Validation Manager
Company: Project Farma, a PerkinElmer company
Location: Remote, with onsite presence required at customer sites (candidate must reside in one of Project Farma's primary markets)
Employment Type: Full-time, salaried
Reports To: Market Director
Job Level: Tier 5
Travel: Willingness to travel domestically to support client projects
About Project Farma
Project Farma, a PerkinElmer company, exists to improve patient lives by accelerating the delivery of life-changing therapies. We deliver high-quality life sciences projects across the full project lifecycle. Our team members are curious, personable, and unselfish, and they bring a Patient Focused and People First mindset to everything they do.
Role Summary
The Validation Manager leads teams and oversees the execution of work aligned to project, client, and business objectives. This role balances people leadership with operational accountability, including coaching, performance management, resource planning, and high-quality delivery within defined scope, timelines, and budget. The Validation Manager partners with the Market Director and other senior leaders to drive continuous improvement, scalability, and organizational effectiveness. Project Farma 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. The role contributes to financial performance, operational efficiency, and continuous improvement, and invests in people through mentorship, knowledge sharing, and professional development.
Key Responsibilities
Site Strategy
- Develop and own the site strategy to position the firm as a leader in Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) services.
- Create a strategic roadmap to drive site growth and align with firm objectives.
- Proactively identify client needs to foster site expansion.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, such as client executives and decision-makers, to secure long-term partnerships.
Business Growth and Development
- Drive site-level business expansion and development with a strategic focus on expanding services and opportunities.
- Work with Project Leads to maintain dashboards and pursue expansion opportunities.
- Own project extensions and proposal generation, and provide critical input into site RFPs.
- Participate in industry events to build a local network, and collaborate with the Market Director to expand client portfolios and secure high-value contracts.
- Monitor and achieve operational KPIs and targets.
- Analyze project performance metrics to ensure operational health and identify strategic opportunities for scaling.
- Lead, oversee, and execute client project initiatives that identify new and added services for the mutual benefit of the client and the organization.
- Support, review, and analyze business development, project delivery, and team member activities.
- Support the development, implementation, and execution of strategic plans to meet Project Farma business development and growth targets.
- Collaborate across Project Farma practice teams to develop solutions for joint business opportunities that meet business and client objectives.
- Monitor and manage budgets and planning needs to meet project requirements.
- Support the maintenance of new and existing client accounts, focusing on project delivery and account growth.
- Work with client business and technical leadership on workflow development, project scope development, risk assessment, issue resolution, and work forecasting and planning.
- Provide direction and innovation in service and process improvement, cost reduction, and business process optimization.
- Stay current on biomanufacturing industry trends and turn market changes into new business opportunities.
- Attend and represent…