Principal Program Manager Jobs in Needham Heights, MA

The Transformation organization at Waters plays a critical enterprise-wide role in shaping the company’s future by leading the integration of acquired businesses and driving the evolution of core enterprise capabilities. Transformation partners closely with divisions and functions to plan, govern, and execute integration activities that ensure seamless business continuity and value realization following acquisitions. In parallel, the organization leads strategic transformation initiatives across key enterprise capabilities—including strategy deployment, integrated business planning, commercial excellence, innovation, service excellence, business process management, and process and data governance—to improve performance, accelerate value capture, and enable scalable, sustainable growth. 

• Support Stakeholders and Owners in detailed planning, execution, and delivery of the initiative
• Work closely with teams across the organization (e.g., IT, sales, marketing, engineering) to ensure collaboration and effective execution of project deliverables
• Own the portfolio of initiatives, ensuring that appropriate management processes and tools are in place, and that each initiative is driven efficiently and optimally within scope and budget
• Serve as a point of contact for key collaborators. Provide regular updates, resolve issues, and lead expectations throughout the lifecycle of the initiatives
• Implement metrics to measure overall success, as well as individual initiative, performance and ensure continuous improvement
• Identify potential risks and roadblocks, develop mitigation plans, and proactively resolve issues to keep initiatives on track
• Support resource allocation across initiatives, ensuring that teams have the vital tools and support to achieve the initiative goals
• Lead budgets, track expenditures, and ensure cost-effective execution of all initiatives

• 12+ years dynamic experience in program and project management with a consistent record of successfully completing programs across people, process, data, and/or technology in sophisticated, global organizations
• Large corporation integration experience required
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence collaborators and drive alignment across teams with varied strengths
• Ability to analyze sophisticated situations, identify challenges, and propose actionable solutions
• Exceptional organizational and multitasking abilities, with experience leading multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Deep knowledge of project management tools (e.g., Jira)
• Ability to collect and analyze data to make informed decisions and measure success
• Process discovery, design, and implementation experience required
• Proven understanding of Lean concepts and tools a plus
• PMP or equivalent certification required
• Prosci certifications a plus
• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s Degree a plus

Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT)  is a global leader in life sciences and diagnostics, dedicated to accelerating the benefits of pioneering science through analytical technologies, informatics, and service. With a focus on regulated, high-volume testing environments, our innovative portfolio harnesses deep scientific expertise across chemistry, physics, and biology. We collaborate with customers around the world to advance the release of effective, high-quality medicines, ensure the safety of food and water, and drive better patient outcomes by detecting diseases earlier, managing routine infections, and combating antibiotic resistance. Through a shared culture of relentless innovation, our passionate team of ~16,000 colleagues turn scientific challenges into breakthroughs that improve lives worldwide.  

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.