Project Controls Senior Coordinator - Project Farma

PerkinElmer; Raleigh (NC); Remote; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

PerkinElmer is seeking a Project Controls Senior Coordinator to relieve administrative burdens from Project and Regional Managers, enabling focus on client delivery and business development. The role covers PSA administration, project delivery, regional coordination, and proposal support across a multi-project region.

The position is billable, with workload managed across multiple projects, and requires strong organization and communication skills in a remote/matrixed, multi-state environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, operations, or related field.
• 2+ years of project coordination or regional/administrative support experience.
• Experience supporting multiple managers or project teams across regions preferred

Responsibilities

• Set up and maintain projects in the PSA platform with budgets and milestones.
• Monitor timesheets, project financials, and utilization; flag discrepancies.
• Prepare monthly client accruals and draft invoices.
• Coordinate project meetings, minutes, and action items across multiple projects.
• Track regional metrics and consolidate status updates for leadership review

Skills

Project coordination

Administrative support

Client communication

MS Office

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business administration, operations, or related field

Tools

Kantata PSA

Salesforce

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Project Farma’s purpose is to improve patient lives by accelerating the delivery of life-changing therapies. We accomplish this through the successful execution of high-quality life sciences projects across the full project lifecycle. Project Farma (PF) 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 Project Controls Senior Coordinator serves to remove the administrative burden from Project and Regional Managers so they can stay focused on client delivery and business development. The role owns project and regional administration end to end for its assigned coverage area, utilizing Project Farma’s PSA as its primary system of record and extends into proposal support and other administrative work as Regional Managers direct. This is a billable role and time will be tracked and coded against client engagements in line with Project Farma’s billability guidelines. The Project Controls Senior Coordinator is expected to manage their own workload across multiple projects and Project Managers within the assigned region.

Key Responsibilities:

PSA Administration

• Set up and maintain projects within Project Farma’s PSA platform, including budgets, staffing plans, milestones, and timelines, in coordination with assigned Project Managers.
• Monitor timesheet entry and approval, project financials, and utilization data; flag discrepancies to Project Managers and Regional Managers before they affect billing or reporting.
• Maintain PSA reporting and dashboards used for project status, regional performance, and portfolio reviews.
• Serve as the first point of contact for Project Managers on questions pertaining to the PSA, and train new Project Managers on regional best practices.
• Prepare monthly client accruals in coordination with Project Managers and Finance.
• Create draft invoices for Project Manager review and approval prior to client submission.

Project Delivery Administration

• Coordinate project meetings, agendas, and minutes, and track open action items to closure across multiple concurrent projects.
• Maintain project documentation, filing, and deliverable tracking in accordance with Project Farma and client requirements.
• Prepare and distribute project status reports, client-ready materials, and internal updates on behalf of Project Managers.
• Support project close-out administration, including final documentation, financial reconciliation, and lessons-learned capture.

Regional Administration

• Support Regional Managers with regional reporting, staffing and scheduling coordination, and consolidated status updates across the region’s active projects.
• Coordinate onboarding logistics for new Project Managers and consultants joining the region.
• Track regional metrics (utilization, billability, project health) and prepare summaries for Regional Manager and leadership review.

Proposal Support

• Assist with proposal formatting, templates, and version control; compile staffing plans, rate tables, and boilerplate content supplied by Regional Managers and business development.
• Track proposal timelines and coordinate internal reviews and submission logistics across the region.

Sales Operations (Backup)

• Maintain working proficiency in Salesforce sufficient to serve as backup coverage for basic entry and updates when the primary sales operations resource is unavailable.
• This role is not the primary owner of Salesforce administration; day-to-day ownership remains with sales operations.

Other Administrative Duties

• Perform other project, regional, or administrative duties as designated by Regional Managers, consistent with the scope of this role.

• Technical Delivery: Applies advanced technical knowledge and professional expertise
• Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Seeks better ways, adapts to change and champions new ideas.
• Customer Focus & Professionalism: Represents PF with consistent professionalism, appropriate escalation and respect for internal stakeholders, even during high stress delivery situations
• Integrity & Humility: Demonstrates self-awareness and puts PF mission above ego
• Collaboration & Communication: Communicates clearly and proactively and drives transparent alignment with clients.
• Project Execution: Delivers reliably, manages priorities and drives for high quality outcomes
• Growth Mindset: Shows openness to new ideas, feedback and change
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Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, operations, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 2+ years of experience in project coordination, project administration, or regional/administrative support, ideally within a professional services, consulting, or life sciences environment.
• Experience supporting multiple managers or project teams concurrently across a distributed or multi-region structure preferred

Technical Skills

• Working knowledge of PSA software (Kantata preferred) or a comparable professional services automation / project management platform (e.g., Mavenlink, Certinia, Deltek, Smartsheet); willingness and ability to become the regional PSA resource.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint, for reporting and proposal support.
• Familiarity with Salesforce or a comparable CRM sufficient to provide backup support; formal Salesforce administration is not required.

Additional Skills required

• Strong organizational skills and the judgment to prioritize across multiple projects, Project Managers, and Regional Managers without close supervision.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including with clients when preparing or distributing project materials.
• Discretion in handling confidential project, client, and financial information.
• Comfort working independently in a remote, matrixed environment spanning multiple states and time zones.

Project Farma is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, veteran status or any other characteristics protected by applicable law. PerkinElmer is committed to a culturally diverse workforce.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. We will not sponsor applicants for current or future work visas for this position. This position may require significant travel to support project and business needs. We cannot employ anyone with an invalid driver's license.

The annualcompensation range for this full-time position is $65,000 to $85,000. The final base pay offered to the successful candidate will be determined by factors including internal equity, work location, as well as individual qualifications, such as job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.