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 laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

The Senior Security and Risk Analyst has a high-level view over the technical infrastructure of the region and each laboratory in scope, advises on security improvements, and ensures that the relevant security risks are known and processed adequately.

This role is part of the Regional IT Security Office for multiple European businesses of the Eurofins Group (Agroscience, BioPharma, Technologies, Consumer Product Testing Europe).

At regional level:

· Ensure that security is considered within the regional architecture, with a “security by design” approach based on Group standards. Review the configuration to ensure it aligns with standards.

· Review and approve complex changes to the IT infrastructure.

· Embed security within each IT process.

· Design and run “security checkpoints” to review security before an application is deployed, or before a new laboratory is integrated.

· Design adequate Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity procedures when needed.

At laboratory level:

· Work with businesses and local IT teams to create and manage a security plan for each laboratory independently, when needed.

· Adapt policies, procedures, guidelines and/or standards and their implementation to the needs and capabilities of each laboratory, and to regulations applying to each.

· Work with newly acquired laboratories to improve their security posture based on our list of mandatory security improvements.

· Support laboratories during third party audits.

· At ease with managing multiple priorities, ambiguity and a rapidly moving business environment; quick learner and adaptable.

· Strong Emotional Intelligence with demonstrated leadership in a large organization involving multiple stakeholders.

· Demonstrated ability to work with diverse people. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills, and the ability to communicate information security and risk-related concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.

· Strong leadership abilities, with the capability to guide IT operations personnel, and work with minimal supervision.

· Experience in establishing cyber security and risk metrics for reporting.

· Good understanding of IT technology to ensure the achievement of business outcomes where the business process is dependent on technology.

· Experience working with legal, audit, operations and compliance staff.

· Experience developing and maintaining policies, procedures, standards and guidelines.

· Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Certification, Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Certification, and/or Project Management certifications preferred.

· Experience with common information security management frameworks, such as International Standards Organization (ISO) 2700x, the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) the European Union Privacy Directives preferred.

· Fluent English mandatory, knowledge of French preferred.

· Master’s degree from an accredited institution, with degree preferred in Computer Science or Information technology systems security or related field and 5+ years of relevant experience preferred although atypical profiles are welcome to apply.

We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us!  We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more in our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/

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 laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 61,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 900 laboratories in 61 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2022, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.