Pharmaceutical Chromatography Team Leader Reading, England
Job description
Are you looking for a rewarding role where you can make a positive impact, working with the world's most innovative food and Life Sciences companies?
Join our diverse team today and help us deliver real world solutions for a brighter future!
Reading Scientific Services Limited(RSSL – Parent Company Mondelēz international) is a multi-award-winning food and pharmaceutical research organisation, pushing the boundaries of science to make our world safer, healthier and more sustainable. Our clients, based across 70 countries, trust us to deliver intelligent solutions to real-world problems through rigorous analytical testing, cutting-edge research and development, customised consultancy and training services.
When you join RSSL, you’re joining a global network enriched by our parent company Mondelēz International. Our diverse team includes 23 nationalities from 350 members and, all together, we are committed to transforming lives through science, innovation, and collaboration.
If you share our passion for science and innovation, we’d love to hear from you!
About the team
The Chromatography team is a tight-knit group of experts responsible for employing Liquid Chromatography and Gas Chromatography for pharmaceutical testing, primarily coupled with Mass Spectroscopy.
By utilising GC, GC-MS and LCMS, we perform routine and investigative analysis of pharmaceutical raw materials, extractables and leechables testing, nitrosamine testing as well as validation, verification and method transfer on behalf of our clients.
Joining this team will allow you to do truly vital work analysing medicines so they can reach patients that need them. You’ll have opportunity to gain new technical and leadership skills as the laboratory continues going from strength to strength.
Purpose of the role
The Team Leader provides management within the RSSL Pharmaceutical Chemistry laboratory while retaining a hands-on approach to GC-FID and GC-HS. It will manage a small team of scientists and technicians.
You’ll ensure routine and complex pharmaceutical projects are performed promptly and to GMP standards, facilitating practical analytical work and data checking for routine analyses of pharmaceutical raw materials and method verification using chromatography techniques in accordance with pharmacopoeia or client methods.
Responsibilities
Technical
- Independently perform complex analysis using chromatography techniques (including MS), design study protocols and maintenance and troubleshoot lab equipment.
- Provide technical direction to the business.
- Supervise staff in routine activities and methods.
- Ensure effective organisation, integrity of analytical data and provision of results.
- Perform data checking and provide interpretation of results for routine testing.
- Generate certificate analysis or external interpretive reports.
Communication and Influence
- Liaise with clients, commercial and line management to ensure effective communication of project proposals and results.
- Provide advice in client and stake holders meetings.
- Deliver external presentations of data and internal presentations to senior technical stakeholders.
- Contributes to technical strategies & influence senior management.
Leadership and supervision.
- Plan own workload and plan routine projects for junior staff.
- Manage a team of scientists and technicians.
Requirements
- Experience of working with gas chromatography independently.
- Project management and planning skills.
- Proven track record of line management of a small team.
- Ability to motivate and mentor junior scientific staff.
- Technical credibility to develop good working relationships with internal and external clients.
- English fluency.
- Prior pharmaceutical industry experience, experience with GMP and experience working in a CRO are advantageous but not required.
In return for your commitment, drive and enthusiasm, we offer an attractive benefits package within a highly successful international business that offers financial rewards and resources, including:
- Opportunities to learn and develop
- Performance Related Bonus scheme
- Contributory pension (up to 11% employer contribution)
- Life assurance
- 27 days holiday allowance (possibility to buy 5 extra days) + bank holidays
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Medical Insurance
- A flexible benefits programme (Gym discounts, private health insurance, restaurant discounts, etc).
At RSSL, flexibility is one of our key priorities. We recognise that flexibility means different things for different people and therefore we will work with individuals to determine what this looks like. Flexibility comes in many forms both within informal and formal working arrangements so please ask for more information at interview stage should you need more details.
In 2022, we were recognised as OBN Best CRO, Employer of the Year at The Great British Business and Community Awards and Business of the Year at the Thames Valley Business Awards in 2021. Previous accolades include Business of the Year at the Thames Valley Business Awards, OBN Best CRO and the Women in Business Awards’ Most Enlightened Employer, in 2019.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £40,000.00-£45,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flexitime
- Free parking
- Gym membership
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid volunteer time
- Private dental insurance
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
Supplemental pay types:
- Performance bonus
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Reading., RG6 6LA: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
- what are your salary expectations?
- Please briefly describe your experience and proficiency with gas chromatography (GC) techniques, including any specific instruments or methodologies you have used in your previous roles
Education:
- Bachelor's (preferred)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: R-91640
