Director (Life-Science & Pharma Campus's)

Fortiva; Virginia; Vor Ort; USD 180.000 - 260.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Fortiva in the US seeks a Project Director to lead major life sciences campus programmes across Virginia and Alabama. You will own delivery, schedules, budgets, and quality, working directly with a global pharmaceutical client and senior stakeholders.

This senior role requires 15+ years delivering regulated capital projects, deep GMP/validation knowledge, and proven leadership of projects, teams and vendors in complex environments.

Qualifikationen

• 15+ years delivering major capital projects.
• Senior Project Director / Programme Director experience.
• Experience with pharmaceutical / life sciences clients.
• Strong cost, programme, engineering and construction background.
• Experience with GMP environments and regulated delivery.

Aufgaben

• Lead delivery of large-scale pharma / life sciences campus developments.
• Oversee cost, budget forecasting and commercial performance.
• Manage programme controls, risk and change management.
• Oversee engineering, design management and technical delivery.
• Lead major contractors, consultants and vendors.
• Manage procurement, commissioning, qualification and handover.
• Handle complex interfaces between buildings, utilities and site infrastructure.
• Ensure GMP, quality, validation compliance.
• Senior stakeholder management with client and project team.
• Establish governance and delivery strategy.

Kenntnisse

Leadership

Stakeholder management

GMP/validation knowledge

Pharma/Life sciences

Contractual/project controls

Jobbeschreibung

Sector: Life Sciences | Pharmaceuticals | Advanced Manufacturing | Owner’s Representation

Our client is a leading global Owner’s Representative and Project Management Consultancy, delivering some of the world’s most complex and technically demanding capital projects.

They are seeking an experienced Project Director to lead the delivery of major life sciences and pharmaceutical campuses across Virginia and Alabama.

This is a senior leadership position with overall responsibility for project delivery, cost, programme, engineering, design and construction, working directly with a major global pharmaceutical client and senior project stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Overall leadership and delivery of large-scale pharmaceutical / life sciences campus developments.
• Accountability for cost, budget, forecasting and commercial performance.
• Leadership of programme, project controls, risk and change management.
• Oversight of engineering, design management and technical delivery.
• Leadership of major contractors, consultants and specialist vendors.
• Management of procurement, construction, commissioning, qualification and handover.
• Management of complex interfaces between buildings, process facilities, utilities and site infrastructure.
• Ensure projects comply with relevant GMP, quality, validation and regulatory requirements.
• Senior stakeholder management with the pharmaceutical client, contractors, consultants and wider project team.
• Establish and drive project governance, reporting and overall delivery strategy.

Requirements:

• 15+ years’ experience delivering major capital projects.
• Proven experience in a senior Project Director / Programme Director / Delivery Director role.
• Mandatory experience working directly with major pharmaceutical / life sciences companies.
• Strong background across cost, programme, engineering and construction.
• Proven experience delivering pharmaceutical manufacturing, life sciences, biotech, laboratory, process or similarly regulated facilities.
• Experience working for an Owner’s Representative, Project Management Consultancy, major contractor, developer or pharmaceutical client.
• Strong understanding of GMP environments, validation, commissioning and regulated project delivery.
• Strong commercial, contractual, project controls and stakeholder management capability.
• Experience delivering major projects in the US is highly desirable.

Preferred Experience:

Experience delivering pharmaceutical manufacturing campuses, process facilities, cleanrooms, laboratories, central utility plants, high-purity utilities and major site infrastructure would be highly advantageous.

This is a significant opportunity to take a senior leadership role on major US life sciences developments, working directly with a leading global pharmaceutical organisation and overseeing the successful delivery of complex, multi-disciplinary campus programmes.