Description : Lab Manager (M/F/D. Company : Avantor. Location : Mölndal

Job Summary Avantor is currently on the lookout for a driven lab Manager to join the team in Mölndal. Are you a people-person with a lot of energy? Are you motivated to coordinate and be the first point of contact in a lab environment? Then this might be the opportunity for you! As a Lab Manager, you keep the lab up and running, will have responsibility for the day-to-day operational management of a defined set of laboratories and will actively assist with health and safety requirements. Are you passionate about sciences and do you like being a spider in the web? Interested? – Let’s talk! This role will be a full-time and permanent position, based at our customer site, AstraZeneca, in Mölndal. You’ll work from Monday to Friday, with flexible working hours and no shifts. The team You are part of a supportive team and are responsible for your own assigned lab, collaborating with a total 80 to 90 lab users from both Avantor and AstraZeneca Together with 14 other Avantor Lab Managers you belong to our department Lab and Product Services, which supports big pharmaceutical companies and laboratories all over the world, in Research and Development within the Life Sciences industry. What we’re looking for

• Education: Scientific degree, preferably in Biology, Chemistry, or Life Sciences
• Experience: validated experience in a lab environment is required
• Collaboration Tool: Basic MS Office knowledge
• Excellent communication skills in English, Swedish is a plus

Who you are

• Customer minded, highly motivated and very outgoing
• Stress resistant, good at setting priorities, and flexible

How you will thrive and create an impact

• Act as the "go-to person" for lab users and support them with problems / questions
• Take care of the Operational Management by facilitating laboratory consumables inventories
• Organize and lead regular lab user group meetings, with both internal and external partners, and lead any actions as required
• Plan preventative and scheduled maintenance regimes with minimal impact to daily operations, ensuring any helpdesk requests are completed, working with suppliers on improvement projects
• Assist in developing SOP’s for various assays particularly focused on reagents/consumables and cost saving recommendations
• Review training of lab support staff working in the area to ensure all are working to a consistent level and perform laboratory inductions for new lab users
• Provide operational support on projects to establish understanding of business needs and identify opportunities for process improvements
• Report on delivery through relevant KPIs and drive operational efficiency, cost savings, process improvements
• Work with the scientists to identify future requirements and new innovations in technology to further improve scientific capability within the function
• Create, maintain and update relevant documentation in support of service delivery, compliance and training
• Support the Department’s leadership team with health and safety compliance and identification/delivery of improvements

Why Avantor?

• You get to work in a fast paced, innovative and diverse environment
• You receive a full time, permanent contract
• You get the opportunity to establish a strong network by being in contact with multiple stakeholders
• You will receive an attractive salary added with benefits such as bonus, pension scheme and Health Care allowance
• The flexible working hours provide the opportunity to maintain an optimal Work life-balance

Dare to go further in your career. Join our global team of 14,000+ associates whose passion for discovery and determination to overcome challenges relentlessly advances life-changing science. The work we do changes people’s lives for the better. It brings new patient treatments and therapies to market, giving a cancer survivor the chance to walk his daughter down the aisle. It enables medical devices that help a little boy hear his mom’s voice for the first time. Outcomes such as these create unlimited opportunities for you to contribute your talents, learn new skills and grow your career at Avantor. We are committed to helping you on this journey through our diverse, equitable and inclusive culture which includes learning experiences to support your career growth and success. At Avantor, dare to go further and see how the impact of your contributions set science in motion to create a better world. Apply today! #LI-EUR . We will use the personal information that you have submitted to us in order to consider your application for the relevant role.
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