International Commercial Controller

<h3>Company Description</h3><p>Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.</p><p>The Eurofins network of companies is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.</p><p>In over 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 62,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 900 laboratories in 61 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.</p><p>In 2022, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.</p><p> </p><p>Gold Standard Diagnostics is an International Business Line (IBL) within the Eurofins Network focused on providing fast, reliable, and easy to use diagnostic test kits and instruments in bio-analytical testing for the food, feed, environmental, biopharma, and clinical industries. The in-house R&amp;D teams have expertise in developing a wide range of innovative methods and applications to meet the testing needs of both research and industry. The IBL comprises of more than 15 entities worldwide, mostly in Europe and North America.</p><h3>Job Description</h3><p>The International Commercial Controller provides business partnership to the management and sales teams and plays a key role in the continuous development of tools and deliverables including reporting and planning process to drive commercial performance (sales scope worldwide greater than €100 million).</p><p>Your main tasks will be to:</p><ul><li>Drive and support the continuous development and improvement of our product/customer masterdata, to ensure efficiency, data quality and compatibility with IT/ERP projects.</li><li>Manage monthly global sales reports and help the sales teams understand and improve the worldwide commercial performance, identify trends and performance-drivers, analyse variances against the past and the plan, compute and report volume/price analysis on a quarterly basis.</li><li>Work closely with the sales teams and directors to identify the relevant business’ KPIs and how to track them; coordinate, control, and follow-up on price changes; co-develop pricing and margin approaches and tools.</li><li>Co-design and implement the sales planning process to embed volume and price assumptions into budget assumptions, ensuring that there is a clear storyline for the IBL and finding the right balance between detail/precision and efficiency.</li><li>Support the IBL CFO on ad-hoc financial topics and projects.</li><li>Provide lean and remote business partnering support to certain local entities.</li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><ul><li>Master’s degree in Business Administration or Finance.</li><li>Approximately 5 years of professional experience in operational finance/ business analyst roles with an increasing level and scope of responsibilities.</li><li>Strong project and change manager, with a natural drive to challenge the status quo, and the ability to initiate and lead change with sustainable results.</li><li>Good interpersonal, communication and collaboration skills.</li><li>Ability to manage and prioritise workload to ensure appropriate controls while driving for-ward strategic initiatives.</li><li>Fluent in English (other languages are a plus).</li><li>Advanced use of Excel and data management (queries, complex formulas, data models) and eager to continuously learn more ; Access and PowerBI are nice to have.</li></ul><p><strong>PERSONAL QUALITIES</strong></p><ul><li>Pragmatic with a can-do attitude.</li><li>Service oriented, while challenging the Leaders.</li><li>Strategic thinker and a “doer”.</li><li>Flexible, able to accept and drive changes and open to new ideas.</li><li>Able to embrace international environments.</li><li>Able to work independently and is confident intaking initiative.</li><li>Results driven and has a strong