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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.
Location:
- Office based(Hybrid) in Madison, WI, Wilmington, NC, Richmond, VA or Highland Heights, KY. Relocation assistance is NOT provided.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
- Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, which includes a drug screening.
Summary:
The IT Director, IT Business Partner serves as the primary strategic interface between IT and an assigned CRG business division (ASD, Analytical Services Division). This role is accountable for developing deep business understanding, building trusted relationships with divisional business leadership, and ensuring IT strategy, capabilities, and roadmaps are aligned to business priorities.
This role exists to provide sustained focus on business engagement and strategic alignment—responsibilities that were previously absorbed by divisional IT leaders but could not receive sufficient attention alongside operational and delivery accountabilities.
Key Responsibilities:
Business Partnership & Strategic Alignment:
- Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the assigned division’s business strategy, operating model, priorities, and challenges.
- Serve as the primary IT relationship owner for divisional business leadership.
- Represent IT strategy, capabilities, and constraints clearly and consistently to the business.
Business Advocacy & Translation:
- Act as the voice of the business within IT, ensuring business context, objectives, and outcomes are well understood by IT leadership and delivery teams.
- Translate business strategy and needs into clear technology implications and opportunities (without owning delivery or demand execution).
- Ensure business leaders understand trade-offs, dependencies, and impacts of IT decisions.
Strategic Planning & Roadmap Alignment:
- Partner with enterprise IT leaders to align divisional business strategy with IT roadmaps and capability planning.
- Provide business context and input into enterprise planning, investment discussions, and prioritization forums led by PMO and IT Financial Management.
- Ensure divisional perspectives are accurately reflected in IT strategic plans.
Relationship & Communication Management:
- Build and maintain strong, trusted relationships with divisional executives and key stakeholders.
- Facilitate regular, structured communication between the business and IT on strategy, progress, risks, and outcomes.
- Proactively surface misalignment, emerging risks, or unmet needs to IT leadership.
Enterprise Alignment & Governance Awareness:
- Promote alignment with enterprise architecture, security, compliance, and governance standards.
- Advocate for enterprise solutions and reuse where they provide clear business value, while articulating legitimate divisional needs.
- Success Measures
- Strong trust and confidence from divisional business leadership in IT partnership.
- Clear alignment between divisional business strategy and IT strategy and roadmaps.
- Reduced misalignment, late-stage surprises, or rework caused by insufficient business engagement.
- Improved quality of strategic conversations between business and IT.
What This Role Is / Is Not:
- Is: A strategic, business-facing IT leader focused on alignment, advocacy, and partnership.
- Is Not: A PMO role, demand intake function, delivery owner, or project manager.
Education and Experience:
- Advanced Degree plus 6 years of experience, or bachelor's degree plus 8 years of experience in IT Operations or Systems Development. Preferred Fields of Study: Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field
- 6+ years of technical staff management experience
- 5+ years of project management or leadership experience
- 3+ years experience as IT business liaison working with senior management
- Strong leadership and team development capabilities
- Proven ability to direct through multiple management levels
- Experience managing departmental budgets and vendor relationships
- Expertise in coordinating regulatory and sponsor audits
- Strong understanding of IT compliance and regulatory requirements
- Excellence in strategic planning and cross-functional collaboration
- Advanced problem-solving and decision-making abilities
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to travel as needed• Proficiency in managing multiple priorities
- Client-focused approach with strong attention to detail
- Working knowledge of a laboratory environment (GMP, BioA, GCL)
Compensation and Benefits
The salary range estimated for this position based in North Carolina is $161,000.00–$240,000.00.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
Skills Required
- Advanced degree plus 6 years of experience, or bachelor's degree plus 8 years of experience in IT Operations or Systems Development
- Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field
- 6 or more years of technical staff management experience
- 5 or more years of project management or leadership experience
- 3 or more years of experience as an IT business liaison working with senior management
- Strong leadership and team development capabilities
- Experience directing through multiple management levels
- Experience managing departmental budgets and vendor relationships
- Experience coordinating regulatory and sponsor audits
- Strong understanding of IT compliance and regulatory requirements
- Expertise in strategic planning and cross-functional collaboration
- Advanced problem-solving and decision-making abilities
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to travel as needed
- Proficiency in managing multiple priorities
- Client-focused approach with strong attention to detail
- Working knowledge of a laboratory environment, including GMP, BioA, and GCL
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship
- Ability to pass a comprehensive background check and drug screening
Thermo Fisher Scientific Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Thermo Fisher Scientific and has not been reviewed or approved by Thermo Fisher Scientific.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a strong company 401(k) match and an employee stock purchase plan that add meaningful long‑term value. Feedback suggests these features stand out among core financial benefits even when base pay feels average.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage offers multiple national medical options alongside dental and vision, with company‑paid life and disability coverage. This breadth is considered a solid foundation even if some costs may not be the lowest among peers.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental and caregiver leave, backup care, adoption assistance, and specialized family resources are available. Feedback suggests these supports are a notable plus for colleagues managing family and caregiving needs.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Insights
What We Do
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 productivity 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 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, Patheon and PPD.
Why Work With Us
You will join a company which every colleague has the opportunity to create possibilities, for oneself, for our customers and patients. There is no more exciting place to be than at the forefront of solving problems which help improve lives around the world. As a company, we are committed to supporting your career aspirations and your journey.
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