Consultant​/Senior Consultant

Overview

Consultant / Senior Consultant position based in Trenton, New Jersey. This is a fully onsite role with Project Farma, a Perkin Elmer company. Consultants and Senior Consultants are fully billable roles that will work collaboratively with client, vendors, contractors, and other Team Members to lead and support projects related to bio manufacturing across the entire project lifecycle. They are responsible for leading and mentoring small project teams and identifying business development opportunities through Project Farma’s Patient Focused and People First platform.

Consultants and Senior Consultants are tactical executors focused on project-level delivery, supporting the site Manager’s strategy, and contributing to business growth, talent development, and resource planning with an emphasis on technical expertise and operational execution.

Location Trenton, New Jersey, US

Job REQ-056539

This is a fully onsite role with Project Farma
, a Perkin Elmer company

• Execute the site strategy as defined by the Manager to support the firm’s leadership position in CQV services.
• Identify client needs during project execution and communicate these to the Manager for strategic consideration.
• Build and maintain relationships with key project Points of Contact (POCs), such as project managers or technical leads, to ensure smooth project delivery and client satisfaction.

• Participate in project extensions and proposal generation, providing technical and operational input.
• Attend market-based industry events to build a local network.
• Provide deliverable and resource recommendations for site proposals to ensure feasibility.
• Support Project Farma’s business development initiatives through proactively identifying and escalating client needs along with a proposed support plan to their Manager.
• Understand and be able to speak to services both internally and externally.
• Maintain and present site dashboards to communicate project health, growth opportunities, and account maintenance needs.
• Communicate opportunities to expand presence and services for client support.
• Foster positive relationships with key stakeholders.
• Generate proposed support plan and escalate that plan as needed.
• Learn and develop skills and understanding of the business development process including proposal generation.

• Talent Development
• Encourage team members to share best practices within the team or site, contributing to a collaborative culture.
• Foster accountability and excellence within the project team and communicates retention risks to the Manager.
• Coach Team Members on identified knowledge gaps and direct Team Members to materials to develop project driven technical and problem-solving skills.
• Mentor and train internal team members on assigned duties, industry best practices, overall understanding of the business, and project driven technical skills.
• Develop team members with foresight to support project succession plans as identified by leadership.
• Develop and maintain your own succession plan to ensure project continuity.

• Technical Delivery
• Escalate technical delivery issues to the Manager and provide resolution or mitigation solutions.
• Ensure delivery of high-quality GMP Engineering services that meet client specifications, regulatory requirements, and industry standards.
• Support project execution, from planning to closeout, ensuring timelines and budgets are met.
• Lead, oversee, and execute client project initiatives, plans, or work streams including ensuring team deliverables are completed in a timely and high-quality fashion.
• Provide hands-on support for both clients and Project Farma Team Members in navigating the engineering life cycle of cutting-edge equipment and manufacturing processes including proactively identifying and escalating roadblocks and utilizing critical thinking skills to identify creative solutions.
• Create, update, and present work projections and progress reports.
• Develop technical documentation such as SOPs, requirements specifications, testing protocols, summary reports, etc.
• Build internal and external understanding, buy-in, and commitment to decisions through mutual understanding, collaboration, and effective…