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 Professional Scientific Services (PSS) is a global, award-winning insourcing solution. A Eurofins PSS employs and manages full-time analysts, technicians, scientists, and technical support personnel directly at the client facility to provide long term staffing needs while maintaining the same services, expertise, and cGMP compliance available at the Eurofins facility. Eurofins PSS offers excellent career opportunities for people who have a proven track recording in combining excellent technical ability with first class interpersonal and communication skills.

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.

In a nutshell, PSS Business Unit Manager is part of Management Team for PSS Belgium, oversees a business unit within the organization and is responsible for various multifunctional PSS teams. This person will be a key point of contact for the clients from an operational management point of view and a link with Senior Management in Belgium.

What will you be responsible for?

• Managing PSS Teams at client sites with an eye on high productivity, quality, GMP and safety, resolving problems and customer-service standards;
• Building and managing client relationships;
• Taking care of the best possible service by continually reviewing best practice in relation to both commercial and quality issues;
• Engaging with Business Development and Key Account Managers to ensure opportunities with existing clients, and new opportunities, are identified and pursued;
• Training, developing and coaching PSS Teams (both leadership and scientist level);
• Managing team performance and working together with the Talent Acquisition Manager.

Are you our kind of extraordinary?

• Education: Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Business Administration. Bachelor's or Master's degree in Life Sciences, (Bio)Chemistry or related is a big plus.
• Background: Min 3 years of work experience in the (pharmaceutical) industry with the ability to understand and meet customer requirements and at least 3-4 years at managerial level dealing with variety of people management topics. Experience dealing with budgets is a plus.
• Languages: Full professional proficiency in both French and English are a must;
• Other: This position will be covering the French speaking region of Belgium.

What can we offer you?

• A responsible and challenging position within the team;
• Independence and autonomy;
• Specialist training and a range of opportunities for personal and professional development;
• Monday to Friday job with flexible working hours;
• Good salary package and benefits (Company car, Fuel tank card, 12 ADV days, Meal Vouchers of 8 Euros per workday, Eco-Cheques +/-250 Euro, DKV hospitalization insurance, Bonus system, etc.);
• A broad customer portfolio ensuring a lot of diversity in your work.

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 62,000 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.