Company Description

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

Eurofins Professional Scientific Services (PSS) is part of the Global Eurofins Business with over 61,000 employees.  Eurofins PSS recruits full time scientists on permanent positions at client sites working collaboratively side by side with clients at their site on their projects and helping to develop and bring new medicines to patients to help improve and save lives.

Job Description

This is a fulltime, permanent position working a 35 hour week flexibly Monday - Friday between 07:00 - 19:00

• Supports delivery of clinical supplies through effective management of assigned clinical project. Liaise with CSO Drug Supply Managers (DSM) on aspects of clinical supplies packaging and labelling design, on production scheduling options that enable on-time delivery of desired supplies, SAP demand entry, SAP material creation and on related purchasing activities. 
• Liaises with Drug Product Science & Technology (DPST) and Analytical where necessary to ensure required method development, standards, stability testing and associated aspects are available to support clinical supply activity. 
• Manages multiple projects.  Responsible for coordinating deliverables of assigned projects (e.g. product, code and label text) with production schedules.   Develops detailed time and event schedules, manages and tracks all activities and milestones related to assigned projects.  Identifies and reports issues to appropriate levels of management in a timely manner.
• Generates internal packaging and labeling and label print production orders in accordance with the clinical trial design and all relevant regulatory requirements for assigned projects.  Responsible for the creation and/or release of BOMs and process orders for assigned projects within SAP, including relevant checks on order accuracy, etc. 
• Drives collaboration with CSO, Analytical and Quality colleagues to ensure on-time testing and release of assigned projects.
• Sources labels from approved label vendors.  Supports the CSO outsourcing strategy through monitoring compliance with applicable Master Service, Technical and Quality Agreements with identified vendors and completion of vendor quality metrics.
• Ensures regulatory and GMP compliance of activities in assigned areas of responsibility, through monitoring and management of vendor performance and reporting any deviations immediately to the appropriate line management and Quality unit.
• Supports cost efficiency of outsourced operations through leverage of project volume driven discounts, consolidation of outsourced activities where appropriate and the use of best value suppliers. 
• Supports GMP compliance through conducting assigned investigations for deviations, contributing to maintenance of the CSO Risk Register.
• Authors new and/or reviews existing procedural documents.  Ensures processes remain in compliance with current GMP, superior BMS procedural documents and are aligned with relevant business practices.
• Identifies opportunities for improving business processes and/or participates on project teams that are focused on continuous improvement. 
• Participates in assigned training including CGMP and safety training.  May provide staff training as identified.
• Ensures project management and outsourcing operations are sustainable at all times through development of self and others such that technical support is maintained across the breadth of services provided.
• Responsible for checking BOMs, change and process orders for other Project Management Coordinators. 
• Executes TECO transaction on completed process orders.  Compiles supporting documentation and delivers a body of evidence (batch records) that supports the release of finished supplies for clinical use. Liaises with Quality Assurance to secure release of finished supplies.
• Manages auxiliary labeling requests and outsourced packaging and labeling at an approved vendor.

Qualifications

• BSc degree in Life Sciences, IT or related field or equivalent qualification. Significant relevant experience may be considered in lieu of educational qualifications
• Some experience in clinical supplies project management.
• At least 2 years relevant experience working in a GMP regulated industry
• Strong problem solving skills and ability to work effectively with other teams and individuals to resolve problems, schedule and prioritise work. This will include working across geographies on cross-functional teams
• Ability to work accurately to deadlines in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to develop and share knowledge and teach others in the areas of clinical trial label generation and production.
• Working knowledge and understanding of MRP systems (i.e. SAP).

Additional Information

Benefits

At Eurofins we are growing, innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognise our colleagues special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.

As a Eurofins employee you will benefit from:

• Reward & Recognition
• Company Pension Plan
• Health Care Cash Plan
• Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential support.
• Free car parking
• Worldwide career opportunities
• Everyone who joins our team also gets access to Perkbox, allowing you to save money all year round. Whether its supermarket savings or days out, the daily coffee or a summer holiday – there’s something to suit everyone’s lifestyle.

What Happens Next
 
Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it's incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit you'll be invited to meet the team to give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths. 
 
Application Tips

It’s really helpful for our Recruitment Team if you include a full up to date CV, your current location and a contact number so we can talk to you about our exciting opportunities. Please also detail your current Right to Work status in the UK.
 
Due to the high volume of applications we receive please be aware that if you do not receive a response within 4 weeks of the vacancy expiry date unfortunately, on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful. 

We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us!  We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!