Bio Products Laboratory (BPL), part of Kedrion Biopharma, has a new vacancy for a Chemistry Team Leader to join the Quality Department located in Elstree, Hertfordshire.

This exciting first-line management role within a laboratory setting will suit someone with experience supervising staff overseeing day-to-day operations and working to GMP standards.

Duties & Responsibilities will include -

Authority and decision making

• Planning day-to-day work across the department.
• To assist with the delivery of departmental objectives.
• Ensure that KPIs are met.
• Raise and lead Minor + Major + Critical deviations
• Support Critical deviations
• Having awareness of all quality records within own area.
• Provide the necessary support for quality records to ensure they are completed within required timelines.
• Ensure OOSs when reported by the department are raised and investigated in accordance with procedure, supporting completion of investigations (Phase I and II) to ensure the right outcome is achieved.
• Tracking/trending of OOSs
• To recommend change controls and to lead and implement agreed actions.
• Deliver the training programme for the section through departmental metrics and business needs.
• Empowering the team to identifying the need for procedure updates and ensuring correct procedures are in place. Reviewing complex procedural updates, and responsible for approving less complex procedures.
• Ensuring sufficient resources are available, for routine work and any additional work taken on by the department communicating to line management when resource limitations exist
• Assisting with recruitment, such as identifying recruitment needs, reviewing CVs for suitable candidates, performing interviews and liaising with HR regarding selection and on boarding of successful candidates.
• Handling of issues

Budget / Capital Expenditure

• Monitoring of spending on consumables and equipment.
• Identifying the need for and raising orders.
• Contributing to preparation of annual OPEX and CAPEX plans.

People Management

• Responsible for the management of Senior Analysts, Analyst II and Analyst I staff.
• Undertaking annual performance reviews, performance management, disciplinaries (up to verbal warning), training, and mentoring.
• Delivery of the training plan for the section.
• Ensure that effective and target driven one-to-ones are delivered for all grades of analyst.
• Managing teams working multiple shift patterns.
• Managing teams working in laboratories and process areas.
• Supervising third party contractors e.g. servicing of laboratory equipment, testing production areas.

Project Management

Delivering agreed projects within the laboratory and across manufacturing.

Skills & experience to help you within the role –

• BSc in relevant subject (or equivalent experience)
• Demonstrated management skills.
• Planning and organisation skills to be able run a section in terms of samples and staffing.
• Capacity to grasp concepts easily.
• Computer literate – competent in the use of Microsoft Office, in particular Word and Excel at an intermediate level.
• Able to ensure high levels of quality are achieved.
• Able to communicate clearly and persuasively with the team.
• Problem solving.
• Extensive laboratory experience and demonstrated competency in managing others
• Competent in 70% of testing performed within department
• Good knowledge/understanding of GMP/GLP.
• Experience of managing or supervising laboratory analysts.
• Experience in OOS and invalid assay investigations.
• Experience of raising, completing, and investigating quality records.
• BSc in relevant subject (or equivalent experience)
• Requirement for business travel.
• Offering support to the department outside of normal hours.
• Requirement to represent the business outside of BPL.

In return we offer -

We're looking for highly motivated and experienced people to drive the business forward. If you are passionate about Human Resources, we want to hear from you.

• Competitive salary
• Bonus
• 25 days holiday
• Pension
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Employee assistance programme
• My Healthy Advantage phone app
• Virtual GP
• Cycle to work scheme
• Subsidised canteen