We have an exciting opportunity for a Team Leader to join our Quality team. The role is to lead a team of quality control analysts testing a variety of materials including active pharmaceutical ingredients, excipients and commodities. All of these are integral to making sure the products we make conform to the highest standards. The role has technical and supervisory responsibility for all testing activities that are required to support licensed products manufactured in the UK.

The team leader will need to know how to motivate teams to perform to their best and work with them to make sure that everybody is working as effective and efficiently as possible. The teams all test different elements of our finished dose products and one major project will be lead cross skills training across the three teams.

They will be responsible for making sure all EHS and quality actions are raised, addressed and closed out in a timely fashion, identifying any issues and escalating them accordingly. The role holder will also work closely with other internal teams when bringing on new products to make sure a smooth and effective transfer of information, techniques and knowledge.

We have two main systems that would be great if the candidate has existing experience of, these are Empower and SAP.

As a Team Leader you will:
• Ensures the department is staffed by employees of such calibre that they are able to achieve the Corporate and personal goals set by the Head of QC
• Plan and adjust the resources required to delivery results as required by the business to support batch release.
• Maintain training standards of staff to a high level and ensure that staff are appropriately cross skilled.
• Be designated subject matter expert in area of responsibility meaning that they own, understand in detail and looks for opportunities to continuously improve procedures, methods and specifications in the area.
• Enforces and encourages a high standard of analytical testing and verification within the group .Ensures the quality of the testing, reporting and recording meets ‘best practice’ and compliance standards
• Manages the analytical testing of the products in the schedule, which incorporates the following activities:
- Reviews the standard of testing and GCLP and carries out verifications
- Continually reviews analytical performance
- Trends the testing data as part of a periodic review
- Generates appropriate lab KPIs
• Represents the company at Regulatory audits, interfacing directly with the auditors or regulatory inspectors

Key requirements:
• Minimum level 5 education - e.g Foundation degree
• Proven experience of leading a team
• Excellent and credible experience in a laboratory environment
• Knowledge of regulations and policies
• Experience in working on the bench both in manual and highly instrumented environments i.e HPLC

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where all employees feel that they can be their real and authentic selves whilst being treated with dignity and respect. We are always happy to explore flexible working and we are a proud member of the disability confident employer scheme. In short we are an equal opportunity employer who will review your application based solely on your skills, experience & potential.

What we offer you
We want to provide an environment where our colleagues play an active part in the growth of our business. A challenging but supportive environment where talented people can really grow and take advantage of a wide range of diverse opportunities that we offer.

We are confident that we offer a competitive salary and benefits package to all our colleagues including 27 days holiday plus statutory holidays, 3% employer contribution to pension scheme, group life assurance, employee share schemes and an active well-being programme.

About Aesica
We are a leading pharmaceutical CDMO and part of Consort Medical Group, renowned for developing and manufacturing both APIs and finished dose forms to the pharmaceutical industry. We are constantly developing the technical and analytical skills of our people to ensure that we are capable of meeting the ever-changing demands of our customers. Our state-of-the-art facilities are home to around 1,300 colleagues across six development, manufacturing and operational sites in the UK, Germany and Italy.

Our Values
The culture at Aesica is driven by five core values. Integrity drives mutual Respect. Integrity and Respect are the basis for Team Work. Integrity, Respect and Team Work promote a Results Driven and Customer Focused culture.

Integrity > Respect > Team Work > Results Driven > Customer Focus

Posting date: 15/06/2018
Closing date: 15/07/2018

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