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About the role
As a Laboratory Leader you will be playing a crucial role in the smooth running of our business, you’ll support our forecasting and planning cycle.
Laboratory Leader
Nottingham
Competitive Salary & excellent benefits package
Your responsibilities
- Lead a team of 8 Quality Control microbiologist
- Ensuring Nottingham laboratories activities are fully compliant with regulatory and Reckitt guidelines to minimise risk to consumers, company and brand name.
- Ensuring workloads are organised to meet Production Customer Service targets.
- Ensure that new and existing product developments are introduced into the laboratories at minimum risk of non-compliance, rejection at time of manufacture through robust method transfer/validation.
- Collate appropriate KPI data to monitor performance of the laboratory & /or factory and review trends to identify areas of continuous improvement.
- With the support of the QC Operations Manager determine on-going strategy to meet future business demands and needs.
- Changing the culture of the laboratory to accept more ownership for performance and results
- Maintain and improve Compliance to GCLP/GMP and QP release.
- Maintaining Laboratory in a fully compliant / audit ready state
- Maintain customer service, cost and quality balance.
- Proactive management to deliver all KPIs
- Encourage individual and team development contribute to bench strength and work closely with factory teams to deliver key business objectives
- Challenge teams to make their own decisions and accept responsibility for the outcome
The experience we're looking for
- Degree in relevant Science subject, or HNC\D with relevant experience
- 4 years relevant professional experience
- Knowledge and experience of pharmaceutical manufacturing is advantageous but not essential.
- Knowledge of UK and EU standards and legislation is advantageous but not essential.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to influence
- Ability to lead investigations using effective problem-solving approach
What we offer
With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way.
We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.
Equality
We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.
