Project Coordinator (10-month FTC)

Project Coordinator (10-month FTC), Teddington

Client: LGC Group

Location: Teddington, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference: 23c42391538d

Job Views: 67

Posted: 18.02.2025

Expiry Date: 04.04.2025

Job Description:

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

• 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.