****We have an opportunity for a QC Sample Management Group Leader to join our PSS Site in Ringaskiddy****

The primary purpose of this role is to lead a team of technical employees to ensure that the group is operating at the highest quality and productivity standards, have high morale and retention.  This person will be a key point of contact for the client on a day-to-day basis, with the support of the Eurofins site Manager.

What can Eurofins offer you as an employee of ours?

• Developmental opportunities and career progression
• The opportunity to work with our client - a world -leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology company
• Location is easily accessible
• Private Medical Insurance 
• Income protection and life assurance
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Free parking onsite
• Full use of the canteen facilities on the client site
• Additional annual leave days with continued service
• The opportunity to work on therapeutic drugs helping to save lives across the world

Consider joining Eurofins, where people are the most important element in our business. Eurofins is a leading contract research organisation providing testing and research services in the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical sciences to clients worldwide.

This position is to join our innovative Professional Scientific Services (PSS) programme as an employee of Eurofins.  The programme places full-time analysts, technicians, scientists and technical support personnel managed by Eurofins directly at the client facility to provide long term staffing needs while maintaining the same services, expertise and cGMP compliance available at the Eurofins facility. This award-winning programme offers excellent career opportunities for people who have a proven track recording in combining excellent technical ability with first class interpersonal and communication skills

In general, the Group Lead is expected to spend 50% of their time on leadership duties, and 50% of their time on laboratory based activities. 

The responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Effectively coordinating and leading a team so that productivity, quality, documentation, work schedules, safety and housekeeping are run at maximum efficiency.
• Ensuring 100% ethical work standards and GMP compliance.
• Development, coaching, motivation, and morale of team members through effective teambuilding and use of reward and recognitions systems celebrating team success.
• Ensuring that work is scheduled and cross training takes place so that the service levels agreed with the client are achieved.  
• Ensuring that all team members are trained and have completed training records for all training completed.
• To perform routine and non-routine technical duties, and various support activities as required by the client.
• Involvement in forecasting and scheduling of activities within QC sample management.
• Act as SME for sample management taking personal ownership of/ being the key point of contact for QC for sample management.
• Key point of contact for the client in relation to sample management deliverables.
• Lead quality and EHS investigations where necessary.

• A degree or diploma in chemistry, biochemistry, biotechnology or a related subject.
• A Masters or PhD qualification in chemistry, biochemistry, biotechnology would be an advantage.
• At least 3 years’ experience in a pharmaceutical industry GMP laboratory
• Experience in a leadership capacity is desirable.
• Good team player, organised, accurate, have strong documentation skills
• Passionate about quality and client service.

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company which provides a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries. The Group believes it is the world leader in food, environment and pharmaceutical products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and for supporting clinical studies. In addition, Eurofins is one of the key emerging players in specialty clinical diagnostic testing in Europe and the USA.

Group's key figures are approx. 6.7 billion Euros turnover, over 940 laboratories across 59 countries and about 61,000 staff.