Eurofins Scientific is a leading international life sciences company providing a unique range of analytical testing services across multiple industries to make life and our environment safer, healthier, and more sustainable. From the food you eat to the water you drink and the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories support many of the world’s largest companies in ensuring product safety, ingredient authenticity, and accurate labeling.

As part of its commitment to society and the planet, Eurofins delivers testing services that protect public health while upholding strong corporate responsibility standards. This includes a dedicated focus on environmental sustainability as well as fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion across its global network.

Eurofins BioPharma Product Testing offers complete CMC Testing Services for the Bio/Pharmaceutical industry, including all starting materials, process intermediates, drug substances, drug product, packaging, and manufacturing support through our broad technical expertise in Biochemistry, Molecular & Cell Biology, Virology, Chemistry and Microbiology.

Our local presence ensures personal service backed by a unique global breadth of harmonised capabilities that support all functional areas of bio/pharmaceutical drug development and manufacturing, including method development, microbiology, process validation and quality control.

We are seeking a highly proactive, self‑driven Business Development Manager who will play a key role in driving the continued growth of our business in Switzerland. In this role, you will identify new market opportunities, build strong customer relationships, and position Eurofins as a preferred partner for GMP‑compliant analytical testing services in the fields of Microbiology, Chemical‑Physical Analytics and ​Environmental & Utility Testing.

Responsibilities

• Identify, target, and acquire new customers within the Swiss (Bio)Pharma sector through proactive outreach and event‑driven lead generation
• Drive sales growth by developing new business opportunities and closing deals aligned with strategic objectives
• Implement targeted sales strategies to accelerate market penetration and strengthen regional presence
• Plan and execute sales activities to achieve ambitious revenue goals
• Manage existing accounts, ensuring customer satisfaction, identifying opportunities for upselling and cross‑selling
• Represent the company at conferences, exhibitions, and industry events
• Maintain accurate and up‑to‑date records in key IT systems, including CRM tools and customer databases

• A scientific degree in Microbiology, Biotechnology, Pharmacy, Biology, Chemistry, or a related field
• At least 3 years of experience in customer interaction, ideally with initial exposure to Business Development
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in Microbiology
• Solid knowledge of GMP regulations, essential for performing the role effectively
• Excellent communication, negotiation, organizational, and teamwork skills
• Proficiency in common IT applications, including MS Office and CRM systems
• Excellent spoken and written English skills
• Willingness to travel up to 20%

If we have aroused your interest, we would be delighted if you could send us a personal cover letter, your CV and references.

We look forward to receiving your application!

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/

Please note that as per Eurofins policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters were engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that Eurofins will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.