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Evotec

Global drug-discovery services via partnerships

Group Leader, Compound Library - External customer focus

Biology & BiotechConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeToulouse, FranceNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • PhD or engineer’s degree in Life Sciences.
  • A minimum of 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, especially in screening, compound or sample management, or biobanking.
  • Proven experience managing team leaders.
  • Proven understanding of laboratory automation.
  • Experience as a scientist, project leader, and managerial leader.
  • Advanced proficiency in both English and French.
  • Outstanding leadership and people-management skills, including management of approximately 15–20 people across multiple teams.
  • Expertise in project management, presentation, and communication.
  • Broad experience and relevant expertise in drug discovery.
  • Experience and understanding of financial monitoring.
  • Strong experience in project management and implementing process-optimization approaches.
  • Proven expertise in sample management or extensive knowledge of screening, drug discovery, and automation processes.
  • Ability to lead and influence peers, superiors, and subordinates in a rapidly changing and growing environment.
  • Ability to lead within cross-functional and multidisciplinary teams.
  • Extensive knowledge of automation, data management, and informatics tools.

Responsibilities

  • Lead several teams in their daily compound-management activities, focusing on external-customer projects with dedicated resources.
  • Develop and mentor leaders and colleagues to help them achieve their potential.
  • Initiate, develop, and maintain customer relationships.
  • Provide technical leadership in automation and sample-management processes, applying expertise in drug-discovery workflows.
  • Support the strategic development of the department and innovative customer services.
  • Maintain relationships with internal customers, other departments, and other company sites.
  • Contribute to the Toulouse Sample Management business strategy with the service head and other group leaders.
  • Contribute to management of the service with the other group leaders and the service head.
  • Coordinate and align activities with other departments and company sites as required.
  • Manage and develop the technical and leadership skills of team leaders and technicians in Sample Management.
  • Lead resource allocation and priority-setting, ensuring compound orders are prepared and distributed in required forms and formats, including powder, solutions, plates, and ARP, to meet agreed deadlines.
  • Monitor and drive group activities using key performance indicators.
  • Ensure customer timelines, milestones, and expectations are met, and maintain confidentiality of projects and data.
  • Promote positive relationships and synergies among Sample Management leaders through constructive feedback.
  • Coordinate customer relationships with project leaders and manage complex projects with dedicated teams for external customers.
  • Ensure scientific quality and rigor across all activities.
  • Provide scientific leadership and operational excellence across compound management.
  • Lead scientific and technology improvements to maintain state-of-the-art facilities and processes.
  • Ensure high quality and productivity in accordance with applicable quality policies and health and safety procedures.
  • Lead and support continuous-improvement projects.

Desired Qualifications

  • A strong international industrial and academic network.
  • Knowledge of Mosaic and/or LIMS systems.
  • Knowledge or expertise in Lean Sigma and continuous improvement.

About the Company

Evotec

Global drug-discovery services via partnerships

Evotec provides research and development services for drug discovery and development through strategic partnerships with pharma, biotech, and academic groups. Its work relies on proprietary platforms such as iPSC-derived cellular models and machine learning to run experiments and analyze data from early discovery through clinical development, often using patient-derived materials to support precision medicine. Unlike many competitors, Evotec offers an integrated, end-to-end R&D platform within collaborations, combining data-driven biology with cell- and gene-therapy capabilities rather than selling standalone tools. Its goal is to bring new and better medicines to patients faster and at lower cost by making the drug development process more efficient through partnerships.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Hamburg, Germany
Founded
1993

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