Senior Project Manager – Operations Transformation and Key Group Projects

Company Description

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.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

Job Description

The Permanent Improvement Programmes (PIP) acts as the internal management consulting team for the Eurofins network, with the mission of building Eurofins’ processes to structurally achieve operational excellence and margin growth in all Eurofins businesses.

The PIP team is based in our Brussels corporate office and reports to the Chief Operating Officer for Food and Environment Testing. The team implements transformative and strategic projects to improve the performance of Eurofins laboratories and supports operations across the Eurofins network. This encompasses a wide range of topics, from operational processes and industrial costing to pricing.

The Senior Project Manager – Operations Transformation and Key Group Projects independently owns and manages projects to either develop new methods and processes, or implement them with the Business Leaders in the Eurofins network. They ensure full project and stakeholder management (including top Eurofins management, other support functions such as purchasing, sales and marketing, and operational leaders in the Eurofins network, etc.). Projects may be part of a broader programme or be standalone.

In this role, you will work on developing methodologies and standards in operational and economic performance. You could be involved in anything related to the quantitative analysis of the business and operations.

Some examples of projects you will work on are:

• Executing cost analyses to identify lower margin services, and understand how successful peers in the group manage those services;
• Setting up project management offices for longer-term initiatives such as the global roll-out of a new Key Performance Indicator;
• Understanding the “failure points” of current invoicing processes and working with Eurofins’ national teams to define the best practice and manage the change process towards it;
• Executing productivity benchmarks and guiding the national teams in identifying the highest-potential levers to raise Eurofins’ median and average performance;
• Guiding Business Controllers from the national teams into implementing a standardised management accounting structure.

Your assignment(s) will depend on the priorities set by management, available resources, and skillset, and can therefore evolve over time.

Qualifications

• Work Experience: We are looking for a candidate with 2-5 years in a relevant position, who is now ready to level-up their career by joining a functional team in a big international company. Relevant experience includes business consulting, internal consulting, operational business improvement, process engineering, or operations management, etc. Formal project management experience and/or formal business controlling experience are a strong plus.
• Education: Scientific, engineering or business degree from a top university; life science and chemistry degrees (e.g. biology, biochemistry, biotechnology), or profiles mixing science and business, are a particular plus, along with an excellent student track record.
• Languages: Excellent oral and written English is mandatory. Other languages are highly appreciated.

Relevant skills:

• Strong interpersonal skills (e.g. oral and written communication, presentation skills), as this role will interface significantly with operations and experts to carry out our projects.
• Excellent working knowledge of data analysis and visualization tools: Excel (advanced), Access DB, Microsoft Power BI, SQL, python (Pandas, Tensorflow, etc.), etc
• Very strong analytical skills with the ability to draw up quantitative and qualitative analyses from large datasets, and low-quality datasets.
• Ability to define concepts, align them with key stakeholders in different countries, and describe them clearly and concisely. Change management and persuasive skills.
• Be driven and persistent in investigating a topic and in following up on all open leads autonomously.