Production Manager, ALS Life Sciences Northern Europe

The ALS Northern Europe Life Science sub-region is a part of the ALS Group, one of the largest laboratory testing companies in the world. The sub-region consists of approx. 300 employees with laboratories in Luleå, Stockholm, Landskrona, Humlebæk, Oslo and Helsinki.
The main services are chemical and microbiological testing of Environmental, Food and Pharmaceutical samples.
Production Manager
ALS Life Sciences Northern Europe
About the position
As the Production Manager (PM) of the Northern Europe Life Science sub-region your main responsibilities will be the implementation, development and continuous management of the ALS Production Management Platform (PMP) across the sub-region’s laboratories. The PMP is a global ALS standard to manage and optimize the operations within a testing laboratory. Currently PMP is implemented at 20 ALS laboratories around the globe and another 40 planned for implementation during the next year.
Furthermore, you and your team will be leading the work of building laboratories and expanding our laboratory capabilities, as well as re-designing and refurbishing some of our laboratories. This will be done in close cooperation with local management.
Upon request from local management, and at your team’s availability, you will also support the laboratories in the sub-region with various types of method development and improvements.
The Production Manager position is a high-level position, part of the sub-region’s management team, reporting directly to the sub-region’s General Manager. In your team you will have two direct reports, one Organic Instruments Assisting Production Manager and one Inorganic Instruments Assisting Production Manager. These are new full-time positions and are announced together with the production manager position. The final recruitment of these positions will be done after the recruitment of the PM, by the PM.
The position is preferably based in Danderyd (Stockholm), but other locations in the sub-region could be discussed. The reason for this is that Danderyd is the geographically most centred location, with most other sites of the sub-region just a single flight or night train away. Furthermore, the GM, to whom the PM reports, is based at this location. The position will require a rather significant amount of travelling.
Profile
We are looking for an applicant with wide experience of instrumental analysis, extensive data management skills, project and management experience. Training and experience from process improvement techniques such as Lean, Six Sigma, etc is meriting. A genuine interest of process optimization and a persistent personality are believed to be important to be successful in this role. You bring energy and drive but also patience and empathy to be able to deliver right solutions in major projects. The role also expects you to be good at building relationships with stakeholders on various levels.
You are believed to have at least 10 years of work experience, probably from a testing laboratory, but experience from manufacturing or software development industries is also meriting.
We offer you:
· an exciting environment with the opportunity to influence and co-operate with dedicated and enthusiastic teams in the Northern Europe region
· the opportunity to make a real difference in optimization and management of operations for the future


Interested?
Please send your application via e-mail to personal.lu@alsglobal.com not later than
3 January 2021.
For more information about the position please contact:
Martin Stener, General Manager, ALS Life Sciences, Northern Europe
+46 730 48 52 04, martin.stener@alsglobal.com


Union representative:
Unionen: Jenny Lundmark, 0920-28 99 64, jenny.lundmark@alsglobal.com