Eurofins
Location
Tamworth, Staffordshire | United Kingdom
Job 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.
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.
HOW CAN YOU HELP US?
In a nutshell : Are you interested in leading and managing two units (Work Place Drug Testing and Legal Testing Services) within our Forensics Cluster? Can you help grow our cluster into the recognized market leader whilst driving commercial and operational excellence? Do you have a scientific background and have experience either within the Testing, Inspection and Certification sector or within laboratories? Do you have experience with managing a significant revenue and can read a profit and loss? Are you based within the United Kingdom? Then this role might be one for you!
What team will I be part of? You will be part of the Forensics cluster team based in Tamworth, United Kingdom, reporting to the Managing Director of the Forensics Unit.
Eurofins Forensic Services laboratories are amongst the most advanced analytical facilities in Europe, enabling the company to offer a complete and comprehensive range of independent and innovative forensic testing solutions to police forces, legal and criminal justice organizations throughout the UK and Europe.
As a General Manager You Will:
L ead the Civil Law Cluster consisting of Work Place Drug Testing (WDT) and Legal Testing Services (LTS) in the UK.
Grow the cluster into the recognized market leader whilst driving commercial and operational excellence, including extensive sub-contractor management.
Lead all non lab activities in the cluster with a particular focus on: building customer service provision and streamlining processes, securing market leading customers, and outsourcing of wet lab testing.
In conjunction with E urofins colleagues , manage the wet laboratory testing provision so it is aligned to customer needs and maintains the required accreditation at all times.
Make sure that cross-selling synergies with other Eurofins laboratories in Europe are developed.
Actively lead and deliver the development, implementation and optimal use of a new end to end digital platforms.
Motivate, develop, coach and retain excellent Business Unit Managers and department heads.
Continue to improve the technical and scientific aspects of the business units by ensuring the appropriate development and application of new techniques and business processes.
What can we do for you?
An attractive compensation package and extra-legal benefits (company car, laptop, pension and health insurance).
Exposure & growth: You will be part of an international and multi-cultural organization, and have the opportunity of being in contact with Eurofins leaders to enlarge your knowledge and network.
Are you our kind of extraordinary?
You are a problem-solver with “can-do” attitude and possess an entrepreneurial spirit. You have a commercial awareness and business acumen who are proactive and autonomous. You can provide leadership, training, mentoring to build and retain a winning team. You can proactively lead technical and operational development to deliver business objectives and customer requirements.
Background: You have worked in a people management role within a contract laboratory environment or the TIC industry (Testing, Inspection and Certification sector) for at least 5 years. You have Profit and Loss experience, where you had operations and commercial aspects under your responsibility.
Education: You have a degree or NCEA diploma in a relevant discipline.
Language: English proficiency is a must, and good command in other languages are highly appreciated.
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:
: 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 62,000 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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