Company Description
Toronto Research Chemicals (TRC) was founded in 1982 to manufacture and supply researchers in the biomedical fields with specialized complex organic small molecules that were not commercially available. Today, Toronto Research Chemicals Inc. employs over 450 full-time staff, of which approximately 250 are PhD's and MSc's, operating in 120,000 square feet of facilities. TRC currently offers an extensive catalogue in excess of 350,000 products to more than 120 countries. TRC is proud to partner with LGC Standards, a global leader in the life science sector, providing mission critical components to customers across clinical diagnostics, pharmaceutical, research and government, food and other applied markets.
Job Description
This is a 12-month contract position.
Position Summary
To provide support in custom synthesis quoting process by investigating new products and identifying existing compounds from the customer requests. Maintaining product data in the internal systems and website of existing products as well as providing correct product data of new products to create parts codes.
Key Accountabilities
Catalogue Management
- Compile details of all new and revised products and prepare EDM template to reflect changes in the web and internal systems
- Validate product change/part creation requests, process and submit them to EDM
- Collaborate with other departments such as QA, Production and Compliance to maintain product information
- Proactively update product data as required
- Ensure that the urgent enquires are processed in a timely manner
New Product Quotes
- Identify new products from customer inquiries and/or alternatives products and oversee quote timelines to ensure deadlines are met
- Make preliminary determination of sources (resale or manufacture) for the new products
- Initiate investigation of new products based on priority level and send potential resale product to Procurement Department
- Report any potential patent, or safety issues concerning the inquired product
- Work with internal stakeholders to estimate the costing of the new products and price resale products by conducting a competitive analysis
- Work closely with other planning and quoting team to ensure customer timelines are met
Perform Other Duties
- Perform other duties and complete additional projects as assigned, commensurate with job knowledge and experience.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Chemistry is required
- 1-2 years product development experience is an asset
- Good knowledge of organic synthesis
- Experience with SQL is an asset
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel
- 1-2 years experiences with pricing, product development, product management and marketing
- Strong attention to detail is required
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Experience using ChemDraw and SciFinder
- Solid interpersonal, oral and written communication skills
- Highly developed analytical, evaluative and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work well independently as well as in a team environment
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with many interruptions and multiple priorities
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What We Do
LGC is a leading, global life science tools company, providing mission-critical components and solutions into high-growth application areas across the human healthcare and applied market segments. Its high quality product portfolio is comprised of mission-critical tools for genomic analysis and for quality assurance applications, which are typically embedded and recurring within our customers’ products and workflows and are valued for their performance, quality and range. LGC’s tools play a key role in customer workflows from discovery applications through to commercial manufacture and enable its customers to: bring new diagnostics and therapies to market; progress research and development; optimise food production; and continuously monitor and enhance the quality of food, the environment and consumer products. LGC’s 175+ years of scientific heritage, combined with a track record of innovation and value-enhancing acquisitions, has enabled the company to build its product portfolio and expertise, and develop deep relationships with customers, industry partners and the global scientific community. LGC’s core purpose of Science for a safer world and its core values of passion, curiosity, integrity, brilliance and respect, drive its culture. As of 30 June 2021, it employs 4,350 employees, of which over 1,175 employees hold PhD and/or master’s degrees. Its products and services are delivered by highly qualified and experienced teams, operating from a global network of accredited sites that showcase its scientific and manufacturing capabilities.
