Associate Director, Specimen Management - Eurofins Central Laboratory

The Director/Manager Specimen Management has the overall responsibility of the department Specimen Management as far as it concerns the tasks described below.

Key Accountabilities

• Manages and is accountable for departmental operations.
• Supervises and coordinates the activities of personnel to efficiently handle the day-to-day workload.
• 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 makes salary adjustments accordingly.
• Prepares departmental budget in conjunction with operations management, researches, and makes recommendations for new capital equipment.
• Monitors budget performance, prepares variance analysis, and takes corrective action to ensure acceptable budget performance.
• Oversees staff in the development and evaluation of new products and procedures to increase efficiency and reduce costs.
• Responsible for the execution of the quality system of the department.
• Provides leadership for the establishment, monitoring, and analysis of departmental QA process (Jira). 
• Initiates a plan of corrective action if needed. 
• Communicates QA outcomes to appropriate individuals and departments as defined by policy.
• Participates in operational meetings and conducts regularly scheduled departmental meetings.
• Reviews, interprets, and monitors compliance with pertinent regulations/standards. 
• Interacts with Client audits and regulatory agencies as needed. 
• Reviews departmental policies and procedures manuals to maintain regulatory compliance.
• Works with other Business Process Owners to ensure that area-specific departments of responsibility are harmonized with the other ECL sites.
• Maintains an awareness of emerging technology in the field of specialty.
• Provides continuing education and training opportunities to staff, other ECL personnel, and external customers (when appropriate). 
• Fosters growth opportunities for staff.

Education
Bachelor or Master in Healthcare or Pharmaceutical sciences, or technical discipline.

Experience
Minimum of 5 years in a Central Laboratory or allied industrial environment. Strong experience in a related or similar process-orientated field would also be considered acceptable.

Skills
Strong leadership abilities, coaching, and mentoring skills.
Ability to multitask with the attention to detail.
Excellent communication skills.
Fluent in English.

Licensure/Certification
none required.

We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

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!

Find out more in our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/

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.

The Eurofins network of companies is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It 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. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 61,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 900 laboratories in 61 countries. Eurofins companies offer 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 2022, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

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