Job 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.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

Eurofins PSS Insourcing Solutions® is a global, award-winning insourcing solution. We place our skilled team directly at the client site, managing operations seamlessly and eliminating complexities. We ensure a strategic, long-term service commitment that delivers value directly at the client’ site, utilising their facilities, equipment, and methodologies, while maintaining the same service, expertise, and cGMP compliance available at the Eurofins facility. If you're an employee seeking an exceptional career journey, Eurofins PSS Insourcing Solutions® is your gateway to a future where innovation, collaboration, and success converge. Join us in a world where excellence knows no boundaries!

We’re proud to be an armed forces-friendly place to work and welcome applications from reservists, armed forces veterans (including the wounded, injured and sick), as well as cadet instructors, and military spouses and partners.

If you want to continue to help make our world a safer and healthier place, then apply for the role below and become a part of the extraordinary Eurofins network

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

This is a full time, permanent position, working a flexible 36.5 hour week, Monday – Friday.

As a Lead Scientist you will lead and manage an off-site Professional Scientific Staffing (PSS) team of analytical staff to ensure that team is operating at the highest quality and productivity standards, have high morale and retention, and the agreed customer requirements are entirely satisfied and that customer expectations are met or exceeded through effective leadership and quality operational management. This person will be the key point of contact for the client on a day-to-day basis.

Job Responsibilities that you be covering:

• You will coordinate and lead the PSS team to maximise productivity, quality, documentation accuracy, safety, housekeeping and overall operational efficiency in line with Eurofins standards.
• You will ensure exceptional customer service by maintaining GMP compliance, addressing queries, supporting audits and investigations, and continuously reviewing and improving commercial and quality practices.
• You will develop and support your team through coaching, performance management, training oversight, cross‑training, morale building and effective communication of expectations and changes.
• You will oversee documentation and analytical activities by reviewing/approving records, performing routine and non‑routine analysis, troubleshooting, preparing reports and ensuring data meets GMP and customer requirements.
• You will manage operational planning and resources by scheduling work, maintaining equipment and supplies, planning ahead with the customer, addressing audit findings and ensuring laboratory readiness at all times.
• You will monitor performance and drive improvement by collecting productivity metrics, presenting performance updates, identifying efficiency opportunities and ensuring uniform, reliable and customer‑focused work practices.

Qualifications

What skills, qualifications and experiences you will hold as an Lead Scientist:

• You will hold a degree in Chemistry or a related discipline, with strong fundamental chemical knowledge and relevant experience in pharmaceutical analytical development.
• You will have expertise in analytical techniques including HPLC, UV spectroscopy and chromatographic methods, along with previous responsibility for approving valid analytical measurements.
• You will have a solid understanding of GMP requirements, the ability to learn new processes quickly and confidence working with fully electronic systems such as MS Office.
• You will hold strong leadership and supervisory skills with the ability to guide teams, solve problems proactively and work independently while contributing effectively to team‑based solutions.
• You will have excellent communication abilities to build strong working relationships internally and externally, supported by accuracy, organisation and high‑quality documentation skills.
• You will hold a flexible, quality‑driven mindset with a passion for customer service, the ability to switch priorities at short notice and a commitment to Eurofins standards of reliability and performance.

Additional Information

At Eurofins we are growing, innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognise our colleagues special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.

As a Eurofins employee you will benefit from:

• Being part of a Reward and Recognition Scheme, recognising great work across our teams.
• Holiday entitlement increases with service.
• The option to opt into our Health Cash Plan, designed to help look after your everyday health and wellbeing. This allows you to claim back the cost of routine healthcare expenses such as dental check-ups, eye tests, glasses or contact lenses and other everyday medical treatments.
• Life Assurance from day one, providing cover of four times your annual salary.
• Automatic enrolment into our Company Pension Plan after three months (with the flexibility to opt out if you choose)
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme, offering 24/7 confidential support for both personal and work-related matters.
• Being able to register your interest in volunteering days, which are designed to support employees who wish to do voluntary work during working hours as part of a wider strategy to contribute positively to the local community.
• Free on-site car parking.
• The opportunity to explore worldwide opportunities.
• Everyone who joins our team also gets access to Perkbox, allowing you to save money all year round. Whether its supermarket savings or days out, the daily coffee or a summer holiday – there’s something to suit everyone’s lifestyle.

What Happens Next

Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it's incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit you'll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and it's requirements, this will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths.

Your data

As part of any recruitment process, the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.

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.

For more information about Eurofins PSS® please visit our website and watch a message below from our Global Head, Beth Di Paolo.