About the Role
Serve customers by performing customized, mission-based lab work and research protocols to return time back to science. Report to the Territory Area Manager and work closely with Avantor’s Advanced Laboratory Services professionals.
Responsibilities
- Conduct site assessments to define project scope, deliverables, constraints, and success criteria.
- Translate customer requirements into structured project plans, including timelines, milestones, and resource needs.
- Facilitate project kickoff and planning sessions with customer stakeholders.
- Develop and manage detailed project plans, including timelines, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables.
- Coordinate cross-functional resources to ensure alignment to project schedule and execution objectives.
- Balance competing priorities and adjust plans as needed to maintain project timelines.
- Own end-to-end execution of implementation projects, ensuring delivery against defined scope, timelines, and performance expectations.
- Lead and coordinate cross-functional teams to drive on-time and high-quality project delivery.
- Monitor project execution and resolve issues to ensure successful implementation and service launch.
- Identify project risks, dependencies, and constraints, and develop mitigation strategies.
- Proactively assess risks related to timelines, stakeholder alignment, and site conditions, and drive resolution of issues.
- Escalate risks and delays as appropriate and implement corrective actions.
- Coordinate and allocate internal and external resources to meet project deliverables and timelines.
- Collaborate with vendors and service providers to define project scope, schedules, and performance expectations.
- Facilitate planning sessions with stakeholders and partners to ensure coordinated execution.
- Track project progress against defined milestones and deliverables, ensuring adherence to timelines and scope.
- Provide regular status reporting, highlighting risks, progress, and key decisions.
- Maintain project documentation, including plans, updates, and implementation outcomes.
- Oversee execution of inventory setup and laboratory implementation activities.
- Validate completion of implementation deliverables, including inventory accuracy, system setup, and process transitions.
- Ensure successful transition to operational state through structured project closeout activities.
- Analyze project-related challenges, including timelines, stakeholder constraints, and resource limitations, and implement effective solutions.
- Apply project management expertise to resolve recurring but varied implementation challenges.
Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalent practical experience in laboratory operations, inventory management, or related disciplines.
- Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent experience.
- 4+ years of experience in laboratory operations, inventory management, scientific services, supply chain, or project coordination.
- Strong organizational and project management skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and collaboration platforms (Teams, SharePoint, etc.).
- Ability to travel frequently to customer sites.
- Valid driver’s license and ability to transport implementation materials as needed.
- Experience working in research, pharmaceutical, biotech, academic, or industrial laboratory environments.
- Knowledge of inventory management systems, barcode technologies, and laboratory consumables.
- Familiarity with laboratory safety regulations and PPE requirements.
- Comfortable working in laboratory spaces containing biological and chemical materials.
- Comfortable evaluating storage areas.
- Comfortable handling implementation materials.
- Comfortable complying with all customer safety and PPE requirements.
Skills
- Project Management
- Organizational Skills
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Collaboration Platforms (Teams, SharePoint)
- Inventory Management Systems
- Barcode Technologies
- Laboratory Safety Regulations
- Problem-Solving
- Decision Making
Location
- Remote – Eastern United States (Field-Based)
- Candidate must reside within the Eastern U.S. region.
Work Type
- Field-Based
- Significant travel (approximately 50–75%) to customer sites
- Monday – Friday (1st shift, hours may vary)
Experience Level
- 4+ years of experience
Education Level
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent experience.
Salary/Compensations
- $70,000 - $80,000
- $62,500.00 - $100,625.00
Benefits
- Health & Wellness Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
- Wellness programs
- Eligible for medical coverage starting Day 1
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Company-paid holidays
- Choice holidays
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Commuter benefits
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Tuition assistance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan discount
About the Company
- Avantor’s Advanced Laboratory Services team is a crucial part of the Avantor Services group serving over 500 customers in biopharma, pharmaceutical, educational, industrial, and high-tech industries with customizable, flexible solutions and end-to-end laboratory operations support.
- 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.
- One of our greatest strengths comes from having a global infrastructure that is strategically located to support the needs of our customers.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- Avantor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
- 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 recruiting@avantorsciences.com 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 Know Your Rights poster.
