Business Unit Manager Eurofins Microbiology Laboratories - Eurofins

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.

The scope of this job is to manage multiple groups within Eurofins US Food that conduct multi-disciplined assays to generate results, solve problems and interpret data of a scientific nature. The responsibility of the role is to meet operational objectives and drive growth within the cost center(s) reporting directly to the role. Additional responsibility is to drive growth across Eurofins US Food and align resources to strategic needs. All activities required of position are conducted in compliance and support of ISO/IEC 17025:2005.

Entrepreneurial in spirit, this person leans toward opportunity. This candidate will build a positive work environment that drives teamwork and collaboration to deliver exceptional client experiences. The candidate should be a proactive, confident self-starter who thrives in competitive situations.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates and promotes the company vision
• Regular attendance and punctuality
• Applies GMP/GLP in all areas of responsibility, as appropriate.
• Support compliance of ISO/IEC 17025:2005
• May be required to assume responsibilities of Site Operations in the absence of the Site Operations Head
• Assists with performance evaluations, staffing decisions and other supervisory activities for the assigned functional groups
• Reviews and approves work performed in Eurofins Food Integrity & Innovation for scientific validity and compliance with Eurofins SOPs
• Complete understanding of Eurofins SOPs as they apply to food testing services
• Provides technical guidance to the employees of Eurofins Food Integrity & Innovation
• Provides management direction to designated groups with frequent site-wide leadership
• Assists in the planning and managing of business development and marketing activities for section to form client/company partnerships. Foresees and promotes interdisciplinary applications of research expertise
• Trains and mentors staff, supervisors, and other managers within Eurofins Food Integrity & Innovation
• Works with the Eurofins Food Integrity & Innovation commercial and Technical Development teams to expand Eurofins Food Integrity & Innovation to new clients and to develop new services
• Maintains client contacts and establishes new contacts for specific service or market segments.
• Works with clients to design method development projects, method validations and testing programs that will meet client requirements
• Prepares protocols, reports, and other documents associated with Eurofins Food Integrity & Innovation
• Interprets and implements policies affecting staff, fiscal and technical management for the department
• Discusses study problems or scope changes with appropriate personnel and suggests solutions and actions to solve problems. Manages the impact on time and cost
• Assesses feasibility/monitors/evaluates/reviews the scientific and financial performance of studies and projects
• Contributes to long-range planning and technical policies of the department
• Works with Human Resources to implement appropriate affirmative action, salary administration and communication programs within the department
• Conducts and hosts client visits to Eurofins Food Integrity & Innovation
• May have the additional responsibility of managing quality systems
• Conducts all activities in a safe and efficient manner
• Performs other duties as assigned

To perform this job successfully, the individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements below are representative of the knowledge, skill or ability required. 

• Experience in the techniques of food, supplement, and ingredient analysis and/or microbiology.
• Involvement with industry standards, such as AOAC, USP, ISO 17025, etc.
• Experience with GLPs and cGMPs (for Dietary Supplements or Medicated Feeds)
• Extensive knowledge of related regulations in a contract laboratory environment
• Skilled in performing presentations, leading meetings, time management, and planning, budgeting and negotiation.
• Proven experience with customers and driving growth for a business
• Demonstrated ability for logical thinking, vision, and creativity necessary to function effectively with little structure or supervision.
• Ability to learn new tasks
• Ability to think critically and solve problems quickly and efficiently
• Ability to develop and maintain a positive working environment
• BS degree
• 10+ years of experience. Experience may be substituted for education.
• 5+ years management experience or supervising teams

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.

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