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Job Title
Validation - Senior Director - Project Farma
Location(s)
Customer Site - NJ
Job Description
This is a full-time salaried position with Project Farma, a PerkinElmer company. The successful candidate will reside in the New Jersey market and be willing to travel domestically, to meet client project requests.
Project Farma’s purpose is to improve patient lives by accelerating the delivery of life-changing therapies. We accomplish this through the successful execution of high-quality life sciences projects across the full project lifecycle. Project Farma (PF) team members collaborate with cross-functional teams to build trusted client relationships, deliver an exceptional customer experience, and contribute to business growth by identifying opportunities and applying data-driven insights to support project planning, cost, schedule, and performance management.
This role contributes to organizational success by supporting financial performance, operational efficiency, and continuous improvement, while also investing in people through mentorship, knowledge sharing, and professional development.
All team members are expected to embody Project Farma’s values by being curious, personable, and unselfish, while maintaining a strong commitment to a Patient Focused and People First mindset.
The Validation - Senior Director is a senior leader responsible for setting direction, driving execution, and delivering results across a function, portfolio, or business segment. This role provides strategic leadership, oversees multiple teams or initiatives, and partners cross-functionally to align people, processes, and priorities with company objectives. At more senior levels, this role is accountable for shaping strategy, leading leaders, and driving sustained business impact across a significant area of the organization, while influencing enterprise-level decisions, ensuring operational excellence, and developing leadership talent to balance short-term execution with long-term growth objectives.
Key Responsibilities
Site Strategy
- Oversee the development and alignment of site strategies across multiple sites within a market or region to ensure the firm’s leadership in CQV services.
- Set the overarching strategic vision for the market, ensuring site strategies align with firm-wide goals.
- Identify cross-market opportunities to enhance client relationships and service offerings.
- Cultivate high-level relationships with C-suite client executives and industry leaders to position the firm as a market leader.
Business Growth & Development
- Drive business growth across multiple sites or markets, setting the strategic direction for client acquisition and portfolio expansion.
- Oversee the development of market-level dashboards and growth strategies.
- Own high-stakes RFPs and contract negotiations for major clients.
- Lead market-based industry engagement to position the firm as a global leader.
- Set and monitor market-wide KPIs and financial targets.
- Own, review, present, and analyze Business Development, Project Delivery and Team Member activities to Leadership.
- Develop, implement, and execute strategic plans to meet the Project Farma business development and growth targets.
- Focus on increasing the market client base and expanding the regional book of business to achieve annual growth targets.
- Utilize existing networks to procure and land new business for Project Farma.
- Develop and implement strategic plans to meet the Project Farma practice area goals of client satisfaction, business and technical performance, and employee engagement.
- Collaborate across the Project Farma practice teams to develop solutions for joint business opportunities that meet business objectives.
- Manage new and existing client accounts, focusing on project delivery and actively seeking account growth.
- Work with clients’ business/technical leadership to facilitate workflow development, project scope development and risk assessment, issue resolution and work forecasting and planning.
- Provide direction and innovation in service and/or process improvement, cost reduction and recommendations for business process optimization.
- Stay current with the latest trends in the biomanufacturing industry and implement strategies that leverage changes in the marketplace into new business opportunities.
- Maintain business development data within customer relationship management (CRM) system
- Support strategic creation of cross site / cross account business development tools creating a force multiplier impact.
- Attend and represent Project Farma at ISPE or other industry related networking events.
Leadership & Talent Development
- Set the talent development strategy across multiple sites or markets, ensuring alignment with firm-wide goals.
- Mentor Managers and Senior Leaders to prepare them for market or regional roles.
- Oversee succession planning for critical leadership positions across the market.
- Drive firm-wide initiatives to share best practices, enhance retention, and build a culture of excellence.
- Approve professional development programs and monitor their impact on performance.
- Build and oversee teams at various client sites/locations to ensure consistency of services, compliant with client and Project Farma processes and standards and responsiveness to both client and employee requirements.
- Develop and implement employee performance and professional development plans to meet individual development and growth, and overall program goals; includes primary responsibility for talent management including overall hiring and termination decisions in collaboration with human resources.
- Direct and manage teams executing projects within the Project Farma practice area with overall responsibility for technical solutions, cost, quality, and client satisfaction.
- Lead, inspire and engage in strategic succession planning to ensure the readiness of future leaders.
- Lead initiatives and projects by ensuring Team Members understand team and individual goals and responsibilities, managing priorities and ensuring timely and high-quality completion of work.
- Mentor, train, and coach team members in client engagement, relationship management, and leadership.
- Build and maintain high performing teams ensuring successful account management and growth.
- Support recruitment and talent identification.
- Develop strategies for the success of the service line or geographic target such as planning, scheduling, estimating, monitoring, progress measurement, risk management, training, and reporting procedures.
Resource Management
- Oversee resource strategy across multiple sites or markets, ensuring alignment with firm-wide objectives.
- Approve resource plans and budgets for the market, balancing site needs with strategic priorities.
- Drive workforce planning to anticipate long-term resource demands and optimize utilization.
- Monitor and manage department budgets and planning needs to meet the necessary project requirements.
- Provide resource planning, as well as define project objectives and requirements necessary to structure a project or activity.
- Set and lead project direction and strategy based on client vision and expected outcomes throughout the entire project delivery life cycle without oversight.
- Drive efficiency through team member utilization and support cross-account / cross-region allocations.
- Provide service line or geographic target forecasting, budgeting, and reporting.
Technical Delivery
- Set the technical delivery strategy across multiple sites or markets, ensuring consistency and excellence.
- Approve technical standards and processes to meet regulatory and client requirements.
- Serve as the ultimate escalation point for complex technical issues across the market.
- Ensure market-wide delivery of high-quality GMP Engineering services, aligning with firm-wide standards.
- Oversee project portfolios to ensure strategic alignment, timelines, and budgets are met.
- Subject Matter Expert who provides technical direction, training, career development and performance assessments to ensure highest quality delivery.
Operational Performance & Billability
- Maintain 100% individual billability while overseeing market-wide billability and performance targets.
- Ensure all sites within the market achieve financial and operational goals.
- Approve budgets and monitor market-wide performance metrics.
Experience Required
- Bachelor’s Degree (and/or Masters) in Life Science, Engineering, or related discipline (OR a combination of equivalent experience in CQV engineering, cGMP facility start-up, project management and/or comparable military experience)
- 13-20 years advanced therapy, life science, pharmaceutical, or biotech experience
- 10 years minimum managing high-performing teams
- 6 years minimum business development, lead generation, or sales experience
- Willingness to travel as required for client project assignments.
Other Required
- Travel as needed to fulfill Business Development and Team Member initiatives.
- Experience operating as a trusted strategic advisor to organization decision-makers on short and long-term organizational initiatives.
- Experience translating client visions to set the direction, frame the project, provide clarity to direct reports and client, and deliver results
- Proven technical/managerial capabilities in developing solutions to engineering and business problems and managing deliverables and client expectations
Project Farma is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, or veteran status or any other characteristics protected by applicable law. PerkinElmer is committed to a culturally diverse workforce.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. We will not sponsor applicants for current or future work visas for this position. This position may require significant travel to support project and business needs. We cannot employ anyone with an invalid driver's license.
The annual compensation for this full-time position is $182,000 - $190,000. The final base pay offered to the successful candidate will be determined by factors including internal equity, work location, as well as individual qualifications, such as job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
PerkinElmer is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, or veteran status or any other characteristics protected by applicable law. PerkinElmer is committed to a culturally diverse workforce.