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.

Eurofins BioPharma International Business Line is a global, premium-class contract research organisation (CRO) covering the whole chain of drug development including the preclinical and clinical phases all the way to market release with focus on Early Development, Central Laboratory Services, and BioPharma Product Testing.

Within this International Business line, BioPharma Product Testing spans the complete product development cycle by performing analyses at every stage for small and large molecules; drug product analysis and release testing, API impurities analysis, stability studies, method development and validation, packaging testing (protection, sterility), cleaning validation, environmental documentation, sterility testing and hygiene monitoring. The global network of our local subsidiaries in Denmark, France, Germany, UK, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the USA guarantees an industry leading range of methods, high capacity, the highest standards in our harmonized QA system and outstanding performance with low turn around times. 

In a nutshell: Are you a passionate leader with experience in operational excellence within the biopharma or pharmaceutical sector? Do you excel at driving productivity, quality, continuous improvement and managing teams? Are you motivated by the challenge of leading one of biopharma product testing laboratories in Brno? If so, this might be the role for you!

What team will I be part of?

You will be part of the leadership team at BioPharma Product Testing Czech Republic, reporting directly to the Managing Director Brno. You will lead the operations of key departments, ensuring high standards of efficiency, compliance and continuous improvement while managing day-to-day laboratory functions.

As a Business Unit Manager you will:

Lead and develop the BioPharma Product Testing Business Unit in Brno, ensuring efficient daily operations and adherence to regulatory standards.

Drive initiatives around operational excellence, productivity, cost reduction and optimisation, by implementing best in class processes. 

Improve the technical and scientific aspects of the business unit, through the appropriate development and application of new techniques and business processes. 

Develop and monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to ensure that operational goals are achieved and that these goals are communicated to their individual teams. 

Become a trusted and reliable partner to customers, leading and participating in meetings with key clients, developing detailed knowledge of customer requirements and ensuring a high level of customer service. 

Foster a team-oriented environment, encouraging open communication, creativity, and collaboration in problem-solving.

Lead deployment of Eurofins IT solutions in the company (ComLIMS eLIMS EtQ). 

Ensure cross-selling synergies with other Eurofins laboratories across Europe, leveraging expertise and resources.

Maintain compliance with all relevant legal, contractual, and quality standards, ensuring that the lab remains fully accredited in line with industry best practices and that all employees act in accordance with Eurofins' values. 

Are you our kind of extraordinary?

You are a leader with strong people management and operations management skills, capable of driving operational excellence in a fast-paced, regulated environment. You thrive on optimising processes, leading teams, and ensuring the highest standards of service delivery.

Background: You bring at least 5 years of experience in an operations focused role, preferably in the biopharma or pharmaceutical sector. You have successfully led continuous improvement projects and managed budgets, showing a proven ability to increase productivity and profitability. You have an understanding of the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industry working under GMP/ GLP. 

Education:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant scientific field (natural sciences, pharmacy, biology, biotechnology, etc)

Skills:

• Very good people management skills with the ability to manage, motivate, and develop teams. 
• Very good scientific and organisational skills with a focus on process optimisation and operational efficiency.
• Knowledge of the drug development process and the role of contract research organizations in preclinical research.
• Knowledge in GMP and GLP regulations.
• Very good communication skills (oral and written), with attention to detail and the ability to work closely with cross-functional teams and external stakeholders.
• Confident in using IT systems and applications (MS Office, Excel, PowerPoint, CRM, etc)

Language: Proficiency in Czech and English is a must.

Location: Brno. You are happy to be based on site during the week. 

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 ca. 62,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 900 laboratories in 62 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 2023, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6,515 million, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.