Principal Portfolio Project Manager

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🦌 Connecticut, Florida, +8 more states – Remote

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💵 $122k - $196.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Avantor

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1904

🏥 Healthcare

🏭 Manufacturing

💼 Consulting

Healthcare • Manufacturing • Consulting

Avantor is a leading life science tools company and global provider of mission-critical products and services to the life sciences and advanced technology industries. The company collaborates with scientists around the world to enable breakthroughs in medicine, healthcare, and technology. Avantor offers a proven portfolio of trusted, quality brands used in research, development, and production activities across more than 300,000 customer locations in 180 countries. It focuses on supporting scientific journeys through reliable products, digital solutions, innovation, and manufacturing facilities. Avantor is committed to sustainability, advancing biopharma, and enhancing scientific collaboration with digital technologies.

📋 Description

• Manage a portfolio of strategic initiatives and capital investments across Engineering, Operations, EHS, PSM, Real Estate, IT, Supply Chain, and Commercial functions • Evaluate, prioritize, and balance project investments based on strategic alignment, business value, risk, resources, and organizational capacity • Develop and maintain multi-year portfolio roadmaps supporting strategic objectives • Facilitate portfolio governance reviews, investment decisions, funding approvals, and executive prioritization discussions • Identify portfolio-level risks, dependencies, constraints, and opportunities • Develop executive portfolio dashboards and reporting • Lead multiple concurrent global programs and CAPEX projects from concept through commissioning, qualification, startup, and operational handover • Lead facility expansions, process improvements, equipment installations, operational efficiency projects, and capital investment programs • Drive projects through structured stage-gate governance and present business cases, project charters, gate reviews, and investment recommendations • Maintain control of project budgets, forecasts, schedules, risks, cash flow projections, and financial performance • Track benefits realization, KPIs, productivity, capacity, quality, compliance, cost reduction, and revenue objectives • Collaborate with internal functions and manage external contractors, suppliers, engineering firms, consultants, regulators, and municipalities • Support procurement, vendor selection, contract negotiations, and supplier performance management • Provide direct and indirect leadership, coaching, and mentoring to project teams and project managers • Communicate portfolio and project performance to executive leadership through concise, data-driven reporting • Drive stakeholder engagement, communication planning, organizational readiness, adoption, and sustainable implementation • Serve as a subject matter expert and improve PMO methodologies, stage-gate processes, governance frameworks, and portfolio management practices

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Project Management, Operations, Manufacturing, Business, or related discipline • Minimum of 12 years of progressive project, program, and portfolio management experience, including leadership of global CAPEX projects and strategic business initiatives • Demonstrated success managing large-scale capital projects and cross-functional business programs • PMP certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI), or willingness to obtain within a defined timeframe • Experience managing portfolios of strategic initiatives and capital investments • Strong understanding of portfolio governance, prioritization methodologies, capital planning, and resource optimization • Extensive knowledge of project management principles and lifecycle methodologies • Proven ability to manage scope, schedule, budget, resources, and risk across global programs • Strong record of delivering large-scale, multi-site CAPEX initiatives • Ability to lead multiple projects and programs simultaneously and influence leaders and teams without direct authority • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills • Strong presentation and facilitation capabilities • Experience working with contractors, vendors, engineering firms, regulators, and municipalities • Preferred: Master's degree in Engineering, Business Administration (MBA), Project Management, or related discipline • Preferred: Experience in Life Sciences, pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, specialty chemicals, or similarly regulated industries

🏖️ Benefits

• Learning experiences to support career growth and success • Diverse, equitable and inclusive culture • Equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodation support

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