Lab Manager

Main Accountabilities

• Day to Day responsibility for the laboratory team
  • Line management and supervisory responsibility
  • Identifying and carrying out all required training
  • Recruiting and training future talent for future roles in the larger organization
• Formulation Development
  • Represent Azelis expertise with key principals and at industry events
  • Lead the development of project plans, senior lab staff, commercial colleagues, customers, and principals.
  • Act as a leading Azelis technical expert with forward vision and deep insight into future technical trends.   Provide technical guidance for our lab projects and areas in which we should focus.
  • Routinely provide expert customer support with clear, concise, and timely communication.
  • Listen to customer requests, document them in clear objective terms, and identify possible ways to technically fulfill them, and prioritize them with commercial guidance.
  • Deliver a steady stream of unanticipated technical innovations over time. Identify opportunities to not just match competitive technology but advance beyond competitive technology
  • Conduct lab studies to prepare the formulations and test aspects of their performance.
  • Interpret lab results.   Form and report sound conclusions and recommendations in a clear manner.
  • Develop theoretical technical insight into unanticipated formulation behavior and use this to develop innovative formulations.

• Implement laboratory procedures
  • Develop new test methods for formulation performance testing.
  • Assist with the management of the laboratory by ensuring accurate records are kept in line with regulatory requirements, maintaining stock records where required, and perform maintenance on equipment.
• Knowledge Sharing
  • Use digital tools as they are developed for the betterment of Azelis knowledge sharing.
  • Communicate/Share knowledge and discoveries with technical and commercial colleagues on a regional and global basis as appropriate
  • Work in cooperation with marketing to share Azelis knowledge as needed for commercial success.
  • Communicate learning to our global labs.
• Training
  • Provide technical training for our commercial and technical colleagues in our lateral value chain of products and formulations based on them
  • Assist commercial colleagues in seeing how they can use the Azelis labs to achieve competitive advantage
• Health and Safety
  • Responsibility for all health and safety procedures in the laboratory
  • Continuous improvement of health and safety procedures
  • Ensure all team members follow health and safety procedures
  • Provide training to team members where required

Experience, Skills & Education

• BS degree minimum; MS or PhD preferred.

• Broad related industry experience and understanding      
• Operational experience in the market segment served or an adjacent field
  • Analytical approach and attention to detail
  • Excellent listening skills and ability to write and speak clearly and persuasively
  • Ability to liaise with people at all levels and to influence and achieve results through others
  • Excellent customer service skills
  • Ability to quickly learn new systems and product technologies
  • Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines (with safe procedures always the first responsibility)
  • Strong, relevant IT skills
  • Flexible approach
  • Team player; Ability to work as part of a small team
  • Good knowledge of English