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, as well as 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.

With over 61,000 staff across a network of 940 laboratories in 59 countries, Eurofins’ companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods.

As Project Manager Performance & Key Group Initiatives, you will support the Head of Performance Projects by developing cross-functional performance management reports, frameworks & tools, as well as coordinating and implementing strategic performance management projects in Eurofins’ operational business lines. This includes key Group initiatives related to both finance and operations.

This position is crucial to the industrialised roll-out of operational improvement projects and in support of Eurofins’ ambitious growth objectives.

More specifically, you will:

• Lead the implementation of standardised profit centre-based financial reporting:
  • Ensure consistent implementation of profit centre analytical framework in all Business Units
  • Ensure autonomous & consistent profit centre allocation is implemented in all Business Units
  • Act as PMO lead for all initiatives related to profit centre financial reporting
• Project management in transformation projects in operational KPI collection & reporting landscape:
  • Coordinate the development and implementation of any new Operational/Performance Reports
  • Implement new operational reporting system
• Coordinate the roll-out out of reports, projects and initiatives within the Operations Support scope:
  • APCC: Ensure all Business Units autonomously and (almost) automatically implement the Cost Calculation model (APCC) to calculate the cost of tests so that contribution / profit of customers, market segments, methods subgroups can also be calculated;
  • Ensure cost reduction initiatives (lean, 5S, automation, laboratory specialisation, etc.) are initiated each year in all laboratories of the Food & Environment business lines and that they deliver committed-upon savings. Work in close collaboration with the Permanent Improvement Programmes (PIP) team to deploy best practices;
  • Systematically monitor that business plans from acquisition recommendations are achieved by acquired laboratories.
• Systematically benchmark laboratories based on profit centre & area of activity framework:
  • Analyse key financial & operational metrics (TAT, EBIT, Overhead Factor)
  • Provide benchmark results for the optimisation of operator time, instrument time and consumable costs;
  • Identify, develop and roll out cost-reduction initiatives (Lean, 5S, automation, laboratory specialisation, etc.) in all laboratories in the Food & Environment business lines; measure and ensure delivery of committed-upon savings
• Support of yearly operational budget process:
  • Preparation of business line reports summarising key improvement areas
  • Coordination of operational budget process, together with operational reporting team
• M&A and Capex:
  • Support optimisation of CAPEX budgets for instruments / real estate considering reliable instrument utilisation KPIs and footprint strategy
  • Establish instrument utilisation metrics and integrate results to justify capex requests.

Education: Masters’ degree in Business Administration, Finance or Engineering

Experience: At least 3 years of experience in business consulting, internal consulting or a corporate working on strategic projects, ideally with a focus on operational and financial performance in a large matrix organisation.

Personal skills:

• Strong interpersonal skills (e.g. oral and written communication, presentation skills), as this role will interface significantly with operations and experts. We are looking for someone diplomatic but able to stand their ground.
• Excellent analytical skills
• Dynamic, flexible and driven to succeed. Pro-active in approach and a self-motivated quick learner that is able to grasp key business drivers and communicate in a focused manner.
• Curious, ambitious and a team player
• Strong track record of building strong internal and external business relationships.

Hard skills:

Languages: Excellent oral and written English is a must. Other languages are highly appreciated.

Microsoft Office: Excellent Excel (Incl. VBA) & Power point skills

Data Analytics: SQL, PowerBI (Power Query), Alteryx or other data transformation tools