.**Work Schedule**Standard (Mon-Fri)**Environmental Conditions**Office**Associate Director, Project Management - People Manager****To be eligible for consideration, you must have experience functioning as a CTM or PL at ppd and have experience in Neurosciences indications.**At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on - now and in the future.Our Project Delivery colleagues within our PPD® clinical research services direct, coordinate and lead the technical and operational aspects of projects, securing the successful completion of clinical trials. This includes collaborating with functional area leads to identify and evaluate fundamental issues on the project and to ensure that solutions are implemented. Project Delivery is vital to helping our customers deliver life-changing therapies.Through our global team, you may engage in diverse initiatives and projects, or be part of a virtual international project team gaining cross-cultural experience.**Discover Impactful Work**:We are seeking an **Associate Director** in our **Project Management Neurosciences Team.** This role is for the **LATAM** region** and is remote based.The People Manager leads a team of Project Delivery direct reports of differing levels of experience and project roles within a Therapeutic Unit. Accountable for the career development and performance management of their team, providing coaching in both soft skills and technical skills as related to the use of organization systems, tools, and processes. Adept at identifying and addressing training gaps, while maintaining employee motivation and trust. The people manager develops the ability to collaborate and balance business need with career development opportunities.**A day in the Life**:- Leads staff, including 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