Executive Operations Partner to VP, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Corporate Social Responsibility Executive Operations Partner

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that drives real impact on a global scale. Every day, our colleagues help advance our Mission to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Join us and be part of supporting the scientific breakthroughs that are solving some of the society's greatest challenges.

Location: On-site at a Thermo Fisher Scientific location; preferably in Washington, DC or Waltham, MA. May also consider Austin, TX, Morrisville, NC, Richmond, VA.

Discover Impactful Work:

As a member of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) team, your work will help Thermo Fisher Scientific make a positive impact on people and the planet. In this unique position, you will serve as a strategic partner to the company's Vice President of CSR & Sustainability, ensuring priorities are advanced efficiently and effectively. In addition to direct executive support, you will play a key role in enabling strong team operations, fostering a high-performing and inclusive culture, and enabling seamless delivery of CSR programs and events. This role offers visibility into enterprise CSR strategy and operations at scale, with direct exposure to senior leadership.

Keys to Success:

The ideal candidate operates with exceptional precision, judgment and follow-through, and thrives in fast-paced environments. This individual exercises discretion, anticipates needs before they arise and consistently produces polished, executive-ready work. They are passionate about using data, tools and AI technologies to improve efficiency. A strong team player across a broad and highly visible internal network, the Executive Operations Partner balances humility with ambition, demonstrating a willingness to learn, seek input and collaborate while independently driving outcomes and taking ownership of results.

Responsibilities:

• Operate with exceptional precision and attention to detail, ensuring accuracy across scheduling, travel, data and materials.
• Serve as the primary support for the global CSR leader, managing calendar, meetings, public events, travel and priorities to maximize impact.
• Enable efficient CSR team operations by driving key business processes, drafting external correspondence, overseeing budgets and financial activities, and coordinating special projects, as needed.
• Demonstrate high responsiveness across stakeholders, communicating promptly and reliably to maintain momentum and alignment.
• Lead and/or support planning and execution of events, including site visits, community engagements, media appearances and internal meetings.
• Prepare high-quality documents and presentations by synthesizing various inputs into clear, polished materials.
• Support tracking, reporting and overall effectiveness of CSR initiatives.

Education:

• High school diploma required with minimum of five (5) years of executive administrative experience, or Bachelor's Degree plus 2 years of executive assistant experience supporting senior leadership, preferably in a global corporate environment.

Experience & Skills:

• Demonstrated success supporting senior executives in a multinational company, leading law firm or top-tier consulting firm.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel is required, along with strong capability in executive-ready PowerPoint.
• Brings a seamless system for managing high volume of inbound requests across channels, effectively filtering, prioritizing and executing across their own workload and executive priorities.
• Track record of proactively adopting, experimenting with and leveraging emerging AI tools to drive efficiency and improve ways of working.
• Strong problem-solving, resourcefulness and judgment.
• Proven ability to communicate proactively, escalate issues early and follow through reliably to completion

Additional Information:

• This is an office-based role. After onboarding, it may allow hybrid flexibility.
• Infrequent domestic travel may be required.
• Ability to work outside regular business hours as needed.

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values—Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement—working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.