Are you an experienced leader with strong communication and organizational skills, even in situations where quick and sound decision-making is required? You combine connecting leadership with clarity: you inspire and dare to set direction. Do you also have a passion for healthy and safe food and an affinity with working in a chemical laboratory? Then you might be our new colleague.We, Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR), are looking for a new Team Leader for the Authenticity, Additives and Nutrients team.
Please note; fluency in Dutch is a must have for this position. We can’t take applications into procedure which are not in Dutch.
What will you do?As team leader, you focus on the optimal performance of your team and on developing the team as a whole. You ensure that your team members can carry out their work well in a pleasant and safe working environment. As team leader, you are integrally responsible for your team of about 18 professionals. This means that you not only focus on your own tasks but also share responsibility for the entire process together with your colleagues. You think along, keep an overview, and act in the interest of the collective result. In this way, we build a strong, cohesive approach in which quality and collaboration are central.
Your tasks and responsibilities as team leader include: - safeguarding the scientific and technical quality of the chemical analyses delivered by your team. You organize the work processes in such a way that the team can deliver optimal results with everyone taking their own responsibility;
- effectively deploying team members in projects and other tasks that are important for achieving the team’s results;
- supporting the personal development, effectiveness, well-being, and job satisfaction of your team members;
- monitoring the quality of project execution: keeping oversight of all projects in your team, tracking progress, identifying bottlenecks, and adjusting where necessary;
- responsibility for the financial results.
In addition, together with your fellow team leaders, you will be part of the management team of the business unit. You contribute substantively to translating the WFSR vision and strategy into an annual activity plan and a strategic personnel plan for your team. You will also represent the business unit in one or more internal working groups.
Where will you be working?Wageningen Food Safety Research conducts research into safe and reliable food. We are specialists in (forensic) measurement and develop analytical methods to detect undesirable substances in food. Within the Authenticity, Additives and Nutrients team, various (raw materials for) food products, animal feed, and fertilizers are analyzed for nutrients, additives, and composition profiles. We work with classical wet-chemical analyses and a wide range of instrumental techniques including LC-MS/MS, LC-DAD, GC-FID, CFA, etc. Profiling techniques are combined with statistical analyses (chemometrics) in the context of authenticity research. In addition to scheduled analysis and research work, we occasionally handle urgent samples. This demands a high level of flexibility from the team members.
The Authenticity, Additives and Nutrients team is part of the business unit Authenticity & Veterinary Drugs, which, in addition to research and routine analyses of food, feed, and fertilizers, also conducts analytical-chemical research and develops new chemical analysis methods.