Principal Project Manager

Clinical Systems Development is a growing team created to develop Waters Clinical and IVD Systems, Hardware and Software. This is a great opportunity to get involved in the growth of this young organisation, with a mission to better meet the unique challenges of our Clinical customers and accelerate the growth of this segment of Waters business.  This role is targeted at a new hardware and software development which will meet the needs of our Clinical customers.

• Working in a self supervisory role to set and establish the direction of Projects.
• To take full accountability for the completion of those Projects that are on the critical path to the delivery of Waters' Clinical business strategy.
• To ensure that the projects have routine risk management and mitigation in place in order to ensure that project goals are achieved.
• To maintain clear visibility of all aspects of projects from Concept, to product launch and complete with project closure.
• Collaborate with diverse teams with a wide array of stakeholders, third parties, strategic alliance partners and other external collaborators.
• To act as an information conduit between the project core teams, programs and Senior Management.  To provide periodic updates, as needed, to Senior Management summarizing project status based on evaluating key project metrics.
• Assisting and mentoring others by sharing knowledge and learning

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering, management, or directly equivalent experience.
• Higher level of education preferred along with Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.  Agile PM or equivalent type qualification preferable.

Experience:

• Demonstrated experience in management projects through a Product Development Process.
• Experience in Product lifecycle management and in depth knowledge and discipline in the application of project management best practices.
• Exceptional interpersonal and collaboration skills with excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Experience of working within Lean or Agile environments with demonstrated capability in tailoring and mapping between different methodologies at scale.

Competencies:

• Ability to develop strategic concepts.
• Ability to manage change within organization.
• Planning, project management and governance of multiple projects, activities and resources.
• Ability to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations in order to identify feasible and practical solutions.
• Ability to work across a wide range of functional and organisational boundaries.
• Comfortable working directly with Engineers but also communicating and negotiating with Senior Management positions too.
• Capable of managing project teams greater than 30 Engineers.

In addition to salary, we work flexibly and provide 25 days holidays, excellent family friendly benefits such as attractive employer pension contribution, life assurance, income protection and private medical. With Waters, there are plenty of opportunities for you to grow, develop and contribute.

Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) is a global leader in analytical instruments, separations technologies, and software, serving the life, materials, food, and environmental sciences for over 65 years. Our Company helps ensure the efficacy of medicines, the safety of food and the purity of water, and the quality and sustainability of products used every day. In over 100 countries, our 7,600+ passionate employees collaborate with customers in laboratories, manufacturing sites, and hospitals to accelerate the benefits of pioneering science. 

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It benefits our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.