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 50,000 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 2020, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 5.4 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Eurofins CDMO is one of the leading CDMOs in Europe providing high-quality, customized drug development solutions for specialty and biopharma clients. Our focus is to support clients on the earliest phases of their development pathway (from API to the clinical packaging).
Its Belgian subsidiary, Eurofins Amatsigroup NV, is based in Ghent, offering a complete drug development package for new drug entities (biological and chemical) up to early clinical phases to third parties to help them in speeding up the development and manufacturing of their drugs.

Eurofins CDMO wishes to enforce its biological purification team with a Downstream Process Manager and is looking for a professional with a strong background in manufacturing (recombinant) proteins for medical applications. Experience in the biotech sector and with the downstream process in development and (GMP) manufacturing of proteins is essential.

We are looking for a person that collaborates with the Eurofins CDMO team in expanding the growth of the company. He/she will report to the Business unit manager of DS Biologicals.

His/her main responsibilities are:

• Establish and lead the downstream group within the Biological Drug Substance Unit with process and operations-based expertise to support delivery (on time and within the budget) of developed purification processes and of clinical batches of purified recombinant proteins.
• Be responsible for the design, planning, operation and monitoring of the downstream group and this for development activities as well as for GMP production.
• Interact with other departments within the company (from business development to other teams involved in the progress of the productions).
• Preparation and revision of downstream purification batch records and reports.
• Lead initiatives to ensure continuous improvement of the tools and technologies that are used for downstream processing in our company.
• Lead initiatives to ensure optimal planning and communication to the appropriate stake-holders and project managers.
• Introduce innovative technologies within the DSP department and follow latest trends for innovative biotech products.
• Mentor junior scientists or associates, providing scientific and technical expertise and guidance on downstream processing.
• Present results at internal and external meetings (scientific and with clients).
• Represent the downstream group at regulatory inspections (during audits).

• A PhD or a Master Degree with scientific orientation (Pharmaceutical sciences, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Bio-engineering, Industrial Engineering) or related discipline with relevant expertise, e.g. downstream processing of recombinant proteins on a microbial and/or mammalian platform.
• Experience in technology transfer, purification process development and transfer to GMP.
• Experience from lab scale to large scale manufacturing.
• Knowledge on process characterization and validation.
• Should have knowledge on cGMP and quality system.
• Ability to proactively address process related issues.
• Excellent organization, flexible and coordination skills.
• Excellent oral communication, reporting and presentation skills.
• Ability to work independently as well as a member of a team in a dynamic environment.
• Skilled in training, coaching, leading people.
• Fluent in English written and spoken. Knowledge of Dutch is an asset.

• Work in a fast growing organization.
• A position with responsibility within a dynamic company.
• Personal development through learning on the job and additional external trainings.
• A market oriented compensation.