Cpl Life Sciences

About the Company

At Cpl UK Life Sciences, we're experts at connecting talented professionals with the most ambitious companies in the industry. With excellent local knowledge of markets across the UK, Switzerland, and the USA, you can trust us to help with all your life science recruitment.

We cover:
- UK
- Switzerland + Europe
- USA

From big pharma, CROs to small biotech start ups, we can deliver the total talent solutions you need.

- Permanent
- Contract/temporary
- FSP
- Embedded (multi-hire)
-Executive Search

Our team has an acute understanding of all life sciences functions. We provide talent and staffing solutions across a range of pharmaceutical disciplines including: clinical, pharmacovigilance, regulatory affairs, commercial, medical communications, and engineering.

We are an award winning staffing agency, with a strong commitment to EDI, and sustainability. Our mission is to be the UK’s best sustainable talent partner across all our core markets, adding meaningful value to lives of our clients, candidates and colleagues.

Listed Jobs

Company Name

Cpl Life Sciences

Job Title

VPAG & Pricing Controller

Job Description

VPAG & Pricing Controller

Location: Walton Oaks (Hybrid working- 2-3 days in the office pw)
Pay rate: £28.85 - £37 ph / Umbrella rate : £32.33 - £41.53 ph depending on experience
Duration: 6 months
Hours: 37 hours per week

Job Description:
To be the UK’s VPAG (Voluntary Pricing, Access and Growth) expert - The UK Government’s Voluntary Pricing, Access, and Growth (VPAG) Scheme is designed to ensure that patients have access to innovative and cost-effective medicines.
The scheme involves pharmaceutical companies voluntarily agreeing to cap the growth of their revenues from NHS sales. In return, these companies benefit from predictable pricing and access to the NHS market.
The scheme aims to balance the need for affordable medicines with the industry’s need for a sustainable business environment that encourages innovation and growth.
The VPAG & Pricing controller manages all aspects of scheme reporting including compliance with scheme rules, the provision of budget and forecast information to UK business and reporting to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).
Support the Market Operations lead with ad hoc audit and commercial analysis and reporting.

Key Accountabilities:
Maintain a detailed and thorough understanding of VPAG to ensure the company is always compliant and act as SME to other colleagues.
Liaise with Business Finance Leads and other relevant cross functional teams to obtain actual and forecast sales and unit data along with other relevant information such as enhanced discount schemes, competitor stock outs, private hospitals, clinical trial sales, export sales, private prescriptions etc, to calculate the actual and forecast VPAG liability.
Produce clear management reporting of the VPAG position and ensure all necessary accounting provisions are booked.
Complete DHSC reporting (based on calendar year) including Quarterly VPAS Payment Sales Report and Annual VPAG Payment Sales Report, which must reconcile to the audited statutory accounts.
Ensure quarterly VPAG payments are made within 1 month of each calendar quarter end.
Complete and submit the unaudited Annual Presentation sales return.
Liaise with auditors and ensure the timely delivery of audit data requirements.
Communicate with the DHSC regarding price changes, managing new product pricing in collaboration with commercial teams/ Health & Value and VPAG information requests.
Respond to all DHSC requests on a timely basis.
Assist the Financial Controller with US GAAP and UK GAAP audits and reporting including analytical reviews of legal entities and other ad hoc activities.

Skills, Qualifications & Experience:
Qualified accountant (or equivalent) with at least 5 years post qualification commercial experience, preferably gained in the pharmaceutical industry.
Demonstrated success of assimilating and interpreting complex documentation.
Experience of working in a complex matrix organisation is an advantage.
Audit experience is an advantage.
Knowledge of SAP and Mosaic.
Proficiency in Power BI: Ability to import, clean, transform, and visualize data from various sources, and create interactive dashboards and reports.
SQL Expertise: Skilled in writing efficient SQL queries for data extraction, transformation, and analysis to support business intelligence and reporting needs.
Advanced Excel and modelling skills.

Tadworth, United Kingdom

Hybrid

20-02-2025

Company Name

Cpl Life Sciences

Job Title

Datacenter Technician

Job Description

Data Center Technician
Rate: Up to £200 a day
12 Month Contract
Onsite
Locations: Hemel Hempstead
- Perform limited maintenance tasks to include: filter changes, HVAC PMs, rack power installs, rack PDU, and rack ATS replacements

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

This engineering operations technician position serves as the on-site maintenance technician and operator for an AWS data centre.

The Data Centre Engineering Operations Technician (EOT) is responsible for operating and maintaining all electrical, mechanical, emergency generator, and fire/life safety equipment within the data centre. The EOT serves as a technical resource to support within its data centres. Data centre equipment that supports mission-critical servers must maintain better than 99.999% uptime. EOT’s are also tasked with driving innovation while reducing operational costs in the facilities.

Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities:
- Operate and maintain mechanical and electrical equipment
- Troubleshooting of facility and rack-level events within internal SLAs
- Perform limited maintenance tasks to include: filter changes, HVAC PMs, rack power installs, rack PDU, and rack ATS replacements
- Provide support to Data Centre Operations technicians
- Perform root cause analysis of equipment failures
- Ensure all safety procedures are adhered to while performing work
- Take daily operational readings of all mechanical and electrical equipment through routine rounds/log taking (temperatures, voltages, currents, etc.)
- Utilise internal CMMS to manage building workflows and spare part inventory
- Supervise contractors who perform servicing or preventive maintenance
- Respond to off hour emergency calls per on call rotation for any one of the region’s sites
- Fully comply with all physical security procedures and policies

If you are interested please apply or send your CV to luke.sandilands@cpl.com

Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom

Hybrid

20-02-2025