Job Role: Team Leader Length of contract: Permanent Full-time contract Hours: 37.5 per week Site: Chapel-en-le-Frith (occasional travel to Sandwich, Kent, may be required) Salary range : Competitive Overview Concept Life Sciences is seeking an experienced Senior Team Leader (Analytical) to provide strong scientific and people leadership within our analytical function. This is a senior, lab-based leadership role combining hands-on technical expertise with team and operational management, supporting a diverse portfolio of client projects across small molecules and emerging modalities. You will act as a trusted scientific lead, driving high-quality analytical delivery while developing team capability, ensuring efficient operations, and contributing to the continued growth and success of the department. What you will be doing As an Analytical Team Leader, you will lead the day-to-day delivery of analytical work across a portfolio of projects, ensuring outputs are consistently high quality, on time, and aligned to customer and business expectations. You will plan and coordinate team activities, effectively managing workloads and resources in a dynamic, multi-project environment. Staying close to the science, you will provide hands-on technical oversight, supporting method development, troubleshooting, and ensuring analytical data is robust, reliable, and fit for purpose. Alongside delivery, you will play a key role in building a high performing, engaged team, providing coaching, mentoring, and clear direction to support individual and team success. You will champion effective processes, documentation, and compliance standards, ensuring the team operates efficiently and is always audit-ready. Through a focus on continuous improvement, you will identify and implement better ways of working, supporting the adoption of new technologies and approaches that enhance team capability, performance, and overall service delivery. About You You will bring strong analytical science expertise, with a PhD or equivalent experience and a solid track record in an industrial (CRO, pharma, or biotech) environment. You will be a confident people leader, experienced in guiding, developing, and motivating scientific teams to deliver high-quality outcomes. You will have broad technical knowledge of analytical techniques (e.g. UPLC-MS, SFC, NMR, GC-MS), with the ability to provide practical support and scientific direction. You will be highly organised and able to manage competing priorities, allocate resources effectively, and deliver to timelines in a multi-project environment. You will communicate clearly and collaborate effectively, acting as a trusted partner to colleagues and stakeholders across projects. You will be proactive and improvement-focused, seeking opportunities to enhance ways of working, team capability, and overall performance. Why join us: In addition to a competitive salary, we provide generous holiday entitlement, a pension scheme with enhanced employer contributions, a health cash plan covering a range of therapy treatments, a cycle-to-work scheme, a retail discount scheme, death in service benefit, a discretionary bonus scheme, and free on-site parking. You’ll also have access to our BHN Extras platform, offering cashback, discounts, and tech/home purchases via salary sacrifice. Colleague wellbeing is important to us, we offer 24/7 virtual GP access, emotional support services, and a comprehensive wellbeing hub. We’re proud of our inclusive, supportive culture and provide a range of learning and development opportunities to help you grow both personally and professionally. About Concept Life Sciences: Concept Life Sciences is a multi-disciplined Contract Research Organisation based in the UK providing market-leading scientific services globally. Over the past 25 years, Concept Life Sciences and its heritage companies have played a pivotal role in guiding numerous clients along their path to clinical success and many of these clients have evolved into enduring scientific collaborators. From our 4 sites across the UK, we provide world-leading expertise to the pharmaceutical, biotech, agrochemical, and material science industries. We have clients across Europe, Asia, and the US, who value our knowledge-based, science-led, and customer-focused approach.