Senior Project Manager

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 works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate. Eurofins believes it is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies. In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 58,000 staff across a network of more than 900 independent companies in over 54 countries and operating more than 900 laboratories. Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services, as one of the leading global emerging players in specialised clinical diagnostics testing. In 2021, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years. Eurofins is currently looking for new talent to join their driven, highly skilled and diverse team of internal consultants and project managers. **Job Description**: After successfully achieving an ambitious 4 year plan to double revenues to EUR 5 billion by 2020, Eurofins is now on a mission to achieve **Operational Excellence** in all of its businesses. The **Permanent Improvement Programmes** (PIP), reporting to the Chief Operating Officer - Food and Environment, is an instrumental part of this mission as the internal consulting team of the Group based in the **Brussels global headquarters**. Our team defines, governs and implements transformative and strategic projects to ensure harmonisation, standardisation and optimisation of relevant Eurofins laboratories and supporting operations. The Senior Project Manager - Operations Transformation and Key Group Projects independently owns and manages Permanent Improvement Programmes projects that deliver final end-products. He/She ensures full project and stakeholder management (including top Eurofins management, other group supporting functions like purchasing or sales and marketing, operational leaders from Eurofins network, etc.). He/She supports the team to deliver the other projects showing interdependencies with his/her assignment. The Senior Project Manager - Operations Transformation and Key Group Projects supports, takes part in or manages projects to support the delivery of the key objectives of the Internal Consulting team: - Development of methodologies and standards in operational performance, financial transparency, and cost management - Definition, alignment and standardisation of key concepts and processes at Eurofins The actual assignment(s) are depending on priorities set by the group management, available resources and skillsets of participants and can therefore change over time. The internal consulting team is frequently assigned to top priority projects such as during the IT ransomware attack or the setup of the Eurofins COVID response. **Qualifications**: **Experience**: minimum 2 to 5 years in business consulting, internal consulting, or operational business improvement / reengineering roles with project management experience. **Education**: Scientific or business degree from Top University. Excellent student track record. Life Science and Chemistry Scientific degrees** **(e.g. Biology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology)** **or profiles mixing science and business are a plus. **Languages**: Excellent English, oral and written, is a must. Other languages are highly appreciated. **Personal 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. Proven change management and influencing skills. - Ability to define concepts, align them with key stakeholders in different countries and describe them clearly and concisely. - Curious, ambitious and a team player. - Strong problem-solver with "can-do" mentality, able to both pragmatically define solutions and capture and understand all relevant details when necessary. - Solid analytical skills with the ability to draw up quantitative and qualitative analyses from large datasets. **Technical knowledge IT**:MS Office products; Access DB, Power BI, SQL knowledge are a plus. Additional Information The Permanent