Company Description

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, which provides a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries. The Group believes it is the world leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and for supporting clinical studies. In addition, Eurofins is one of the leading global emerging players in specialty clinical diagnostic testing.

In 2018, Eurofins generated 4.2 billion Euro proforma turnover in 800 laboratories across 47 countries, employing about 45.000 staff.

Job Description

Position Summary:

The Project Manager Assistant Trainee (PMAT) position is an administrative role working directly with a group of Project Managers, focusing on a specific area of the business.  This role requires the use of technical functions to navigate Eurofins Lancaster Labs’ (ELLI) information systems, construct and develop relationships with ELLI’s internal scientific and support departments and assist project managers with a variety of tasks to allow the PMs to focus on client communication. Please note that this position does require direct client interaction.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

Support subcontracted report uploads into LIMS and facilitate analytical report revisionsSupport internal financial activities including purchase order and client discount management. This may include authorizing Change Orders and End of Month/Work order billing for clients that qualify.Generate various process monitor reports and manual reports to support PM and client activities (via PowerBI and LIMS)Working with scientific departments to generate cumulative report builds (via excel) to house results for life cycle of in-house stability studies. This requires interpretation of client stability protocols, including timepoints, specs and reporting requirements.Support Project Management department in an administrative capacity with a variety of other assignments (i.e. direct LIMS entry for select clients), supply/equipment ordering, DocuSign account Setup)Support Project Managers in an administrative capacity with a variety of other assignments

Qualifications

Basic Minimum Qualifications (BMQ): 

To perform this job successfully, the individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements below are representative of the knowledge, skill or ability required.

Education/Experience (BMQ):

A master’s degree in science field (M. Sc / M. Pharm / MBA), with 1-2 years of pharmaceutical industry experience preferred.

Additional Information

Key Candidate Attributes:

Self-motivation; excellent quality of work and attention to detailAbility to communicate effectively with coworkers and internal/external clientsAbility to learn new tasks quickly and to move easily from task to taskAbility to handle prioritization and multiple tasks simultaneouslyAbility to use a personal computer and learn necessary programsGood communication skills (oral and written)Organizational ability and good judgementScience background/education and/or laboratory experienceStrong Math SkillsLogical Thinking, Good Reasoning AbilityMotivation to excelCoaching/mentoring of peers