Are you a CMC Scientist that has experience managing a team?

Or are you a Study Director/Manager looking to progress into an exciting new role where you can lead a team to deliver the best possible service to our clients?

Are you able toinfluence others and effect positive change within a global organization?

As a global, world-leading Life Sciences Contract Research Organisation, Covance by Labcorp provides a dedicated and fully comprehensive laboratory testing and drug development service to the pharmaceutical industry. We strive to make a difference to people's everyday lives by bringing essential medicines to the market. At our site in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire we are looking to recruit a Team Leader within the CMC (Chemistry, Manufacturing & Controls) team on a fixed term contract until February 2022.

The Team Leader is responsible for leading a team of analysts which perform analytical qPCR testing. The Team Leader manages their allocated resources to deliver results/reports within timeframes agreed with clients and schedules work accordingly. They maximise capacity and productivity by managing their resources to achieve optimum use of staff, equipment and facilities.

Job Responsibilities will include:

• Managing allocated resources to achieve optimum use of staff, equipment and facilities, thereby maximising capacity/productivity
• Scheduling group projects to ensure project targets and deadlines are achieved
• Reviewing performance and development of direct reports, d eveloping and maintaining a training programme to meet client requirements and realise individual potential
• Providing expert advice on analysis to colleagues and clients, maintaining awareness of current trends, issues and developments
• Taking a lead role in problem resolution and provide advice to colleagues in solving analytical problems
• Acting as technical contact for client placing projects, establishing client requirements, developing protocol and project plans, liaising on day to day issues and ensuring that communications meet client expectations
• Acting as principle respondent during regulatory inspections associated with projects

Please note this is a fixed term contract until February 2022

Education/Qualifications:

• Graduate (B.Sc.) or above, or equivalent industry experience

Experience:

• Experience of working in a regulatory environment, ideally GMP OR GLP
• Ideally some analytical experience of qPCR and/or RTqPCR, DNA/RNA extraction via manual and/or automated methods
• Demonstrated expertise in managing people effectively
• Excellent communication and customer service skills
• Ideally have detailed knowledge of CMC lot release/stability studies/ drug development process