Senior Project Manager (CPQ) - 9 month contract

LGC; Milford (MA); On-site; USD 124,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

LGC is seeking a contract project delivery professional to own end-to-end IT projects across ERP integrations, web platforms, and manufacturing systems. You will partner with IT, operations, quality, and suppliers to ensure delivery adheres to scope, budget, and schedule while achieving adoption across sites in the US and EMEA.

Responsibilities include requirements gathering, UAT planning, data migration, and interface design, with strong governance and risk management.

Qualifications

• Formal qualification in project management at practitioner level or equivalent
• Track record delivering complex IT projects across a multi-site organisation
• ERP implementation or integration experience including data migration and cutover
• Experience delivering web development projects and releasing to live service

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery accountability for projects impacting business processes
• Manage overall project plan, budget, risk register, and delivery against scope, cost, schedule and quality
• Collaborate with IT Technical Delivery Lead and stakeholders across operations, commercial and quality
• Escalate decisions through programme or PM&OE leadership when outside authority boundaries

Skills

ERP integration

Data migration

UAT management

Stakeholder mgmt

Budget tracking

Vendor management

Requirements gathering

Education

Project management certification

Degree in science/engineering/business/computing

Tools

IFS ERP

SAP

Microsoft Dynamics

Job description

With manufacturing sites across the US, UK, Germany and Denmark, LGC Biosearch Technologies has plans to continue growing. We deliver mission critical genomics to our diverse customer base in molecular diagnostics, pharma/biotech and agrigenomics. Our integrated portfolio of products, services and expertise supports our purpose of Science for a Safer World and we have embodied our mission by working with customers to enable research into life‑altering treatment for disease and illness worldwide. We are currently seeking candidates who are up for the challenge of operating in a high‑growth, purpose‑driven organisation.

Job Description

This contract role takes end-to-end delivery accountability for delivery of projecs that impacts business processes enabled through enterprise technology applications (ERP integrations, customer-facing and internal web platforms, laboratory and manufacturing system deployments, and associated data migration). The role represents the business function and works in close partnership with the IT Technical Delivery Lead (who is accountable for the technical solution delivery), gathering requirements and acceptance criteria on behalf of operations, commercial, and quality stakeholders. This role holds teams to those outcomes through to adoption rather than to go‑live alone. The role is responsible for the overall project plan, budget, risk register, and delivery against agreed scope, cost, schedule, and quality. The role works within the governance model and delivery framework set by the function, engaging daily with business process owners, internal IT (via the Technical Lead), site teams, and suppliers, and escalating through the programme or PM&OE leadership where decisions fall outside the project's authority, predominantly across the United States and the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.

Qualifications

Essential Knowledge and Qualifications

• Formal qualification in project management at practitioner level, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and applicable work experience
• Track record of personally delivering complex information technology (IT) system projects to agreed scope, cost, schedule, and quality within a multi-site organisation
• Demonstrable experience of enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation or integration work, including interface specification, master data, data migration, and cutover
• Experience delivering web development projects, including requirements definition, working with development teams through iterative build, and release into live service
• Proven ability to represent business interests within technology delivery, translating operational needs into system requirements and challenging technical proposals that do not meet them
• Experience planning and running user acceptance testing (UAT), including test scripts, defect triage, and go or no-go evidence
• Experience of business change and adoption activity, including process updates, training delivery, and post-implementation support
• Experience of managing technology suppliers and development partners through to acceptance of deliverables
• Sufficient technical literacy to challenge and interrogate technical solutions, including application integration and interfaces, databases, and data structures, without being a hands‑on developer
• Working knowledge of quality management systems, with experience delivering systems subject to computerised system validation, data integrity, and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) or regulatory requirements
• Practical, hands‑on planning capability, including project schedules, critical path analysis, budget tracking, and risk and issue management
• Strong stakeholder management at working and site level, with the ability to translate between technical and non-technical audiences and influence without direct authority

Desired Knowledge and Qualifications

• Degree in a scientific, engineering, business, or computing discipline
• Experience of a named enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform, such as IFS, SAP, or Microsoft Dynamics
• Experience in the diagnostics, genomics, or wider life sciences industry, including laboratory or manufacturing systems such as laboratory information management systems (LIMS) or manufacturing execution systems (MES)
• Working knowledge of agile delivery frameworks and experience operating in a hybrid agile and stage‑gate delivery environment
• Formal qualification in business analysis, or in a continuous improvement methodology such as Lean or Six Sigma
• Experience of working across United States and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) time zones with cross-functional and supplier teams

Additional Information

ABOUT LGC

LGC is a leading, global life science tools company, providing mission‑critical components and solutions into high‑growth application areas across the human healthcare and applied market segments. Its high‑quality product portfolio is comprised of mission‑critical tools for genomic analysis and for quality assurance applications, which are typically embedded and recurring within our customers’ products and workflows and are valued for their performance, quality, and range.

OUR VALUES

• PASSION
• CURIOSITY
• INTEGRITY
• BRILLIANCE
• RESPECT

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

LGC strongly believes that every job applicant and employee should be valued for their individual talents regardless of age, disability, race, color, ethnic or national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion, or belief. Short listing, interviewing and selection will always be carried out without regard to gender, sexual orientation, marital status, color, race, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, age, or trade union membership.

For more information about LGC, please visit our website www.lgcgroup.com

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The customary salary range for this position is

Minimum pay rate: $124,000 USD per annum

Maximum pay rate: $184,000 USD per annum

Pay is determined by several job‑related factors, including your skills, experience, education, and job‑related qualifications.