Senior Manager, Commercial Strategy & Execution

About the role

The Senior Manager, Commercial Strategy & Execution is responsible for translating commercial strategy into disciplined execution across the global Laboratory Products Group (LPG) commercial organization. Reporting to the Senior Director, Global Commercial Finance & Operations, this role leads enterprise portfolio governance, commercial operating model development, and cross-functional execution of strategic initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead governance of LPG's commercial initiative portfolio, ensuring enterprise priorities are aligned with organizational capacity and strategic business objectives.
• Facilitate prioritization, sequencing, and executive decision-making through structured recommendations, tradeoff analysis, and portfolio visibility.
• Monitor strategic initiatives to proactively identify execution risks, dependencies, and opportunities to improve delivery.
• Lead the evolution of LPG's commercial operating model by strengthening governance, simplifying business processes, and improving organizational effectiveness.
• Establish and govern scalable operating standards and partner with business leaders to improve commercial productivity while balancing enterprise consistency with appropriate regional flexibility.
• Identify and implement opportunities that leverage process innovation, commercial technology, automation, and AI-enabled capabilities to improve how the commercial organization operates.
• Build strong partnerships across commercial, business, and enabling organizations to successfully execute enterprise commercial initiatives.
• Lead cross-functional governance forums, facilitate executive decision-making, and drive organizational alignment across strategic priorities.
• Influence stakeholders across the organization by translating business strategy into actionable plans and driving measurable business outcomes.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Operations, Marketing, Engineering, or related discipline.
• 8+ years of progressive experience leading commercial, operational, or strategic initiatives within a global matrix organization.
• Demonstrated success leading complex cross-functional initiatives within a global, matrixed organization.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to translate strategy into execution, influence without authority, and drive organizational alignment.
• Excellent analytical, communication, facilitation, and executive presentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or other advanced business degree.
• Experience supporting global commercial organizations.
• Experience leading commercial operating model, business transformation, or organizational effectiveness initiatives.
• Experience with commercial technologies, CRM platforms, process governance, or digital transformation.
• PPI, Lean, continuous improvement, or change leadership experience.

Who Will Succeed In This Role

The successful candidate is a strategic operator who enjoys solving complex business problems and designing scalable solutions. They combine strong commercial judgment with systems thinking and are comfortable working across organizational boundaries to influence outcomes. They are naturally curious, challenge conventional approaches, and continuously seek opportunities to simplify complexity, improve business performance, and enable innovation. They are equally comfortable facilitating executive discussions, influencing organizational change, and turning strategy into measurable business outcomes.

Benefits

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits!

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.