Quality, compliance, and documentation

• Ensure methods and validation activities comply with internal procedures, applicable regulations and guidelines, and industry best practice.
• Ensure accurate, timely review, and approval of analytical and technical documentation, including testing and validation protocols and reports, technical reports, standard operating procedures, and related controlled documents.
• Identify and address out-of-specification results and non-conformances; ensure investigation, resolution, and corrective actions are completed within agreed timeframes.
• Contribute as a functional laboratory leader to Design and Development projects conducted under Design Controls.

Safety and laboratory operations

• Ensure high standards of safety and compliance with Environment, Health, and Safety policies, laboratory quality systems, and processes.
• Ensure laboratory equipment is maintained, calibrated, and serviced in accordance with company procedures.
• Support equipment qualification and computerised system validation activities associated with laboratory equipment software.
• Ensure appropriate risk assessments, safe systems of work, and Control of Substances Hazardous to Health assessments are in place.

Stakeholder, resource, and financial management

• Collaborate with project and departmental managers to manage workloads, timelines, and priorities.
• Manage the departmental budget, including accurate budget setting and expense management.
• Manage relationships with suppliers of analytical equipment, software, and services.

Skills & Experience:

• Minimum of 7 years’ industry experience in a medical device or pharmaceutical laboratory environment; strong Analytical Chemistry experience is preferred.
• Proven management experience leading and developing a team of scientists.
• Working knowledge of FDA and European quality-system regulations relevant to medical devices or pharmaceuticals.
• Knowledge of drug-device combination product technologies is preferred.
• Sound understanding of product development processes and Design Controls.
• Experience planning and executing analytical method validation and method transfer activities.
• Competence in the use, calibration, and maintenance of advanced analytical laboratory equipment.
• Experience with computerised laboratory systems used to manage data and information, such as a Laboratory Information Management System.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, solve problems, identify inefficiencies, and implement practical improvements.
• Strong cross-functional communication, collaboration, coaching, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Effective technical writing, review, and approval skills.
• Competence in preparing risk assessments, safe systems of work, and Control of Substances Hazardous to Health assessments.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.

Qualifications/Education:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a relevant scientific subject.

Travel Requirements:

• Occasional travel, approximately 5% of working time, to attend external training, visit manufacturing facilities, external testing laboratories, and equipment suppliers, and attend conferences.

Working Conditions:

• Hybrid working model, currently based at our Deeside location.
• From early 2028, this position is expected to transition to our Manchester site, on a hybrid working model.
• The role manages a laboratory environment where staff may be exposed to chemicals, reagents, and solvents and ensures these materials are handled and disposed of in accordance with site and environmental procedures.

About Convatec

Pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch:

Convatec is a global medical products and technologies company, focused on solutions for the management of chronic conditions, with leading positions in Advanced Wound Care, Ostomy Care, Continence Care, and Infusion Care. With over 10,000 colleagues, we provide products and services in around 90 countries, united by a promise to be forever caring. Our solutions provide a range of benefits, from infection prevention, treatment for hard to heal wounds, at-risk skin, and ulcerated tissue to supporting debilitating conditions, improved patient outcomes, and reduced care costs. Convatec's revenues in 2025 were over $2 billion. The company is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index (LSE:CTEC). To learn more please visit: http://www.convatecgroup.com.