Laboratory Manager

Trouwnutritionafrica; Ashbourne CP; On-site; GBP 40,000 - GBP 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global nutrition company is seeking a Laboratory Manager to join their Ashbourne team. The role features leadership of a laboratory team, compliance with quality standards, and significant emphasis on continuous improvement. Candidates should have relevant educational qualifications and experience in analytical chemistry, alongside strong leadership skills. This fixed-term position is based on-site and offers opportunities for personal growth within a global organization.

Benefits

Pension scheme

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Stable, site-based role

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 5 years relevant experience or Master's degree with 3 years.
• Strong technical background in analytical chemistry.
• Experience managing or coordinating teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the laboratory team to build a high-performance culture.
• Coordinate daily laboratory operations, planning workloads.
• Ensure compliance with quality and accreditation standards.

Skills

Leadership

Analytical chemistry

Compliance with ISO standards

People engagement

Continuous improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Job description

Laboratory Manager - Temporary page is loaded## Laboratory Manager - Temporarylocations: Ashbourne, Derbyshiretime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: VAC26833**Job Description:****Why join us**Get ready to own your path as a Lab Manager at Trouw Nutrition GB, a Nutreco company. As global leaders in animal nutrition, our shared purpose of Feeding the Future drives innovation, collaboration, and meaningful impact.In this temporary leadership role (18 months), you will play a key role in ensuring the quality, safety, and reliability of our laboratory services, supporting customers and internal stakeholders while maintaining operational excellence. This position provides an opportunity to lead a commercial laboratory during a defined transition period, while contributing to continuous improvement and strategic development in a supportive, knowledge-driven environment**What you’ll do**In this role, you will lead and develop our laboratory team, ensuring high-quality analytical testing that supports customers, production, quality assurance, and continuous improvement.* Lead, coach, and develop the laboratory team to build a learning-focused, high-performance culture, providing leadership continuity during the fixed-term period.* Coordinate and oversee daily laboratory operations, planning workloads and ensuring accurate KPI achievement and timely reporting of results to internal and external stakeholders.* Ensure compliance with applicable quality and accreditation standards, as well as internal procedures, including the maintenance of SOPs and documentation.* Drive optimisation and continuous improvement of laboratory processes, workflows, and analytical techniques.* Support the development, validation, and introduction of new analytical methods and techniques.* Develop and apply strategic plans to optimise laboratory customer service, aligned to customer portfolio needs, sample volumes, and available resources, identifying gaps and prioritising services that deliver the highest value.* Support the dedicated LIMS project, ensuring alignment with laboratory needs and contributing to the successful implementation of the new system on site.* Manage relationships with external laboratories, suppliers, customers, internal stakeholders, and Nutreco’s global laboratory network.**Who we’re looking for*** Bachelor’s degree with 5 years’ relevant experience, or Master’s degree with 3 years’ relevant experience* Experience within a commercial laboratory environment.* Experience managing or coordinating teams working across multi-step, complex work processes.* Strong technical background in analytical chemistry.* Experience working within accredited systems (ISO 9001 / ISO 17025).* A commercial, strategic, and continuous improvement mindset, with the ability to introduce new methods, technologies, and improvement initiatives.* Knowledge of the agriculture sector and feed industry is an advantage.* Strong communication skills, with a clear focus on people engagement and cross-functional collaboration.**Location & Practicalities*** **Location:** Ashbourne* **Work model:** 100% on-site* **Employment type:** Full-time* **Contract type:** Fixed-term (18 months – temporary cover)* **Travel:** Occasional, as required**What you’ll receive**As part of Trouw Nutrition, you’ll be a member of the wider SHV family, a global group of companies known for long-term vision, stability, and investment in people.In addition, you’ll receive:* Pension scheme* 25 days of holiday per calendar year based on full-time working hours, plus 8 UK bank holidays.* A stable, site-based role with strong operational ownership* Opportunities to grow within a global organisation**How and why to find out more**We offer a role with real impact, where your leadership and laboratory expertise will directly support operational stability, quality, and continuous improvement during a defined transition period. If you’re ready to take ownership and play a key role in *Feeding the Future*, we’d love to hear from you. We aim to review applications promptly and will get back to you as soon as possible. For more information, please contact Luisa Ligabo at [e-mail]**Please note that this is a fixed-term role (18 months), and internal candidates may be considered via secondment****Applications will be accepted until 16 February****Our organisation:**Trouw Nutrition is the global leader in innovative feed specialties, premixes and nutritional services for the animal nutrition industry. Trouw Nutrition provides species-specific nutritional solutions consisting of feed concepts, products and nutritional know-how. The unique combination of products, models and services Trouw Nutrition offers, boosts productivity and supports animal health through all life stages, contributing to our customers' peace of mind. Trouw Nutrition's nutrition solutions have met the need of farmers and home-mixers, feed producers, integrators and distributors. Trouw Nutrition has locations in 25 countries and around 5000 employees. Our mission is Feeding the Future.**Equal Opportunity Employer:**Trouw Nutrition is an equal opportunity employer; applicants are considered for all roles without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital, parental, military status or any other status protected by applicable local law. Please advise us at any point during the recruitment and selection process if you require accommodation. Trouw Nutrition is committed to compliance with all applicable legislation, including providing accommodation for applicants with disabilities.Nutreco is a global leader in animal nutrition and aquafeed. Our advanced nutritional solutions are at the origin of food for millions of consumers worldwide. Its two global company brands *(aqua feed)* and *(animal nutrition)* have sales in over 90 countries.Our purpose ***Feeding the Future*** captures a big challenge: feeding 9 billion people in 2050. Our responsibility is twofold: we need to make a significant contribution to meeting the rapid increase in worldwide demand for food; on the other hand, we need to find the right balance in order that we can realize growth while making also responsible choices for people and planet.We believe in three core elements to future success: strategy execution, innovation, and competence of our people. Our values; capable, caring, collaborative, and innovative are supportive of those three core elements..