Validation Services Project Manager

Work Your Magic with us! Start your next chapter and join MilliporeSigma.
Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.
This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US.
Role can be based in US or APAC or Europe
Your Role:
Millipore Sigma’s Validation Services team is seeking a Project Manager to lead projects from initiation through completion across our global laboratory network. This role is responsible for planning, coordinating, tracking, and driving execution across multiple functions and stakeholders to ensure timelines, deliverables, and business objectives are achieved.
The Project Manager will partner closely with laboratory leaders, technical experts, and cross-functional stakeholders to keep projects moving, influence alignment, resolve blockers, maintain clear communication, and provide consistent visibility into project progress throughout the full lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead projects through initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closure, ensuring scope, timelines, milestones, deliverables, and ownership are clearly defined. Coordinate with global laboratory teams and cross-functional stakeholders to align priorities, expectations, decisions, and next steps across functions.
Influence stakeholders and drive alignment across teams and functions to maintain project momentum
Manage project timelines, deliverables, follow-up actions, and dependencies to keep work progressing toward agreed objectives.
Track project progress, identify risks, delays, and resource constraints, and work with relevant stakeholders to prioritize mitigation actions and resolution plans.
Escalate issues, risks, or delays as needed to enable timely decisions, remove blockers, and support resolution.
Maintain accurate project updates, dashboards, and reporting materials that reflect milestones, risks, actions, overall project health, and progress for key stakeholders.
Facilitate project meetings and document decisions, actions, owners, and next steps to support follow-through.
Support resolution of issues that may impact quality, delivery, or timing
Drive stakeholder accountability by ensuring commitments are clear, tracked, and followed through.
Who You Are
Minimum Qualifications:
5-7+ years of experience managing projects from initiation to completion
Strong ability to influence others, build alignment, and work effectively across functions
Demonstrated ability to manage timelines, deliverables, and competing priorities in a structured way
Strong organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills
Experience working in a global, cross-functional environment
Proficiency with project tracking, reporting, and project management tools (e.g., smartsheet)
Must be fluent in English
Preferred Qualifications:
PMP certification
Experience in laboratory, technical, scientific, or regulated environments
Familiarity with global project coordination across sites or regions
Experience supporting process improvement or operational excellence initiatives