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’ Corporate Development team drives the execution of the Group’s strategic business and financial ambitions through targeted merger and acquisition activity across all business lines. Inorganic growth is a core pillar of Eurofins’ long-term strategy.

This role offers the opportunity to join a high-performing, deal-driven team in a fast-paced environment, covering the Benelux region and based in Brussels, with direct exposure to strategic decision-making and transaction execution.

As an M&A Associate, you will have the opportunity to drive deals autonomously from origination to closing.

Position & Objectives:

Coordination of M&A Pipeline:

• Market Analysis, Origination and Prospection: you will proactively identify, assess, and engage with potential future Eurofins partners across the Benelux market.
• Confidentiality and Preliminary Data Analysis: you will prepare and manage confidentiality agreements and collect, review, and analyze preliminary information including audited accounts, shareholding structures, and management profiles..
• Target Evaluation and Deal Structure Recommendation: you will assess acquisition targets based on business fundamentals, financial performance, and growth outlook, and recommend appropriate transaction structures.
• Transaction Advisory and Negotiation Support: you will advise on transaction strategy and execution, interface with target companies, shareholders, and advisors, and support business leaders in preparing key negotiation materials such as term sheets, heads of agreement, indicative offers, and exclusivity agreements.
• Due Diligence Coordination: you will lead the coordination of due diligence processes, working closely with internal stakeholders and external advisors (e.g., legal counsel, auditors).
• Negotiation and Documentation Review: you will drive negotiations, participate in meetings, and review and comment on transaction documentation through signing and closing.
• Deal Closing Coordination: you will coordinate all closing activities, including financial settlements and final execution steps.
• Peer Reviews and Support: you will conduct peer reviews and provide support on similar M&A initiatives across other business lines or geographies as needed.

Integration of Acquired Companies:

• Reporting and Communication Setup: you will support the establishment of reporting structures and communication channels between newly acquired companies and Eurofins’ general management.
• Post-Closing Obligations Management: you will monitor and follow up on post-closing obligations such as earn-outs or deferred consideration.
• Shareholder Resolutions and Performance Monitoring: you will prepare shareholder resolutions and track annual accounts and post-acquisition performance.

• Educational Background: Master's degree in Business Administration, Finance, or Engineering from a top university.
• Experience:
  • 4 to 7 years in M&A, Corporate Development, Investment Banking, Private Equity, Transaction Services-or related Services (Big Four), or Consulting.
  • Solid understanding of the M&A process, including NDA, LOI, DD, SPA, PMI, etc.
• Skills:
  • Excellent interpersonal, communication, and team leadership skills.
  • Outstanding technical and conceptual understanding of finance and valuations.
  • Large autonomy
• Language Proficiency: Fluency in Dutch (native speaker level) and English.

This role plays a critical part in Eurofins’ growth strategy and offers exposure to complex, high-impact transactions, with clear opportunities to grow into complex finance positions.

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! The Eurofins network of companies believes 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 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 believes that it is a 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 also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. 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.