Lead Project Manager – Food Sciences Lab

Mondelēz International; Reading; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance Related Bonus

Contributory pension

Life assurance

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Flex benefits programme

Job summary

Reading Scientific Services Ltd (RSSL) is a leading contract research organisation delivering analytical services to the food, pharmaceutical and consumer goods sectors. The Project Manager role sits within our Food Sciences laboratory, overseeing a portfolio of studies from novel foods to method validations.

You will manage projects, mentor scientists, ensure data quality and regulatory compliance, and coordinate cross-site activities.

Qualifications

• Educated to Degree or PhD in a relevant scientific discipline or equivalent relevant experience in a laboratory.
• Scientific understanding and ability to independently manage and deliver several projects.
• Accountable, honest, hardworking and able to work efficiently in a team.
• Flexible and adaptable to meet customer/business requirements.
• Well organised and capable of working on multiple activities concurrently.
• Good verbal and written skills with the ability to communicate with client’s and colleagues.
• Self motivated, enthusiastic and quick to learn.
• Able to organise own work and others to maximise output.
• Computer literate in standard MS office applications.
• Experience of working in a regulated environment.
• English fluency (written and spoken)

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality customer service at all times by ensuring effective organisation of assigned workload, integrity of analytical data generated and timely/accurate provision of results.
• Manage internal/external projects ensuring effective work programmes to agreed timescales. To include acting as primary contact for client and managing all communications, hosting review meetings, providing project updates, preparing high quality project reports, liaising with departments to ensure practical work is scheduled and invoicing of external projects.
• Project manage a variety of projects within Food Sciences including but not limited to novel food projects, stability studies, product development activities, method development and validations.
• Demonstrate good organisational skills including engagement with relevant analytical coordinators/lab managers. Also facilitate colleagues from other sites and support where required.
• Assist with generation of client proposals for method development, transfers, stability studies and validations
• Generate certificate of analysis or external interpretive reports
• Provide training and supervise junior staff in routine activities
• Will be expected to cross train and work in different laboratories if the demand is required.

Skills

Project management

Client communication

Team leadership

Quality systems

Education

Degree or PhD in a relevant scientific discipline

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Reading Scientific Services Ltd (RSSL) is a leading contract research organisation delivering analytical services to the food, pharmaceutical and consumer goods sectors. The Project Manager role sits within our Food Sciences laboratory, overseeing a portfolio of studies from novel foods to method validations.

You will manage projects, mentor scientists, ensure data quality and regulatory compliance, and coordinate cross-site activities.