Consultant​/Senior Consultant

Responsibilities

Location South San Francisco, California

This is a fully onsite role in the San Francisco area with Project Farma, a Perkin Elmer company. Consultants and Senior Consultants are fully billable roles that work collaboratively with client s, 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.

Essential Functions:

• Site Strategy:
  Executes the site strategy as defined by the Manager to support the firm’s leadership position in CQV services.

• Business Growth & Development:
  Participate in project extensions and proposal generation, provide 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 by 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, and summary reports.

• Build internal and external understanding, buy-in, and commitment to decisions through collaboration and effective presentations skills.

• Maintain PO management tools; managing burn rates; needs for new proposals and proactively communicate PO performance.

• Coordinate Team Member utilization with Site and Account Leads and escalate discrepancies between actual and forecasted utilization.

• Maintain internal site tools such as site dashboards, deliverable trackers, etc.

• Continually develop technical aptitude of Project Farma’s core services within the life science space including Capital Project Management, Project Controls and Scheduling, Facility Builds, Tech Transfers, Validation Life Cycle (including CQV Process), Computer System Validation, Quality, Regulatory and Compliance, GxP Automated Systems, Quality Control (Clinical and Commercial).

Operational Performance, Billability & Resource Management:

• Maintains 100% individual billability, focusing on personal contribution to project hours.

• Provides input into resourcing decisions for the project team to ensure high-quality delivery.

• Consults with the Manager to forecast future resource needs for the project and contribute to the resource plan.

Leadership and Philanthropy:

• Contribute to and embody our Patient Focused and People First mission, ensuring philanthropic and…