Senior Manager, Global Payroll Portfolio and Project Management

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Job Description

COMPANY INFORMATION

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue exceeding $25 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 complex analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies, or increasing productivity in their laboratories, we are here to support them. Our global team of more than 125,000 colleagues delivers an unrivaled 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 and Patheon. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com. 

GROUP/DIVISION SUMMARY

Reporting into HR Operations, Global Payroll is a critical, dynamic, and evolving function that is responsible for the accurate pay of over 125,000 employees across the world.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Senior Manager, Global Payroll Support Services (GPSS) ensures delivery of both large- and small-scale programs and projects within the global payroll organization including and various small to large scale acquisitions and implementations. The successful candidate oversees cost, quality, plan, time, resource allocation and benefits realization. By ensuring that all projects adhere to the best practices and standard approaches for Thermo Fisher, the Senior Manager, GPSS ensures execution is controlled and goals are achieved on time and with high quality.

In this role, you will implement standard methodologies to enable the successful delivery of a broad scope of payroll programs across Thermo Fisher’s global footprint. Main responsibilities of the Senior Manager include scope management; project vision and blueprint development; benefits and quality management; partner management; portfolio management, and program planning including achievement management; risk and issue management; and vendor management. Integral to delivering these responsibilities will be financial management; maintaining risks, issues, assumptions, actions logs; resource forecasting; change control; dependency management; and project reporting.

These are highly visibility projects that will need someone with both strategic and execution skills, a proven track record of successful execution in the payroll space and the ability to work well with and influence internal and external partners.

You will possess extensive experience within global payroll space including advanced SAP technology proficiency and sophisticated project management methodology competence. In this highly visible role, the Senior Payroll Manager will have daily oversight of 6 - 10 project managers and the global payroll portfolio of projects. This role collaborates with business partners, key vendors (ADP, Workday, etc.), to ensure project execution is timely, accurate and on budget.

This role is the go-to subject matter expert regarding payroll program capabilities, supporting the Payroll Director as needed to optimize Global Payroll performance. Possessing an evolved technical and customer service proficiency, this role identifies the prioritization of key initiatives which turn into actionable improvements, identifies and addresses training needs of their team, mentors/coaches colleagues and supervises portfolio progress. Creating a stable, standardized, and consistent approach is critical to ensure GPSS meets and exceeds customer and leadership expectations.

Key Responsibilities

• Leads the day-to-day activities of 6 - 10 project managers across the globe.

• Establish and maintain a program road map from concept to conclusion.

• Ensure alignment of project scope and schedule to meet project objectives.

• Demonstrate wide-ranging experience and use professional concepts in developing resolutions to critical issues.

• Set standards and processes for the portfolio and ensure all constituents are aligned.

• Ensure legal and compliance considerations are fully accounted for in all requirements.

• Facilitate meetings regarding portfolio on a regular basis.

• Handle small and large tasks and time allocations for multiple projects and across multiple departments simultaneously.

• Lead project-related reporting and communication.

• Compile and lead project related financials and important metric information.

• Coordinate project closure to distill good practice and ensure lessons learned are logged.

• Ensure efficient change control methods and processes are used.

• Ability to coordinate across cross-functionally.

Keys to Success:

• Must perform well in high-energy, dynamic, and team-oriented environments

• Consistent track record for planning, carrying out, controlling and closing projects and the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.

• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to establish working relationships with individuals at varying levels within the organization

• Strong and demonstrated ability to build lasting relationships with key collaborators.

• Experience of handling the complete lifecycle of a project with project teams of 10+ people.

• Solid skills in creating and maintaining project plans, including risks, actions, issues, dependencies.

• Highly efficient in resource planning and tasks assignment.

• Excellent written/oral communication skills for reports and presentations.

• Respectful ability to influence others at all levels of the business.

• Willingness to provide leadership, coaching, and/or mentoring to a subordinate group

• Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint

Education

• Bachelor’s degree and work-related experience, required

• CPP/PMP a plus

Experience

• 5+ years of experience working in a multifaceted payroll position within a global delivery environment, required

• APAC, EMEA and LATAM payroll knowledge, preferred

• Manage a project portfolio and project teams 

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Experienced knowledge of ADP GlobalView/Celergo, Workday HCM/Time and/or mergers & acquisitions, required

• Advanced program or project management experience in the global payroll space, required

• Strong leadership presence, required

Physical Requirements / Work Environment

This position could require 10% - 25% travel from the home location to include multiple nights.

Benefits

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, each one of our 125,000+ extraordinary minds have a unique story to tell. Join us and contribute to our singular mission—enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

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