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Business Operations Manager

Northreach
Nottingham
6 days ago
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Position Summary

We are seeking a proactive and highly organisedBusiness Operations Support Managerwith experience in thelife sciences or pharmaceutical industry, ideally within astart-up or fast-growing environment. This role is critical in supporting operational activities across R&D or development teams, ensuring smooth project delivery, robust documentation management, and audit readiness.

Key Responsibilities

  • Manage and maintain project documentation onSharePoint and OneDrive, ensuring accuracy, version control, easy access, and compliance with audit requirements.
  • Act asArchivist, ensuring structured retention of controlled documentation.
  • Coordinate and support project-related meetings, including scheduling, logistics, agendas, and minutes.
  • Format and prepare documents forregulatory and governance submissions.
  • Track project deliverables and milestones, flagging issues or delays proactively.
  • Supportcontract administrationfor project vendors and collaborators, including routing documents for signature and maintaining records.
  • Facilitate onboarding of new staff and external partners by coordinating system access and distributing project documentation.
  • Send out project updates and operational reminders to keep cross-functional teams aligned.
  • Provide general administrative support such asexpense processing, internal communication, and ad hoc tasks.
  • Assist externalQualityconsultants with documentation tracking, compliance tasks, and meeting coordination.

Requirements

  • Prior experience inlife sciences or pharmaceutical operations(required).
  • Acan-do attitudeand willingness to support cross-functional teams with flexibility and initiative.
  • Experience in abiotech, start-up, or scaling environment(strongly preferred).
  • Proficiency inMicrosoft 365, especially SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Excel.
  • Strong attention to detail, communication, and multitasking skills.
  • Comfortable working in afast-paced, evolving environmentwith cross-functional teams.
  • Familiarity withregulated documentation, GxP expectations, and SOP compliance is a plus.

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