Logistics & Operation Specialist to Unilabs A/S in Copenhagen

Are you a dependable results-oriented planner? Would you know how to manage supply, logistics and related services in a way that meet our customers´ needs and expectations? Do you enjoy taking on new challenges and driving change?

Then you might be our new colleague?

We are looking for a Logistics & Operation Specialist to support our Laboratory Director with full accountability for the management of our technical activities, including sample shipments, clinical supplies, management of the logistics partners, procurement as well as customer services.

Key responsibilities in the role
The Logistics & Operation Specialist reports directly to the Laboratory Director and your main responsibilities will be to drive the smooth running of the day-to-day service and operations management. That includes:

- A hands-on monitoring of shipments and where required follow-up on outstanding inbound/outbound (e.g. patient samples, sampling material)
- Build, maintain and own collaboration with our subcontractors and vendors for courier services
- Review and approval of service invoices from subcontractors
- Drive issue resolution
- Optimise logistics solutions for ongoing projects
- Support monthly performance reporting

Further, our ideal candidate will take on an advisory role and collaborate with our Business Development team for provision of specialist level tender input on logistics solution/setup and assist in negotiations, occasionally face to face with clients and suppliers, for our GCP studies and other pharma projects.

Skills & Competences we are looking for:
Our ideal new colleague is agile and a meticulous planner with a strong collaborative mindset, a can-do attitude, and a desire to create real impact! You are not afraid to take on responsibility and enjoy dealing with many tasks in parallel. You can work effectively alone as well as in teams.

Finally, we are looking for someone to help increase operational agility, act as role-model for his/her colleagues taking the responsibilities of logistics a to the very centre of what we do

- Relevant educational background. Maybe within the mercantile field or similar at Bachelor level or a Diploma Graduate
- Approximately 8-10 years of experience from a similar position
- Knowledge from handling of air service/courier (IATA certification preferred)
- Ideally working experience with shipment of biological samples or cold chain
- Ideally working knowledge of GLP and/or GCP
- IT knowledge at user level is required
- English and Danish language skills required - other European languages are desirable

Unilabs offers competitive salary and an attractive holiday scheme. The company provides canteen, massage options, employee clubs (wine, art) great colleagues and onward career prospects in a global setting.

Unilabs is one of the largest providers of diagnostic laboratory services in Europe. We are unique in being the only provider of laboratory, imaging and pathology services and we have recently joined the AP Møller-Mærsk family. We aspire to be at the heart and start of all effective patient treatment decisions.

Our Danish organization accounts for about 50 employees; small but mighty! Here, we focus on supporting Pharma and Biotech in developing innovative new therapies while our broad offering of diagnostics tests aids healthcare professionals to treat patients effectively and efficiently. We put great effort in nurturing a company culture which is caring, informal and friendly and we sit in an open and spacious office on Østerbro just a few minutes away from the Metro and Svanemøllen Station