Site Leader

When joining PerkinElmer, you select an experienced and trusted leader in scientific solutions, with the support of a global service network and distribution centers, providing the right solution, at the right time, to meet critical customer needs.  With over an 80+ year legacy of advancing science and a mission of innovating for a healthier world, our dedicated team collaborates closely with commercial, government, academic and healthcare customers to deliver our broad portfolio of analytical solutions, and OneSource services.

Job Description

Job Description Summary:

The Lab Instrument Services Site Leader ensures delivery of best-in-class customer support through managing service resources, including managers and individual contributors, within this assigned group to achieve established revenue and profitability goals as well as contractual requirements. In addition, the Site Lead will work in accordance with both PerkinElmer and customer quality standards. This is an onsite position in Cambridge, MA.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead partnership with the customer operations leads to deliver on the contractual obligations of customer agreements.
• Partner with customers to understand their service needs and goals to support in the delivery of service and drive custom sales solutions.
• Invest time developing relationships on an individual basis with key customer contacts to assess the customer value drivers at multiple levels of the organization.
• Manage and drive profitable business growth of the service plan for customer accounts.
• Identify key market/customer opportunities for growth and develop metrics and action plans to grow stronger customer relationships.
• Integrate product and service initiatives with resource deployment.
• Coordinate and consolidate a comprehensive analysis of area business and marketplace (e.g., installed base, new placements, support strategy, risks, opportunity to improve service to retain and develop new business) to support the business plan process and establish short- and long-term goals.
• Promote teamwork within the service and sales organization to maximize opportunities for the growth of PerkinElmer.
• Recruit, hires and retain top talent. Proactively and routinely identifies a pool of high potential candidates to fill open and future service positions.
• Train and develop. Identifies ongoing team training to address service support improvement opportunities to reduce costs and maximize profitability.
• Manage performance issues.
• Drives succession planning through active support and deployment of the performance management process.
• Recognize and reward individuals who demonstrate exceptional performance.
• Acts as a primary escalation channel for local team to address customer and business opportunities
• Lead the PerkinElmer staff by providing coaching, performance reviews, regular 1 on 1 meetings, and other administrative functions.
• Interface with the OneSource Services Area Manager and the on-site team to ensure key customer contacts are effectively communicated to and customer satisfaction is maintained at a high-level.
• Ensure the delivery of uninterrupted service to the customer. To accomplish this, the individual must drive operational excellence by strategically managing resources as well as identifying areas of improvement.
• Report metrics as well as relevant project and logistics information to the Customer
• Work in accordance with all regulations and requirements for each customer site and/or department following GxP guidelines for ways of working and process documentation.
• Maintain training and compliance in areas of health and safety, security, environmental and operational aspects of daily activities in the working environment.

Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job at any time.

Critical Skills:

• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
• Technical problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Excellent customer service skills complimented by an ability to listen to and interpret client requests.
• Aptitude for technical and practical matters.
• MS Office Skills: Outlook, PowerPoint, Word. 

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree in Science, Biology, Chemistry or related discipline and 5+ years of experience in a laboratory environment and 3+ years in a leadership or supervisory role leading others and delivering administrative functions (i.e., Performance reviews, disciplinary actions, etc.)  OR

• High School Diploma/GED with 10+ years of experience working in a research laboratory environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Applied Science, Biology, Chemistry, Electronics, Mathematics, Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline including military experience. Business or Management Degree also meets criteria.
• Knowledge of laboratory safety practices as defined by the Company and/or the customer’s site safety code.
• Ability to operate a personal computer to enter data and generate reports, ability to communicate clearly and effectively with peers, managers, customers, and other technical support professionals is critical to successful performance in this role
• Demonstrated Leadership Skills.
• Working understanding of GLP/GxP.

Working Environment:

• Must be able to work in a laboratory, controlled environments requiring personal protective equipment (e.g., lab coat, safety glasses, etc.) in laboratory. 
• Job pace may be fast and job completion demands may be high. 
• Must be able to remain in a stationary position more than 25% of the time 
• The person needs to occasionally move between labs, corridors, adjoining rooms, and buildings onsite Frequently operate on instruments, objects, tools or controls, which will require regularly bending, squatting, stretching and reaching in order to perform in a service function.   
• Occasionally move or lift up to 25 pounds (potential for occasional lifting of up to 50 pounds). 
• Specific vision abilities required by this position include without limitation, the ability to observe details at close range distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus in order to perform the essential service functions of this position.   
• Occasionally operates a computer and other office machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer. 
• Employee may be required to handle hazardous waste according to local, state, and federal regulations.  Duties may include identifying, handling, generating, accumulating, storing and labeling hazardous waste. 
• Potential risk to lab-based hazards including but not limited to extreme temperature, biological materials, and hazardous chemicals.
• May be required to complete Medical Clearance, Respiratory Protection Training, and Fit Testing to wear a respirator as protection against hazards present in the laboratory environment.

The annual compensation range for this full-time position is $120,000 to $150,000. 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.