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.

In a nutshell: Are you committed to being an inspiring leader? Can you help grow our Contaminants testing business whilst driving commercial and operational excellence? Do you have experience either within the Testing, Inspection and Certification sector or in a food manufacturing or service company? Do you have experience managing significant revenue and large teams? Are you based within the Netherlands? Then this might be the role for you!

What team will I be part of? You will be part of the Food Testing leadership team based in the Netherlands, reporting to the Regional Leader for Food & Feed Testing. 

Eurofins is the world leading food and feed testing laboratory group, deploying a comprehensive range of state-of-the-art analytical techniques in order to support its clients' increasingly stringent quality and safety standards. The Group has built up a global network of food testing laboratories and Competence Centres that perform more than 450 million assays per year to establish the safety, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of food. Eurofins thus offers the broadest portfolio of any food testing lab and makes this unique offer available globally from any of our laboratories using optimised processes, logistics and IT.

As a Managing Director you will: 

Lead one of our biggest Food Testing business units in the Netherlands, which consists of multiple sites and a team of over 150 people. 

Develop a high-quality strategic plan to expand the business and Eurofins' position in the Netherlands market.

Lead and facilitate the sales & marketing activities and become a trusted and reliable partner to customers. 

Drive operational excellence, continuous improvement, productivity and bottom-line results.

Ensure that relationships with all clients are positive, with high levels of customer satisfaction in place.  Attend and lead meetings as needed alongside the Commercial team, with key clients and develop in depth knowledge of customer requirements.

Encourage cross-functional cross-business team work to optimise business opportunities.

Initiate and drive change, setting up action plans with clear-cut distribution of responsibilities.

Improve the technical and scientific aspects of the business units by ensuring the appropriate development and application of new techniques and business processes.   

Hire, motivate, develop and retain excellent Business Unit Managers and department heads.

Are you our kind of extraordinary?

You are skilled in developing and implementing a sales & business strategy in a growth-oriented business. You have solid financial acumen, hands on process improvement experience and the ability to implement changes in a complex organisation. 

Background: You bring a minimum of 3 years of leadership experience, of which at least 2 years have been in a P&L management role. You have demonstrated experience of facilitating growth, operational improvement and motivating teams of 50+ people. 

Education: You have a Bachelors degree or diploma in food science or any other relevant discipline. 

Language: Proficiency in Dutch and English is a must.

Location: You are based in the Netherlands and flexible to travel to Rotterdam and Graauw when needed.  

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.