Project Coordinator (7-month FTC)

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.