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Associate Manager Commercial Finance (GCL)

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Accounting & Finance
North Carolina, USA · Remote
Posted on Aug 26, 2025

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, our Finance teams play a meaningful role to our business and functional teams to make educated, sound decisions that drive our mission enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer.

We provide opportunities to develop outstanding career experiences and perspectives. You will discover endless opportunities to grow an exciting career as part of the world leader in serving science. Come onboard and join a dynamic and engaging finance team where you are encouraged and given bandwidth to allow your creative capabilities to flow to truly make a difference!

Manages a team within the department and oversees day-to-day responsibilities including quality and accuracy reviews and approvals for all deliverables. Resolves moderately sophisticated problems through in-depth evaluation and financial analysis of various factors to identify, assess and mitigate potential risk. Acts as primary client contact. Builds and maintains strategic partnerships with both internal and external customers at various management levels in order to meet client expectations.

This is a fully remote position for candidate residing in the United States of America.

Essential Functions and Other Job Information:

  • Manages staff, which may include interviewing and selection, job description preparation, professional development, goal setting, performance management, coaching and mentoring, employee counseling, and separations. Approves courses of action on salary administration, hiring, corrective action, and terminations. Reviews and approves time records, expense reports, requests for leave, and overtime.
  • Manages resource allocation and prioritization of team deliverables ensuring appropriate allocation based on team expertise, experience and workload.
  • Attends client meetings and teleconferences to defend organization proposals prior to project award, negotiate pricing or contracts post-award, or to maintain and improve processes and relationships.
  • Evaluates current systems and makes recommendations to assure high quality proposals and contract modifications.
  • Coordinates timely collection of data for proposal and budget development in response to Requests for Proposal, including possible oversight of completion by other analysts on the commercial team. Gathers and analyzes data for proposals and contract modifications and tracks revisions on a timely basis.
  • Prepares, reviews and analyzes deliverables (i.e. bids, proposals, text and budget) to ensure it incorporates and meets metrics, client expectations and other benchmarks.
  • Approves quality deliverables that conform to the organization's contract requirements and meet client needs. Applies quality control procedures and ensures deliverables are completed on a timely basis.
  • Communicates financial concepts and associated calculations and analysis

Education and Experience:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
  • Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 0 to 5 years).
  • 1+ year of leadership responsibility

In some cases, an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • Good knowledge and understanding of contractual documents
  • Ability to manage, empower and mentor staff
  • Solid digital literacy, including the use of Microsoft (MS) Word, MS Excel, Adobe Acrobat, etc. (e.g. creating pivot tables/charts, formulas, etc.)
  • Professional and effective verbal and written communication skills with the demonstrated ability to present and articulate business topics to all levels internally and externally
  • Strong understanding of and ability to communicate financial concepts and associated calculations and analysis
  • Strong organizational, judgment, analytical, math, decision-making and interpersonal skills to manage sophisticated projects in parallel and manage rapidly changing priorities
  • Ability to identify and drive positive change through process improvement, feedback channels and project participation
  • Strong collaboration and project management skills with the ability to meet clients' requirements for proposal and budget development and successful budget negotiation
  • Ability to identify and anticipate potential problems and take pro-active action utilizing appropriate escalation channels
  • Demonstrated ability to serve as an account leads, including participation and/or leadership of client meetings and teleconferences and trackers

Management Role:

  • Directly supervises individual contributors, administrative support and / or entry-level professionals.

Working Conditions and Environment:

  • Work is performed in a remote environment with exposure to electrical office equipment.

Physical Requirements:

  • Frequently stationary for 6-8 hours per day.
  • Repetitive hand movement of both hands with the ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
  • Moderate mobility required.
  • Occasional crouching, stooping, bending and twisting of upper body and neck.
  • Light to moderate lifting and carrying (or otherwise moves) objects including luggage and laptop computer with a maximum lift of 15-20 lbs.
  • Ability to access and use a variety of computer software developed both in-house and off-the-shelf.
  • Able to communicate information and ideas so others will understand; with the ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
  • Frequently interacts with others, relates sensitive information to diverse groups both internally & externally.
  • Ability to apply basic principles to solve conceptual issues.
  • Performs a wide range of variable tasks as dictated by variable demands and changing conditions with little predictability as to the occurrence. Ability to perform under stress. Ability to multi-task.
  • Regular and consistent attendance

Salary Transparency:

This is a salaried role that will also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. Compensation will be initially discussed during the screening period, with actual compensation confirmed in writing at the time of offer.

We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our US colleagues and their families can count on, which generally include:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan

• A wellness program, and valuable health incentive opportunities for company contributions to a Health Reimbursement Accounts (HSAs) or Health Savings Account (HSA)

•Tax-advantaged savings and spending accounts and commuter benefits

• Employee assistance programs

• 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, short- and long-term disability, and volunteer rime off in accordance with company policy.

• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan

Accessibility/Disability Access:

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

EEO & Affirmative Action:

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, religion, color, national or ethnic origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, genetic information, veteran status, age or disability status.