Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries. Eurofins is by your side every day, from the food you eat to the medicines you rely on. We work with the biggest companies in the world, testing their products and ingredients for safety, authenticity, and accuracy. 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.

In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 61,000 staff across a network of more than 940 independent companies in over 59 countries, operating more than 940 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.

The Eurofins Discovery team was built by bringing together the market-leading discovery expertise of Panlabs (acquired in 2012 from Ricerca), Cerep (acquired in 2013), EMD Millipore's Discovery & Development Solutions business (acquired from Merck KGaA in 2014), Villapharma Research (acquired in 2017), DiscoverX (acquired 2017), Selcia Drug Discovery (acquired 2018), Beacon Discovery (acquired 2021). With over 600 people in seven operational sites worldwide: St. Charles, MO (USA), Fremont, CA (USA), San Diego, CA (USA), Essex (UK), Celle Lévescault (France), Taipei (Taiwan), and Murcia (Spain) our global team offers the high quality, reliable solutions and support our clients depend on to advance their drug discovery programs. Combining our broad, high quality, industry leading drug discovery products & services portfolios together enables us to support our global clients with one of the industry’s largest and broadest portfolios.

Le site de Celle l'Evescault regroupe 2 entités au sein de la business line internationale Eurofins Discovery au service de la découverte du médicament :

• Eurofins-Cerep, spécialiste de la pharmacologie in vitro, offre des services  qui permettent de réduire les coûts de la recherche des médicaments en identifiant précocement les médicaments les plus prometteurs tout en éliminant les composés susceptibles d’échouer en développement.
• Eurofins DiscoverX Products France (EDPF) dont l'activité est la production de certains réactifs stratégiques comme les protéines purifiées utilisées pour les tests enzymatiques (kinases et autres enzymes).

REPORTING TO : France business line Leader/Senior Director of IT and Informatics

SCOPE : 3 Discovery sites in Europe (Villapharma SP, EID UK, Eurofins Cerep FR)

OVERALL OBJECTIVES :

• Partner with the business in a true “IT as a Service” environment to provide efficient, resilient, best-in-class, cost-efficient IT services to all business units within the region of responsibility;
• Coordinates IT and process optimization streamlining projects that brings the business units part of the Drug Discovery business line up to the Eurofins Group standards in terms of quality of services, productivity, efficiency, turn around time and automation.
• Drive development and deployment projects aiming at modernizing the IT Solutions & infrastructure of the Drug Discovery Business Line.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES :

Responsibilities include, in the scope of a regional context, but are not limited to the following :

• Engage with the key stakeholders to define, put in place, govern an IT landscape that leverages economies of scale, while homogenizing appropriate IT solutions for the Drug Discovery Eurofins Legal Entities;
• Get the Drug Discovery business processes harmonized and agreed by Business Leaders;
• Strive to improve productivity, TAT and profitability in the Drug Discovery Business Line with the implementation of IT services;
• In conjuction with key stakeholders, define the IT strategy, priorities and roadmap;
• Implement a state of the art « IT as a Service » model for IT Services;
• Act as the « Managed IT Service Provider » towards the internal IT customers;
• Build a network and foster productive relationships with key business leaders 
• Define, monitor and reports on IT service quality, as well as customer satisfaction against agreed KPIs and Service Level Agreement (SLA) performance indicators 
• In agreement with local business leaders, build and manage the IT team(s), potentially distribributed over multiple countries
• Cooperate with multidiscplinary regional and corporate teams to ensure adherance with company standards and policies, ensuring consistency and compliance, fostering collaboration, promoting synergies and share good practices/methodologies across the different groups within the organization 
• Manage (directly and/or indirectly) team of managers, architects, technical lead(s), business analysts, developers, testers, build & deployment engineers, support engineers, etc.
• Identify areas where value can be added by streamline processes and implement innovations such as software automation, business process automation, implementation of new tools (i.e. collaboration tools), etc.
• Establish framework(s) to monitor, measure, and report ongoing programs/projects and day-to-day activities, identify risks and dependencies proactively, and drive continuous improvement based on the specific metrics
• Have the ability to not only see the overall vision and strategy but also the ability to get into details of the deliverables of each team to provide guidance, unblock them, and help them be successful
• Experience managing multi-discipline functional and technical teams, and defines project scope and objectives. Develops detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports
• Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet productivity, quality and customer goals
• Attracts, develops, and retains highly talented staff, conducts talent management and succession planning
• Prepare and ensure adherence to the program budget
• Prepare and present program and project reports to senior management / steering committee as required

Educational Background:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Applications, or a related field / alternatively demonstrated work experience.

Work Experience

• At least 15 years professional experience in overall IT industry in IT applications/software design, development, deployment, and support
• At least 8 years of experience in IT management positions
• Experience managing international customers/projects
• Experience with program management including full portfolio of IT disciplines like agile development, manual/automation testing, release management, infrastructure management, information security, production support

Technical Skills

• High level of English communication skills (concise writing and orally convincing)  
• Knowledge of using Excel for building metrics/reports
• Knowledge of managing applications on AWS/Azure cloud
• Familiarity with technologies/architectures such .Net, Java, Rest, Mongo, SQL Server, Oracle, Apex, Docker, xUnit, Angular, Javascript, SOAP, Git, AWS, Windows, Linux, SharePoint, Azure DevOps/TFS
• Experience with change management and membership in Change Advisory Board (CAB) is a nice to have
• Knowledge of business intelligence tools for management reporting is a nice to have
• Knowledge of these will be a plus:
  • SAFe experience
  • Knowledge of GAMP 5
  • Knowledge of GxP
• Certification in these will be a plus :
  • Certified Scrum Master
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner
  • COBIT 5
  • ITIL;
  • ISO 27001

Personal Qualities

• Is able to set vision and drive the team towards that vision
• Well organized and focused on methodology
• High tolerance to ambuigity
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to understand the big picture and be detail oriented as situation demands
• High level of comprehension and articulation skills
• Eager to learn and continuously develop personal and technical capabilities
• Good orator
• Is able to positively influence the team
• Is able to make tough decisions, resolve conflicts
• Is able to take important decisions independently

Is able to lead by example, a person that the team looks up to.

Working location : Celle-Levescault, France

Travel :

• Travels to Eurofins facilities located in and outside the region is required up to aprox. 15% of the working time

PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL CRITERIA :

Eurofins has a strong focus on performance management. This includes a prior definition of SMART objectives with frequent calibrations, half-yearly reviews, and annual reviews.

Permanent contract : autonomus status

starting date : March 1st 2023

Package : following experiences