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The Director of Strategy, Proteomic Sciences is a senior leader reporting directly to the President of PSX and a member of the PSX Senior Management Team (SMT), with a dotted-line reporting relationship into LSG Strategy team. This role is responsible for developing a deep understanding of the proteomics markets, generating credible market outlook assessments and quantification, staying current on technology innovation and competitive dynamics, and formulating a clear and differentiated PSX vision and strategy across Thermo Fisher divisions.

This role is responsible for developing a deep understanding of the proteomics markets, generating credible market outlook assessments and quantification, staying current on technology innovation and competitive dynamics, and formulating a clear and differentiated PSX vision and strategy across Thermo Fisher divisions.

Critically, this role also owns the deployment of PSX strategy, ensuring that strategic priorities are translated into actionable plans, aligned across functions and business leaders, resourced appropriately, governed through clear milestones, and tracked to measurable business outcomes. This includes recommending and driving organic investment theses and inorganic opportunities to maximize PSX technology and business potential.

Beyond PSX, this leader will partner closely with business leaders (GMs, DPs within and outside PSX), LSG Strategy, and Corporate Strategy to contribute to broader division- and enterprise-wide initiatives, including multi-omics portfolio strategy, productivity acceleration, digital transformation, and AI-enabled initiatives.

The Director leads a small team of high-performing analysts to support strategy development, deployment, and executive decision-making in a highly matrixed organization.

• Own and lead the annual STRAP process, including strategy formulation, scenario analysis, prioritization, executive alignment, and board-ready materials
• Develop a comprehensive, quantitative 5–10 year market outlook for PSX across direct and adjacent markets
• Obtain a broad and forward-looking understanding of customers’ current and future needs
• Leverage internal and external resources to understand tools, multi-omics, diagnostics, consumer, and therapeutic development markets
• Track technology trends including competitors, disruptive innovations, and ecosystem players across the full customer workflow
• Develop robust financial and strategic frameworks to evaluate business success, investment optionality, and returns
• Maintain a comprehensive view of relevant industry businesses, including financial performance, strategic moves, and technology plays, to define benchmarks, best practices, and risks
• Synthesize insights into clear strategic choices and recommendations, influencing GMs, DPs, and enterprise leaders on portfolio investments, partnerships, capability builds, and inorganic opportunities

• Translate PSX strategy and STRAP priorities into clear, actionable strategic initiatives, roadmaps, and success metrics
• Partner directly with GMs, DPs, and functional leaders to embed strategic priorities into operating plans, budgets, and resource allocation decisions
• Serve as a strategic advisor to business leaders, enabling structured decision-making on investments, trade-offs, and long-range planning
• Establish governance, milestones, and KPIs to track progress against strategic initiatives and value creation
• Drive cross-functional and cross-divisional alignment in a matrixed environment to resolve trade-offs, manage dependencies, and accelerate execution
• Monitor execution progress, risks, and market changes; recommend course corrections as needed
• Ensure clear, consistent communication of PSX strategy and priorities across senior leadership teams and broader stakeholder groups
• Lead preparation of executive-level materials and presentations for division, LSG, and corporate reviews
• Contribute to and partner on broader LSG and Corporate strategic initiatives, including enterprise portfolio strategy, productivity programs, digital transformation, and AI-enabled capability development

• Partner closely with PSX Product Management, Marketing, Business Development, R&D, Operations, and Finance teams to ensure strategic alignment
• Collaborate with business leaders within and outside PSX to ensure integration of PSX strategy into broader LSG priorities
• Develop strong partnerships with LSG and Corporate Strategy teams to align on enterprise-level initiatives and best practices
• Operate effectively within a highly matrixed organization, influencing without direct authority
• Lead and mentor a high-performing strategy team, fostering strong analytical rigor, executive communication capability, and strategic impact

Required Qualifications

• Strong financial analysis background; MBA or equivalent business training
• 7+ years of progressive strategy experience in top-tier consulting, corporate strategy, or business analysis roles within life sciences tools, pharma, or diagnostics
• Broad understanding of end markets including translational research, therapeutic development, LDT/diagnostics, consumer genomics and proteomics
• Strong understanding of technologies and business models across instruments, consumables, reagents, software, and services
• Exceptional analytical capability to frame complex problems, synthesize diverse data sources, and translate insights into actionable recommendations
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and drive decisions in a matrixed organization

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience partnering directly with GMs, Division Presidents, and executive leadership teams on strategic decision-making
• Experience contributing to enterprise-wide initiatives (e.g., portfolio transformation, productivity programs, digital or AI strategy)
• Demonstrated ability to operate beyond day-to-day project delivery, contributing to broader organizational strategy and long-term planning
• Demonstrated potential and interest in expanding into broader leadership responsibilities (e.g., program leadership, operations, or functional head roles)
• Executive presence and ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and persuasively to senior stakeholders
• Proven ability to influence across multiple groups and functions without direct authority
• Experience working in highly matrixed, global organizations
• Demonstrated ability to drive organizational alignment, transformation, and change at scale
• Demonstrated commitment to Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Mission, Values, and leadership principles

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