

Qualification

• MS/Ph.D. degree in an Engineering field or Science with 15+ years leading R&D project teams and developing and launching instrumentation for diagnostics.
• Track record of excellence and innovation as demonstrated by multiple platform launches of innovation, thorough understanding of quality systems, patents, and Multi-Generational Project Planning (MGPP) execution.
• Strong leadership, interpersonal and communication skills with a passion for participating in a fast-paced environment characterized by rigorous science, engineering excellence, and innovative thinking.
• Significant experience leading global, multi-cultural, strong multi-disciplinary teams with demonstrated application of engineering principles to diagnostic Instrumentation.
• Proven track record in influencing across the organization at all levels through direct leadership and functional partnerships.
• Outstanding business strategy, financial competences, and analytical skills.

Compensation and Benefits

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs

• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement

• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy

• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan

• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards