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.

An exciting new opportunity has arisen for a Receptionist role to be the front of house for the Brussels facility, meeting and greeting all staff and visitors to site and providing administrative support for the Facilities Management team.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Provide a warm, courteous and prompt welcome on arrival for all visitors
• Provide site inductions for visitors 
• Handle all incoming telephone calls / enquiries promptly giving a warm, courteous welcome
• Support the booking of meeting rooms, in advance and on the day.
• Provide administrative support for the Facilities Management team
• Check various documents such as bills and Purchase Orders
• Manage the lunch tickets and bookings
• Order stationery and business cards

• Experience of working within a reception role is desirable
• Ability to build relations with key staff members
• It is essential that the post holder can manage workload under changing priorities
• Clear communication skills (written and verbal) enabling communication at all levels including the ability to escalate matters clearly and concisely
• High levels of personal integrity and professionalism, able to gain trust of all clients/stakeholders
• Planning and organisation skills
• High levels of concentration, accuracy and reliability
• IT literacy and knowledge of MS Office applications

Person Specific

• Excellent administration skills
• Excellent communication
• Innovation and problem solving skills
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to interact with all stakeholders and colleagues at all levels
• Ability to work independently whilst responsive to direction when necessary
• Proactive and enthusiastic attitude and demonstrable commitment
• Excellent organisational skills
• Flexible and adaptable
• Attention to detail
• Delivery of projects and critical work to agreed timescales
• Willingness to undertake training

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.