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Bangalore | India

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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.

Job Description

REPORTING TO: Regional Director (India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia)

REPORTING LOCATION: Bangalore

WORKING LOCATION: Bangalore

NUMBER OF FTEs UNDER RESPONSIBILITY: ~10

SUMMARY OF POSITION AND OBJECTIVES:

The Role:
The role has primary responsibility to work with the Regional Director (India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia) to design, build and operate the IT Strategy and needs of the region. The role demands a constant need to understand and strategize the dynamics needs of the growing business in this region. 

The role would require the candidate to plan and deliver business IT solutions like CRM, DWH, Power BI, LIMS, HRMS and an ERP solution, in line with the Eurofins global guidance. It would require the candidate to liaise with various Group Solutions and ensure the most optimum solutions are made available to the businesses in the region, and also work with the Infra teams on any deliverables or issues related to infrastructure, including integration of acquired organizations.

Responsibilities: 

• Works with the business leaders/business responsible and defines strategies for IT. Contribute to vision discussions and finalize IT roadmap for the region and participate in the decision process of team‘s overall strategic directions.
• Manage business expectations and day-to-day interactions with key stakeholders and sponsors.
• Build and manage the team to deliver required IT solutions (including CRM, DWH and any others) within the approved time and budget.
• Plan and Lead various IT steer-co meetings for the region. This involves preparing detailed IT project(s) plans, progress reports, financial summary, etc.
• Liaise with solutions owners for any issues or additional features needed in the group solutions used by the business in the region
• Liaise with Regional Infrastructure Manager to address any technical issues in the region and also co-ordinate any integration efforts for new businesses.
• Co-located with business and having constant interaction with the businesses and it’s customers. 
• Effective management of IT solutions budget for the region, ability to define, track and manage both capex and opex.
• Create, evolve and manage IT delivery for One IT team
• People Leadership – manage and lead team successfully towards agreed objectives and build within the teams a sense of ownership, self motivation, innovative mindset, focused on results and collaboration.
• Build a culture of high performance. Set performance expectations with team, conduct annual appraisals, track performance and provide feedback.
• Work closely with transversal teams like Group architecture team, Group IT security team, Group solutions team to maximize productivity.
• Talent management – identify required capabilities and skill gaps within team and plan for fulfilling the gaps
• Recruit the people with right attitude, skill, customer centricity and potential for efficient delivery.

Qualifications

Experience:

• 15+ years of experience in IT, with at least 5+ years in IT Management 
• Strong experience in IT Project Management, stakeholders engagement.
• Strong experience of working with enterprise tools like CRM, ERP, LIMS, Power BI and DWH.
• Experience with Microsoft suit of technologies is must
• Experience in managing small to medium (~10 people) delivery teams
• Experience working with business and Infrastructure stakeholders in a fast paced environment

Skills:

• Experience with CRM, ERP, DWH or Power BI reporting systems
• Prior experience of defining IT strategy is good to have
• Knowledge of Azure migration and SQL is a plus
• AGILE & ITIL background is a big plus

Personal Skills:

• Excellent verbal/written communication skills. Fluent in English and the working country language.
• Ability to simplify the complex IT problems and articulate the solutions to business leaders.
• Executive presence and Excellent presentation skills
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and strategic thinking skills.
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational and project management skills, able to adapt quickly, work well under deadlines in a complex changing environment and perform multiple tasks effectively and concurrently.
• Experience in driving discussion with Senior Mgmt. and CxO.
• Ability to think out of the box, keen observer and eye for details.
• Ability to manage relationships with both internal and external customers.
• Ability to work independently and within a collaborative team oriented environment using sound judgment in decision-making.
• Should be a self-motivated, independent, responsible team-player and exhibit exceptional relationship management skills
• Ability to quickly learn new concepts and software if necessary

Additional Information

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: 

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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