Senior Project Lead

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Hiring Remotely in OH
Remote
Senior level
Biotech
The Role
The Senior Project Lead is responsible for optimizing the Quality team by managing new product introductions and ensuring compliance with quality standards. Duties include overseeing project communication, designing experimental plans, managing customer requirements, and leading cross-functional teams to facilitate successful product transfers while documenting all necessary project information.
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The Opportunity:

Avantor is looking for a collaborative and dedicated Senior Project Lead to optimize our Quality team, delivering results against some of the most complex business and technology initiatives.

This is a full-time remote position that can be based in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey or New York, with occasional travel to Avantor and client sites within the United States. Preferred locations will be within: Cleveland, OH, Phillipsburg, NJ, Bridgewater, NJ.

What we’re looking for

  • Education: Bachelor Degree in Science is required; Degree concentration in Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Life Sciences, or related are preferred 

  • Experience: Minimum 5 years of project management experience within the Biopharma, Biotech, Chemical, Diagnostics, Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical and / or Molecular industries

    • Knowledge of compliance with regulations and quality standards

  • Collaboration Tool: Microsoft Suite (Teams, Outlook, Excel etc.) experience is required 

  • Preferred Qualifications: 

    • PowerBI experience highly preferred

    • Lean Six Sigma and / or Project Management Professional (PMP) certifications

    • SAP familiarity

    • Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) system experience

    • Microsoft Project and / or Visio software experience

How you will thrive and create an impact

  • Responsible for combination of tech transfer and / or introduction of Avantor’s products into sites.

  • Manage key customer-specific and corporate new product introductions, including project review and cost estimation, to ensure new products meet customer quality and on-time delivery expectations.

  • May manage customer and product requirements, including but not limited to: change control, supplier changes/discontinuations, product changes, product line additions/ deletions/ changes, requirements from Quality Agreements, etc.

  • Manage effective project communication both internally and externally.

  • Design Customer supplied ideas for new products and services.

  • Design and execute experimental action plans, including timelines and transition plans, in support of customer-specific and in-house projects; including results review, decision point evaluation and action plan amendments.

  • Provide final deliverables and inputs to the Engineering and Validation functions for the execution of scale-up and validation requirements where needed.

  • Manage the development of packaging and/or delivery systems to meet customer, corporate and regulatory requirements and initiatives.

  • Leads cross-functional Product Transfer Team to understand and implement best options for workflow and production capabilities to be used for new product opportunities and revision requirements.

  • Oversee the creation and review of code work, including code master generation, manufacturing protocols/quality control masters, packaging and finished goods templates, filling, labeling and assembly instructions, label masters, and other necessary documentation to produce products and manage revisions.

  • Document all project information including timelines, data analytics, results, etc.

  • Provide training to and oversight for new product transfer, and as necessary for revisions, to Operations and other departments as necessary and appropriate to achieve effective product transfer.

  • Engage and coordinate requirements as needed with third party vendors/service providers/distribution centers/contractors to assure effective product transfer, introduction and revisions.

  • Identify and coordinate with functional leads for required resource availability and allocation across functional areas.

  • Develop, lead and guide risk management for projects and new products through cross-functional teams.

  • Create and maintain comprehensive project and product documentation that meets the needs of customers, corporate, product, quality, regulatory and all other project requirements.

  • Successfully manage the relationship and interactions with all stakeholders; internal and external.

  • Performs other duties as assigned.

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES (Those necessary to perform the job competently)

  • Must be creative with solutions and react quickly to change.

  • Excellent attention to detail; must be analytical process oriented, and highly motivated with results driven leadership abilities.

  • Set Priorities, multi-task and meet deadlines. Manage multiple tasks with minimal supervision.

  • Understanding of change management challenges associated with process improvement and implementation.

  • Excellent presentation and selling skills.

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING CONDITIONS & PHYSICAL EFFORT (Under Typical Positions)

  • Typically works in an office environment with adequate lighting and ventilation and a normal range of temperature and noise level.

  • Travel to Avantor, supplier and customer locations.

  • Work assignments are diversified. Examples of past precedent are used to resolve work problems. New alternatives may be developed to resolve problems.

  • A frequent volume of work and deadlines impose strain on routine basis.

  • Minimal physical effort is required. Work is mostly sedentary but does require walking, standing, bending, reaching, lifting or carrying objects that typically weigh less than 10 lbs.

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Disclaimer:
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees assigned to this position. Avantor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Why Avantor?

Dare to go further in your career. Join our global team of 14,000+ associates whose passion for discovery and determination to overcome challenges relentlessly advances life-changing science.
 
The work we do changes people's lives for the better. It brings new patient treatments and therapies to market, giving a cancer survivor the chance to walk his daughter down the aisle. It enables medical devices that help a little boy hear his mom's voice for the first time. Outcomes such as these create unlimited opportunities for you to contribute your talents, learn new skills and grow your career at Avantor.
 
We are committed to helping you on this journey through our diverse, equitable and inclusive culture which includes learning experiences to support your career growth and success. At Avantor, dare to go further and see how the impact of your contributions set science in motion to create a better world. Apply today!

EEO Statement:

We are an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action employer and VEVRAA Federal Contractor. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state/province, or local law.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.

For more information about equal employment opportunity protections, please view the Equal Employment Opportunity is THE LAW Poster, EEO is the Law Poster Supplement, and Pay Transparency Non-Discrimination Provision.

3rd Party Non-Solicitation Policy:

By submitting candidates without having been formally assigned on and contracted for a specific job requisition by Avantor, or by failing to comply with the Avantor recruitment process, you forfeit any fee on the submitted candidates, regardless of your usual terms and conditions. Avantor works with a preferred supplier list and will take the initiative to engage with recruitment agencies based on its needs and will not be accepting any form of solicitation.

The Company
HQ: Radnor Township, PA
9,968 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1904

What We Do

Avantor®, a Fortune 500 company, is a leading global provider of mission-critical products and services to customers in the biopharma, healthcare, education & government, and advanced technologies & applied materials industries.

Our portfolio is used in virtually every stage of the most important research, development and production activities in the industries we serve.

Our global footprint enables us to serve more than 225,000 customer locations and gives us extensive access to research laboratories and scientists in more than 180 countries. We set science in motion to create a better world.

More than 13,500 strong, our associates are passionate about our mission to set science in motion to create a better world. We share enthusiasm for innovation, excellence, and achievement. Whether we are collaborating with our customers to advance science or solve multifaceted problems, we help them reach their goals more efficiently and effectively.

Visit our website to learn more about Avantor.


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