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.

You will manage and lead a team of IT experts (BAs, software developers, support specialists, subject matter experts) to serve business units in the assigned geographical region. The team leader’s job is to ensure that the provided IT solutions meet the requirements of the business units.

As part of your second scope of responsibilities, you will be an eLIMS NG Project Manager responsible for successful deployment and roll-out of already developed new generation version of our Laboratory Information Management System in the countries of the CEE region.

Responsibilities and duties

Team Leading:

• Ensures a collaborative culture exists within the departments, its (external) development partners and their product teams, promoting team building and ensuring the entire team is engaged.

• Identifies and supports the team with removing any impediments/distractions that interfere with the team's ability to deliver against their commitments.

• Coaches the team in creating the product backlog, sprint backlogs and writing user stories in the most pragmatic way.

• Makes sure the team is not working on too many stories/tasks at once and helping them get into a flow of starting and completing work in a predictable manner.

• Removes all impediments to progress, facilitates meetings and enables people to resolve conflicts.

• Leads or facilitates workshops with business.

• Structurally measures progress and maturity of the teams.

• Works with other Teams to increase effectiveness of agile ways of working in the organization.

• Provides leadership, support, and guidance to Center Team in terms of project management.

• Provides informal feedback on an ongoing basis and formal feedback in the annual performance evaluation process to identify and develop talent.

• Manages the staffing through the appropriate hiring, firing, and disciplinary actions in collaboration with HR.

• Ensures and promotes the development of the area management team/succession planning through coaching, training, and leadership development.

• Reviews analysis of performance including financial and productivity data for area and makes the appropriate changes in strategies, goals, and objectives responding to status and conditions.

• Controls goals achievement of direct reports through set up of appropriate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), regular management and individual meetings. Implement the necessary actions when results are not in line with objectives given.

eLIMS NG Project Management:

• Ensures high availability of the new generation IT Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) running on-premise and in cloud and effectively manage the run cost.

• Manages release of eLIMS-NG application to lab sites across the CEE region.

• Ensures professional and effective communication with Business Unit Managers in the CEE countries.

• Manages appropriate trainings for business representatives and end-users to fully use capabilities of the newly developed solution.

• Ensures that the IT software platforms are stable, reliable, performing and sufficiently scalable for future volumes by working intensively with the key IT Groups and leaders.

• Ensures the IT delivery of the business roadmap aligned with your peer managing the business requirements.

• Promotes and demonstrates core principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility (being an ambassador for the business).

• Ensures compliance with established company and regulatory guidelines and procedures to provide high quality service and outstanding customer care.

Education Background:

• Educational background Bachelor level IT or Engineering.      

Experience:       

• More than 3 years of experience in team management (5 FTE min).

• More than 3 years of experience in mid-size projects management.

• Experience in maximizing delivered value by close cooperation with the business – internal customer-oriented person. 

• Experience in ERP like software implementation in a mid-size company.

• Experience aligning IT with business initiatives and IT initiatives improving cooperation and performance.

• 5+ years of overall IT Experience.

Languages requirement:

• Fluent English is a must.

Personal profile:

• Excellent communication skills (oral and written).

• Ability to participate in several projects in parallel.

• Natural ability to go into details.

• Hands on attitude.

• Self-organised.

• Flexible.

What do we offer?

• A competitive salary package and bonus;

• Medical and life insurance;

• MyBenefit Cafeteria;

• Udemy Business learning platform;

• Extensive on-the-job coaching and training opportunities;

• Challenges within a multi-cultural and cross-regional team as part of the international and fast-growing Eurofins organization;

• A dynamic working environment with a good team spirit where personal development and growth are highly encouraged;

• Possibility for remote working and flexible working hours.

We support your 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