Company Description
As the National Measurement Laboratory (NML), we are the UK’s designated institute for chemical and bio-measurement and support the work of the Government Chemist. Our work addresses fundamental and emerging measurement challenges, helping to foster innovation and promoting productivity and economic growth.
The Business Development & Resourcing Team’s responsibilities include:
- Shape business opportunities from customer requests to project initiation for measurement services, including training, consultancy and RM production services
- Collect customer feedback from measurement services
- Prepare large scale grant-funded and competitive tenders, including development of appropriate financial models for contracted projects
- Manage industry accounts
- Monitor the financial performance for individual teams against divisional targets
- Support delivery of strategic projects across NL division.
Job Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the team as a Project Coordinator. This is a dual-purpose role supporting both the day-to-day business development activities of the team (40%), while also facilitating delivery of a major transformational infrastructure project – ‘Project Emerald’ (60%). Project Emerald will see the NML relocate from its current home in Teddington to a new purposed-designed facility on the Surrey Research Park in Guildford.
You will work alongside Programme/Project Managers and the Programmes Coordinator to ensure effective planning, management and delivery of our commercial services and special/CI projects. You will also work in conjunction with the Project Emerald core team supporting workstream leads across areas including design and build, IT, people, move logistics, and communications.
Key Responsibilities
Project Emerald:
- Ownership of key Project Management tool (Smartsheet), to ensure that project data is kept up to date and accurate.
- Coordination of project updates from workstream leads and other key stakeholders.
- Supporting reporting of project outcomes to the Project Emerald Teams and Executive Leadership Team.
Business Development activities:
- Support the Programmes & Commercial Management team to effectively manage various commercial projects
- Additional administration and general support to the Programmes & Commercial Management Team
- Assist Project Managers with planning and updating project information on the company’s ERP system (IFS), CRM system (Salesforce), and contract management system (IronClad).
- Assist project managers with continuous improvement activities
- Monitoring of government procurement portals and calls for tenders to identify potential business opportunities.
- Organise meetings and take minutes (after training)
Qualifications
Knowledge, Experience and Technical Skills
- Strong IT skills (competent in MS Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint))
- Proven ability to work to deadlines.
- Good interpersonal skills and ability to work with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Excellent organisational skills, including meticulous record keeping and attention to detail.
- Strong prioritisation skills with the ability to manage competing demands.
- Able to multitask and complete work to tight deadlines.
Additional Information
The job holder will be able to demonstrate the following behaviours in line with LGC’s values:
Passion for organisation and delivering challenging tasks to time.
Curiosity to understand support systems and procedures.
Integrity to develop relationships with internal and external customers.
Brilliance to identify innovative approaches to improve delivery.
Respect for all colleagues and collaboration with a range of individuals including programme/project managers, lab staff and senior management.
Top Skills
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.
