Senior Infrastructure Project Manager

Company Description

Why are we here?

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

In a nutshell

As an Senior Infrastructure Project Manager, you will lead strategic IT Infrastructure projects; including a major IT Infrastructure transition and transformation across Food, Feed & Agro Testing Europe businesses.

Where will you be based and what business will you support?

Based in Katowice- Poland, you will be joining an international team: the IT Infrastructure Support Team for Eurofins Food, Feed & Agro Testing Europe businesses.

How can you help us? 

As a Senior Infrastructure Project Manager, you will manage, monitor, and deliver multiple interrelated IT Infrastructure Transformation / Integration / Segregation projects throughout Food Feed and Agro testing businesses across Europe.

These projects will be aimed to perform installations, configuration and migrations of enterprise-level IT infrastructure systems, components, and related software. This may include Windows Server 2012 / 2016 / 2019 (standard or enterprise level), Linux, VMWare, virtual & physical servers, cloud solutions (Azure, Amazon), Active Directory, Office 365, Exchange, storage, network, firewalls, load balancers as well as end user technologies, SDWAN, Wi-Fi, security, monitoring and management software and components.

You will:

• Define scope, provide estimates, plan the budget, allocate resources, own and govern the communication, ensuring high level of internal cooperation;
• Proactively identify project delivery risks and issues. Establish mitigation mechanisms and effectively communicate and escalate to ensure progress; 
• Own schedule and deliver projects as per the scope, on time and to the budget without compromising high quality deliverables, in a highly interdependent ecosystem with multiple stakeholders; 
• Establish delivery monitoring controls and governance mechanisms; 
• Lead, guide, inspire, motivate, and direct multiple cross organizational teams and suppliers to deliver products ensuring a return on investment; 
• Prepare and present periodic decision-making materials for senior executive management; 
• Ensure all abovementioned activities are executed in line with agreed policies, best practices, and standards.

Qualifications

Are you our kind of extraordinary?

You have:

• A proven track record of managing complex IT Infrastructure integration, post-acquisition, transition, or carve-out projects, preferably in an international organization; 
• Proven analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills; 
• Commanding project leadership and follow-through with delivery team resources; 
• Strong customer focused, team-oriented communication skills with emphasis on building lasting, trusted partnerships through written and verbal communications, presentations to management; 
• Deep project management practice experience & discipline with adherence to process in an agile/rapid development methodology; 
• Sound understanding of IT Quality Management Systems and/or Agile Frameworks; 
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Project and/or other project management tools; 
• The ability to work in an amorphous environment delivering results by influencing the assets outside the hierarchy setup; 
• Successful experience delivering results from international and geographically disparate teams, including both local and remote resources and contending for heavily utilized centralized resources; 
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with a track record of working directly with senior executive levels; 
• Excellent written and verbal skills in English; 
• Willingness to travel and work frequently throughout Europe.  

What else should I know? 

• Additional language skills in French are a big plus.

Additional Information

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