About Eurofins

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 47,000 staff across a network of more than 900 independent companies in over 50 countries and operating more than 800 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 2019, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 4.56 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

About Eurofins IT Solutions India Pvt Ltd

Eurofins IT Solutions India Pvt Ltd (A CMMI Level 3 Company) is a 100% full owned subsidiary of Eurofins. This young captive centre located in Bangalore was established in 2012 to be the largest IT Solutions group within Eurofins to cater to all the internal IT business needs. The primary focus of IT Solution group will be to develop the next generation LIMS (Lab Information Management system), Customer portals, Ecommerce solutions, ERP/CRM system & B2B platforms for various Eurofins Laboratories and businesses.

EITS India is a Young, Dynamic and Growing organization with lot of career growth prospects. We strongly believe that ‘Our people are our assets’ and we ensure that all our staff are provided with great work environment, good benefits and challenging Global projects to enable a fulfilling career. We are committed to provide enriching experience to our employees.

Position Title :                     Associate Software Engineer

REPORTING TO:                 Senior Manager

REPORTING LOCATION:   Luxembourg (Luxembourg) or Brussels (Belgium)

WORKING LOCATION:       Bangalore (India)

OVERALL OBJECTIVES:

The Global HR Solutions team delivers capabilities to the Eurofins Group worldwide, and encompasses multiple state-of-the-art platforms in the sector of HR and Recruitment, such as Smartrecruiters (one of the world’s leading platforms for recruitment), and associated integrated applications (Cubiks, relationwise, etc.) SuccessFactors (Learning platform), internal platforms (e.g. recruitment portals, career pages, HR webs…) and third party application connectors (e.g. LinkedIn).

The Associate Software Engineer of the Global HR Solutions team will be responsible for the IT systems within this Eurofins’ group company at global scale, and will report directly to the Head of Global HR Solutions. The selected candidate will be responsible for the delivery of the Global HR Solutions roadmap, including the deployment of maintenance and evolution projects, as well as the support of the existing capabilities. To conduct this task, the selected candidate will liaise with a team of > 45 people including business and IT professionals at a global scale.

Among his/her responsibilities, the selected candidate will contribute to the continuous development and improvement of the Global HR Solutions, support and facilitate the adoption of new processes, solutions, and tools, by the key business stakeholders, and liaise when needed with the global and local HR partners.

This is a great opportunity for growth having the highest IT Responsibility in a fast-growing entity within a successful Global company like Eurofins Group. Eurofins empowers top talented employees to grow within the group widening the scope of responsibilities both in a functional and organizational manner.

MAIN ASSIGNMENTS

Overall Leadership

• Focus on Stakeholder Management and Risk Management with both internal stakeholders (global and local HR partners, other global IT Teams) and external (SmartRecruiters, SuccessFactors, Relationwise) partners;
• Ensure appropriate and timely delivery of the implementation projects;
• Capacity to communicate with the executives involved in the GHRS program, including Steering Committee (sponsored by the Eurofins Group CIO and Eurofins Group Global Head of Communications), the HR leads in each country, as well as the global and local HR Teams;
• Support to the coordination of Eurofins Global HR Solutions IT Practice;
• Support to the design of the strategic roadmap;
• Support Implementation and roll-out of the tools owned by Global HR Solutions.

Technical Areas of Responsibility

• Working with SQL Server and related technologies to allow the creation of and the support of data migrations and transformations;
• Configuration and support of the HR tools
• Support for the integration between Eurofins internal platforms (career sites, DMS and sites, etc…) and HR tools;
• Experience in front-end technologies and platforms, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3;
• Basic experience in transformation technologies such as XML, JSON, CSV and SQL;
• Proficient knowledge of a back-end programming language .NET, JavaScript, JQuery;
• Basic understanding of “session management” in a distributed server environment.

Global Platform Expertise

We at Eurofins do realise there is no professional HR Recruitment / Head Hunting practice within most of the organisations. We do realise as well that even the largest global corporations, have an exceptional degree of manual activities. Still, we believe that a successful company must excel in all aspects, even more in a company like Eurofins, with a yearly growth rate above 30% since many years and doubling size every 4 years.

PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL CRITERIA:

• Assistance to deliver the GHRS platform programs / roadmap
• Provide value as process know-how to the overall satisfaction of users at all levels
• Detailed goals will be agreed within the first three months of employment.

INDIVIDUAL COMPETENCIES:

• Experience in a large and global-scale consulting firm will be considered a plus
• 1-2 years of IT Industry experience

Interpersonal Skills

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, both at business level and technical level (e.g. architects, developers);
• Strong multi-tasking and organizational skills;
• Builds trust with colleagues;
• Results oriented: demonstrate a “can-do” attitude – adaptability, flexibility and resourcefulness. Sets up high personal standards of performance, seeks out new challenges and initiates activities;
• Team player: involves others, shares knowledge and seeks opportunities for cross functional working and collaboration;
• People developer: builds knowledge and expertise in his/her teams, and acts as a role model;
• Flexibility: Adapts to situations and different/multicultural environments, revises plans and decisions in the light of new information and changing circumstances;
• Ability to work under pressure.

Technical Skills

• Working with SQL Server and related technologies to allow the creation of and the support of data migrations and transformations;
• Experience in front-end technologies and platforms, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3;
• Experience in transformation technologies such as XML, JSON, CSV and SQL;
• Good knowledge of a back-end programming language .NET, JavaScript, JQuery;
• Good understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git;
• Understanding of “session management” in a distributed server environment;
• Understanding of data migration, transformation, and scripting;
• Experience in the creation of reports in SSRS / other Microsoft technologies;
• Creating error logging and reporting solutions and delivering to the right stakeholders;
• Proficient expertise in the preparation and delivery of both functional and technical designs and documentation;
• Excellent command of Microsoft solutions (MS Office package, MS Project, MS Visio).

Personal Profile

• Ability and willingness to work in an international environment;
• Eager to learn and continuously develop personal and technical capabilities;
• Very good communication skills in English (concise writing and orally convincing);
• Very good interpersonal relation skills at all levels of the organisation;
• Very good presentation skills;
• Hands on attitude, showing initiative;
• Attention to details;
• Self-Organised with very good time management skills.

Languages requirement

• English (Excellent command required in both oral and written English).

Other

• The position will be based in Bangalore (India)
• The candidate must be willing to travel sporadically to Europe (mainly to the European Union).

• BE Computer Science/MCA or any other Bachelor’s/Master’s degree with the right experience