Manager, Specimen Management

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 works 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 the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in agroscience Contract Research Organisation services. Eurofins is one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations. The Group also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 55,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of 900 laboratories in over 50 countries. Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2020, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 5.4 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Job Description

Purpose of the job and expected outcome

The Manager Specimen Management has the overall responsibility of the department Specimen Management within the assigned building, as far as it concerns the tasks described below.

Key Accountabilities

• Manages and is accountable for specimen management departmental operations within the assigned building (Building D or Building Z).
  • Assigned building will be designated by formal organizational chart.
• Supervises and coordinates the activities of personnel to efficiently handle the day-to-day workload for assigned building.
• Reviews departmental policies and procedures manuals to maintain regulatory compliance.
• Provides leadership for the enforcement, improvement, monitoring, and analysis of existing departmental quality processes and Standard Operation Processes (SOP) and Work instructions (WI). 
• Ensures all job functions of designated specimen management building are executed according to documented procedures and policies as detailed in current SOPs and WIs
• Hires, transfers, promotes, disciplines, and terminates employees according to existing policies.
• Monitors the overall performance of employees.  Prepares and delivers annual and interim performance evaluations and proposes salary adjustments accordingly.
• Responsible for the execution of the quality system of the assigned departments.
• Ensures that Facility and organizations policies are adhered to within department.
• Initiates plan and documentation of corrective action if needed.
• Communicates quality outcomes to appropriate individual and departments as defined by policy.
• Participates in operational meetings and conducts regularly scheduled departmental meetings.
• Interacts with Client audits and regulatory agencies as needed.
• Contributes to and fosters a sense of teamwork, productivity, and continual improvement within departments.
• Works with other managers to ensure that area specific departments of responsibility are harmonized with the other ECL sites and geographic locations.
• Works with other organizational departments to ensure that specific responsibilities are performed and executed within agreed timelines.
• Support and provide continuing education, training, and growth opportunities to staff, and to other ECL personnel as appropriate.   
• Fosters growth opportunities for all staff.
• Ensures all staff are adequately trained and documented.

Qualifications

Basic Minimum Qualifications: 

• Minimum of 5 years managerial experience in a suitable or allied industrial environment.
  • Strong experience in a related or similar process orientated field would also be considered acceptable

• Manager will deal with confidential business, staff and client information and will need to be able to demonstrate a high level of confidentiality

• Ability exercise a high degree of flexibility in the service of the organizational interest

• Bachelor or Master in Healthcare, Biological Sciences, Pharmaceutical Science, or another technical discipline and/or experience
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