Team Lead

We are currently recruiting for a DNA Team Lead to join our team at our site based in Lambeth. If you are passionate about a rewarding career in Forensic testing and want to use your expertise to its full potential, then this is a great opportunity to join a well-established and successful market leading company with over 30 years' experience in providing Forensic Services to the Police forces of England and Wales, as well as other commercial organisations and public sector bodies. This is a truly exciting time to begin or continue your career with our first-class business, as a DNA Team lead you will be responsible for inspiring and empowering a team of DNA analysts to deliver results of the highest quality standard in line with business unit strategy. Due to the highly sensitive nature of the work, applicants should note that security clearance is required for this role. To gain security clearance you must have five years continuous residency in the UK. Security clearance is undertaken by a third party to police personnel vetting standards (NPPV/3 and SC), as such any criminal convictions may prevent you from gaining security clearance. Further information on the security clearance process and requirement can be found at https://www.warwickshire.police.uk/police-forces/warwickshire-police/areas/warwickshire-police/about-us/about-us/police-national-vetting-service/. In addition, all successful applicants will be required to undertake drug and alcohol testing prior to commencing employment, The successful candidate will also be expected to;

• Clearly communicate the business vision and business unit strategy to your team of analysts.
• Develop and utilise clear KPIs to empower the team to deliver on this strategy, closely monitoring outputs, taking timely action and communicating to key stakeholders when these are not achieved.
• Deliver profitable and sustainable growth through effective management of team operating costs
• Demonstrate ownership for any issues that arise, only escalating when necessary
• Use lean methodologies to organise sample throughput to achieve maximum efficiency whilst delivering against contractual obligations to customers.
• Work alongside the lean project manager to embed a continuous improvement ethos in the team.
• Deliver the BU talent management strategy to attract, develop and retain star performers.
• Develop and maintain succession plans for key roles and skills
• Direct line management of DNA team members.
• Ensure continued personal and professional development through the Eurofins PPDR process and regular 1-2-1 meetings
• Expect and recognise high performance from direct reports
• Manage performance issues
• Manage quality issues and non conformance to BU procedures.
• Manage team abstractions alongside workflow to ensure continuity of service.
• Developing a team strategy inclusive of training to ensure both team and individual wellbeing.
• Inspire passion to achieve excellent performance, ensuring recognition is provided where due
• Lead by example and earn trust, ensuring all work is completed to the highest quality standard
• Build and develop an internal network to optimise business opportunities and cross team learning.
  
  Highly motivated, enthusiastic and possesses the competence and team spirit to support others and contribute to a positive culture. Here at EFS integrity and customer focus is at the heart of everything we do.
• Must have previous management experience
• Previous work experience within a high throughput, highly regulated environment
• Strong decision maker and communicator at all levels, including with external stakeholders
• Ability to motivate and direct a team, with proven planning and organisation skills
• A confident leader who leads by Example
• Customer focused with a strong drive for delivering results.
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to develop and mentor others
• Shows resilience and tenacity in a high throughput laboratory with changing priorities.
  
  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 works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate. Eurofins believes it is a global leader in food, environmental, 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 in the support of clinical studies.
In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 50,000 staff across a network of more than 900 independent companies in over 50 countries and operating more than 800 laboratories. Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services, as one of the leading global emerging players in specialised clinical diagnostics testing. In 2020, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 5.4 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

In return for your hard work and loyal service, we will offer you genuine career and salary progression through our Career Pathways programme, a competitive salary, and a selection of employee benefits via our flexible benefits menu which includes cycle to work, give as you earn, volunteering days, buy and sell holiday. In addition, we also offer the following:
• Life Assurance (3 times annual salary)
• Scottish Widows Company Pension Plan
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (increasing to a maximum of 30 days)
• Employee length of service awards and yearly recognition schemes, celebrating work anniversaries here at EFS.
• Employee tech scheme
• Discount vouchers and flexi reward points on our employee wellness hub
• Everyone who joins EFS will have access to Perkbox allowing you to save money all year round on a wide range of perks such as supermarket savings, days out or your daily coffee
• Learning and study support
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Health Cash Plan membership
• Enhanced company sick, maternity and paternity pay scheme
• Refer a friend scheme
• Subscription to mental health support and wellbeing.