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Pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch: Convatec is a global medical products and technologies company, focused on solutions for the management of chronic conditions, with leading positions in advanced wound care, ostomy care, continence care, and infusion care. With around 10,000 colleagues, we provide our products and services in almost 100 countries, united by a promise to be forever caring. Our solutions provide a range of benefits, from infection prevention and protection of at-risk skin, to improved patient outcomes and reduced care costs. Group revenues in 2022 were over $2 billion. The company is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index (LSE:CTEC). To learn more about Convatec, please visit Convatec Group.

Job Summary

Convatec Technology Centre Oxford is a small team that supports business needs via analytical lab testing, method development, and R&D. Your role as a Document Controller and Administrator of R&D at CTEC Oxford is to provide all Quality Systems administrative support to enable the CTEC Oxford team to smoothly transition into Convatec’s electronic document management system (EDMS). You will ensure that all quality documents and required relevant records are in the correct format and templates for laboratory processes and support functions to work effectively. Although this is a desk-based role, you will liaise closely with the laboratory team to ensure document content is correctly captured. You will also work with the quality and business teams as well as project managers.

You will also have a solid track record of successful administrative work and oversee all office administrative duties which will include ownership of ancillary roles including, but not limited to, documentation drafting, shipping, purchasing supplies, maintaining office inventories, and scanning lab bench books and lab logbooks. You will be thorough and pay attention to detail and can work well with the team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure all CTEC-Oxford quality documents, including, but not limited to Work Instructions, Technical Documents, and SOPs, are in the right templates are formatted correctly, and align with Convatec’s EDMS whilst adhering to procedures for Document Control.
• Cross-check CTEC-Oxford documents with pre-existing quality documents.
• Provide document drafting, review, and approval as part of equipment and software purchase and implementation.
• With the help of management and quality teams link quality work instructions to pre-existing SOPs.
• Ensure smooth day-to-day administrative operations at CTEC Oxford team, in compliance with policies and regulations.
• Take ownership of purchasing reagents, consumables, and equipment.
• Arrange and manage on-site leadership meetings and coordinate all associated accommodation, transport, and catering.
• Review and optimize office policies and procedures, particularly documentation and filing systems.

Travel Requirements

No travel is associated with this role. Occasional visits to the R&D site at GDC, North Wales may be required.

Working Conditions

This is an office-based role.

Special Factors

This a full-time on-site role with no remote working.

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