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6-month fixed term opportunity
Location: Hybrid, Cambridge

Thermo Fisher's clinical research business is a leading global contract research organization and world leader in serving science. We are passionate, deliberate, and driven by our mission – to enable our clients to make the world healthier, safer, and cleaner. 

Within our Analytical Services team, we have a functional service provider solution, which is an outstanding partnership that allows our customers to use the experience of our staff, while allowing you, the employee, to gain direct experience working onsite at a pharmaceutical/ biopharmaceutical company, all while maintaining full-time benefits.

Join Us as a Bioanalysis and Toxicokinetics Project Manager – Make an Impact at the Forefront of Innovation!

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Scientific Project Manager to provide flexible scientific and project-management support across Bioanalysis (BioA), Toxicokinetics (TK) and cross-functional operational improvement activities.

The role will provide experienced, responsive review of BioA and TK reports on an ad hoc basis, while also helping to establish and project manage a portfolio of drug discovery and development activities using Airtable as a new operational platform.

The successful candidate will also contribute to ongoing improvement initiatives focused on strengthening ways of working across Toxicology and Bioanalysis teams.

This is a varied position combining scientific report review, project management, digital workflow implementation and process improvement.

Key Responsibilities

Airtable Platform Setup & Project Management

• Work with key stakeholders to configure Airtable workspaces, bases, views and workflows for selected drug discovery and development projects.
• Translate project needs into practical tracking tools for milestones, deliverables, ownership, status, risks, dependencies and decision points.
• Maintain project trackers and dashboards to support visibility of non-clinical delivery activities across multiple programmes.
• Coordinate project-management routines, including action tracking, follow-up, status reporting and escalation of risks or delays.
• Support adoption of Airtable by developing simple instructions, templates and ways-of-working guidance for end users.

Bioanalysis & Toxicokinetic Report Review

• Review bioanalytical and toxicokinetic reports on an ad hoc basis, ensuring scientific accuracy, internal consistency and appropriate interpretation of study data.
• Check that report content is aligned with agreed study objectives, sample-analysis plans, method-validation expectations and relevant regulatory/scientific guidance.
• Identify data inconsistencies, calculation issues, reporting gaps or unclear conclusions, and provide concise, actionable comments to study teams or CRO partners.
• Support timely resolution of report-review comments to enable efficient study close-out, decision-making and regulatory readiness.

Process & Ways-of-Working Improvement

• Contribute to ongoing process-improvement activities across Toxicology and Bioanalysis teams.
• Support development of pragmatic process improvements, including clearer roles, timelines, escalation routes and documentation expectations.
• Capture agreed actions, track progress and prepare concise updates for relevant working groups or leadership discussions.
• Promote consistent, transparent and efficient ways of working across cross-functional teams.

Skills & Experience

We are looking for candidates who can demonstrate:

• Experience in bioanalysis, toxicokinetics, DMPK, non-clinical development, clinical pharmacology operations or a closely related scientific/project-management environment.
• Ability to critically review scientific reports and identify issues in data interpretation, consistency, terminology and conclusions.
• Strong project-management capability, with confidence managing multiple workstreams, timelines and stakeholders.
• Practical experience with digital workflow tools. Prior Airtable experience would be advantageous but is not essential if you can rapidly learn and configure new platforms.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to build practical tracking systems.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex scientific or operational information into clear actions, trackers and concise updates.
• Clear written communication and the ability to produce concise summaries, action logs and progress updates.
• A collaborative working style, with confidence engaging senior scientific and operational stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently within a flexible, demand-led support model while maintaining strong alignment with accountable project owners.

Key Stakeholders

• The role will work closely with Bioanalysis project leads, Toxicology representatives, DMPK colleagues, study monitors, CRO-facing teams and operational stakeholders involved in non-clinical delivery.
• You will be expected to coordinate effectively across functions while ensuring accountability remains with the relevant internal project or scientific leads.

What You Will Deliver

During the initial 6-month assignment, key deliverables are expected to include:

• Timely completion of assigned BioA and TK report reviews, with clear documented comments and follow-up through to closure.
• Configured Airtable bases for agreed discovery/development project areas, including standardised views, ownership fields, milestone tracking and reporting outputs.
• Maintained portfolio trackers for selected programmes, with routine status updates and visibility of risks and dependencies.
• Draft ways-of-working maps or process summaries describing current state, proposed improvements and agreed next steps across Toxicology and Bioanalysis.
• Simple user guidance or templates to enable continued use of Airtable and related project-management processes following completion of the temporary assignment.

Working Model

• Initial 6-month temporary assignment.
• Flexible, demand-led support model, with priorities agreed with relevant project owners and leadership.
• Combination of scientific review activities and structured project-management support.
• Expected to operate with limited supervision once priorities, templates and review expectations have been agreed.
• Regular check-ins to align workload, review progress and reprioritize as project needs evolve.

Why Join Us?

When you join Thermo Fisher Scientific, you become part of a global team that values passion, innovation, and a commitment to scientific excellence. You’ll work in an environment where collaboration and development are part of the everyday experience - and where your contributions truly make a difference.

What we offer:

As well as being rewarded a competitive salary, we have an extensive benefits package based around the health and well-being of our employees. We have a flexible working culture, where PPD® clinical research services truly value a work-life balance. We’ve grown sustainably year on year but continue to offer a collaborative environment, with teams of colleagues eager to share expertise and have fun together. We are a global organization but with a local feel.

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory with PPD, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

Our 4i Values: 

Integrity – Innovation – Intensity – Involvement 

If you resonate with our 4i values above, and ultimately wish to accelerate the delivery of safe and effective therapeutics for some of the world’s most urgent health needs, submit your application – we’d love to hear from you! 

Apply today to help us deliver tomorrow’s breakthrough.