Senior LIMS Consultant

Strategic:

• Trusted advisor to our customers, global account managers, services leaders, product managers, and delivery teams.

• Maintain and assume accountability for a culture of high customer service.

• Position Thermo Fisher Digital Science as a leader in life and laboratory science digitalization through successful delivery.

• Work with broader organization to achieve business objectives, expand multi-functional client engagements.

• Effectively share knowledge to help build a world-class digital solutions consulting and implementation team, working

closely with global services leaders.

• Provide feedback to product management and engineering to rapidly advance our platform capabilities to meet

customer needs and expectations.

• Contribute to 3rd party technology, product, and solution evaluations in the context of our portfolio

Operational:

• Collaborate with clients, business analysts, project managers, and solution architects to understand their laboratory

information management needs, workflows, and regulatory compliance requirements.

• Develop and document comprehensive solutions based on the gathered requirements, including system configuration,

customizations, and integration with other laboratory systems.

• Be responsible for the implementation of enterprise laboratory solutions, ensuring that they are configured and

customized correctly to meet client specifications and industry standard methodologies.

• Define data management strategies, including data mapping, migration, and validation, to ensure accurate and reliable

data entry, storage, and retrieval within the solution.

• Assess laboratory workflows and find opportunities for process improvement and automation.

• Develop and execute test plans to ensure the system meets functional and performance requirements.

• Conduct user training sessions and provide ongoing support to laboratory staff, addressing questions, resolving issues,

and ensuring effective system utilization.

• Prepare detailed user documentation, including system requirements, design specifications, user manuals, and standard

operating procedures (SOPs).

• Work closely with multi-functional teams, including software developers, quality assurance analysts, and laboratory

personnel, fostering effective collaboration and communication.

• Remain current with relevant industry regulations and guidelines (, FDA, ISO) and ensure that the implemented

solutions align with these standards.

• Contribute to improving processes, ensuring compliance, and driving improvements.

• Provide recommendations into planning, resource allocation, management, tracking, and reporting on all aspects of

customer engagements.

• Facilitate team and customer meetings effectively; deliver engaging, informative presentations both to internal and

external audiences.

• Contribute to building solutions consulting competency and practices.

• Travel, as needed, for internal and customer meetings.

Culture:

In line with the 4I values of Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement, that form the foundation of the Thermo

Fisher culture and ways of working, this role will bring intensity, innovation, and a high degree of involvement to

designing, proposing, and delivering on Digital Science platform solutions.

Business Partnership:

Working collaboratively with Digital Science and broader Thermo Fisher colleagues to create and sustain a culture of

delivering excellent customer experience, embracing continuous learning, leading with digital innovation, analytical

thinking, and managing complexity.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• In-depth knowledge of enterprise laboratory software platforms, such as LIMS, ELN, SDMS, CDS, or similar systems.

• Expert level understanding of laboratory processes, data management principles, and laboratory workflows in various

domains (, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, manufacturing).

• Knowledge of regulatory requirements and compliance standards relevant to laboratory operations (, FDA 21 CFR

Part 11, ISO 17025, GLP, GMP).

• Experience with relational databases – Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres.

• Experience with cloud services and infrastructure highly desirable

• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to analyze complex business requirements and translate them into solutions.

• Technical thought leadership and sound understanding of key industry trends.

• Demonstrated experience delivering in a matrix, global environment, across internal and external resources.

• Understanding of IT processes, SDLC methodologies, Quality Management Systems, and knowledge of regulatory

landscape, with preference for experience in delivering and supporting validated systems.

• Superb communication and interpersonal skills, integrity, and credibility.

• Results focused, with attention to detail and a concern for quality.

• Experience working with and influencing team members in a global work environment.

• Planning, prioritizing, reporting, problem solving and analytical capabilities.

• Collaborative, initiates and facilitates communications and relevant information sharing, and works with different functions to achieve the best outcomes.

• Ability to exercise judgment and discretion concerning critical, confidential, and proprietary information.

• Sound business insight, adaptable, goal-oriented self-starter.

• Flexibility in work schedule to accommodate communications with global team.

• Able to innovate and bring ideas forward and advance issues and risks in a positive way.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master's degree in IT, IS, Engineering, Life Sciences, or equivalent.

• At least 5+ years of relevant experience in life sciences technical and business consulting with medium and large

customers in various roles such as architect, solutions lead, or implementation lead for enterprise solutions in the life

and laboratory sciences industry, specifically, developing and deploying solutions catering to one or more areas of

discovery, research, development, or manufacturing.

• Demonstrated success as a key participant, lead, or manager of technology consulting engagements

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 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 complex analytical
challenges, increasing efficiency in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or
the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our global
team of more than 100,000 colleagues delivers an unrivalled 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.
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of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran
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