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Job Description
Are You Ready to Make an Impact at RSSL?
Join Our Mission to Transform Lives Through Science, Innovation and Collaboration
At Reading Scientific Services Ltd (RSSL), we lead the way in scientific analysis, research, consultancy, and training. We provide services to the food, pharmaceutical, and consumer goods industries, as well as our parent company, Mondelez International.
We are not just dedicated to delivering world-class scientific solutions and outstanding customer service, we are recognised for it. We were named Best Performing Professional Services Company of the Year at the One Nucleus Awards and CRO of the Year at the OBN awards. We were also finalists for multiple recent awards recognising our commitment to skills and rising talent.
Purpose
In RSSL we are customer focused, science led and results driven. The RSSL Food Sciences laboratory performs a wide range of analytical analyses for a variety of food, pharmaceutical and healthcare companies and supports Mondelez research and innovation.
The role at Project Manager is to undertake a project management role with people management responsibilities within the Food Sciences laboratory. Play a key role in ensuring that projects are performed and supervised effectively and accurately within agreed timescales and to appropriate quality standards. This role focuses project management of a wide range of projects across the Food Sciences laboratory, including but not limited to novel food projects, stability studies, product development activities, method development and validations.
The position will be primarily based at the Reading although may be required to work at any of the RSSL sites.
Primary Accountabilities / Responsibilities
Technical
- Provide high quality customer service at all times by ensuring effective organisation of assigned workload, integrity of analytical data generated and timely/accurate provision of results.
- Manage internal/external projects ensuring effective work programmes to agreed timescales. To include acting as primary contact for client and managing all communications, hosting review meetings, providing project updates, preparing high quality project reports, liasing with departments to ensure practical work is scheduled and invoicing of external projects.
- Project manage a variety of projects within Food Sciences including but not limited to novel food projects, stability studies, product development activities, method development and validations.
- Demonstrate good organisational skills including engagement with relevant analytical co-ordinators/lab managers. Also facilitate colleagues from other sites and support where required.
- Assist with generation of client proposals for method development, transfers, stability studies and validations
- Generate certificate analysis or external interpretive reports
- Provide training and supervise junior staff in routine activities and methods.
- Will be expected to cross train and work in different laboratories if the demand is required.
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Communication & Influence
- Work as part of an efficient analytical team
- To liaise with clients, business development and line management to ensure effective communication of project proposals and results.
- Participate in client and stakeholder meetings
- Deliver presentations to technical stakeholders and clients as required
- Manage projects of various sizes across Food Sciences
Leadership and Supervision
- Plan own workload and plan routine projects for junior staff
- Manage a team of Scientists and Technicians
QEHS
- Work to the highest standards of safety and quality by ensuring that appropriate COSHHs, risk assessments and SOPs are understood and followed.
- To complete assigned quality actions in a timely manner
- Assist with the documentation of SOPs for simple equipment and tests and generation of Risk Assessments and COSHH
- To maintain a clean, tidy and safe working environment.
- To understand and work to the requirements of GMP and UKAS.
- Ensure training records are accurate.
Knowledge, Skills, Experience and Language Requirements
- Educated to Degree or PhD in a relevant scientific discipline or equivalent relevant experience in a laboratory.
- Scientific understanding and ability to independently conduct chemical analysis in relevant area
- Accountable, honest, hardworking and able to work efficiently in a team
- Flexible and adaptable to meet customer/business requirements.
- Well organised and capable of working on multiple activities concurrently. Meticulous attention to detail
- Good verbal and written skills with the ability to communicate with client’s and colleagues
- Self motivated, enthusiastic and quick to learn.
- Able to organise own work and others to maximise output
- Computer literate in standard MS office applications
- Experience of working in a regulated environment.
- English fluency (written and spoken)
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More About This Role
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 (between 8% to 11% employer contribution)
- Life assurance
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- A flexible benefits programme (Gym discounts, private health insurance, restaurant discounts, etc).
No Relocation support available
Business Unit Summary
Reading Scientific Services Ltd (RSSL) is a cutting-edge contract research organisation (CRO), providing research, analysis and consultancy to the food, consumer goods and life science sectors. Whether we are creating new products, validating medicines or solving investigations, we take pride in being a leader in our field, serving clients from across 70 countries. Enriched by our parent company, Mondelēz International, our team are committed to transforming lives through science, innovation and collaboration.
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RSSL is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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