Why you should apply for the Quality Control Manager / Laboratory Manager position: Fast-Paced & Innovative: Enjoy variety and a challenge? This role offers daily engagement with cutting-edge products, ensuring no two days are the same. Expand your skills in a dynamic environment while contributing to exciting innovations. Progression & Growth: With fast growth, this company offers ample opportunities for career development. Whether it's new skills, responsibility, or climbing the ladder, you'll progress in a business that values personal growth and development. Make a Difference: In this close-knit team, your contributions will be recognised and valued. You'll see the impact of your work and be part of a supportive environment where achievements genuinely count. Impressive Benefits: Enjoy great perks like a generous discretionary bonus and zero-cost healthcare. Benefit from excellent on-site facilities, allowing you to grab lunch, relax, or even get in some after-work exercise. Fantastic Environment & Security: Work in a modern lab with top-of-the-line equipment backed by a market-leading international parent company, giving you long-term stability and support for your career. What you'll do as the Quality Control Manager / Laboratory Manager You will oversee the Quality Control (QC) laboratory, ensuring the smooth running of daily operations while adhering to Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standards. Responsibilities will include: - Leadership: Manage and mentor a team of analysts, helping them develop their skills and ensuring high-quality testing procedures. Testing: Conducting and verifying analytical testing using HPLC and GC techniques. Standards: Maintaining and improving lab standards, ensuring a clean and organised work environment. Manufacturing: Collaborating with the production team to ensure schedules are met, enabling the business to operate efficiently. Continuous Improvement: Driving continuous improvement by developing and validating new methods and techniques to enhance laboratory processes. What we're looking for from the Quality Control Manager / Laboratory Manager Education: A degree in chemistry, analytical chemistry, forensic science, pharmaceutical science, or similar. Experience: A background in the pharmaceutical industry, with a solid understanding of GMP. This could have been gained as a laboratory manager, QC manager, quality control manager, etc. Skills: Hands-on experience with HPLC and GC and the willingness to carry out testing using them. Leadership: Strong leadership skills with a proven ability to manage teams and prioritise effectively. What you'll receive: Salary: £50,000 - £55,000, dependent on skills and experience. Bonus: After probation, you will be eligible for a discretionary bonus of up to 20%, subject to personal and company performance. Healthcare: After probation, zero cost-full private healthcare with the award-winning Vitality for you; the company will even pay the tax Additional options are available for your immediate family. Holidays: 33 days of holiday per year, including bank holidays. Leisure & Convenience: On-site discounted gym, on-site cafeteria, and free parking. Insurance & Pension: Death in service benefit of x4 of basic salary and a contributory pension scheme. Ready to make a difference? This role is not just about managing day-to-day operations; it's about shaping the future of the laboratory, driving improvements, and having a direct hand in the company's success. If you are a lab manager, laboratory manager, QC manager, quality control manager or similar, with knowledge of HPLC, GC, GMP, Pharma, and you're looking for a role where you can combine technical expertise with leadership in a highly respected and innovative company, Apply Today By clicking Apply you accept our privacy policy (see the link below or visit the footer of our website) and give permission for Sigma to contact you via email, phone & SMS regarding this job, other jobs and general recruitment services. Location & postcode of advert are approximate. Privacy Policy: sigmarec.co.uk/privacypolicy