Project Manager – Operations Transformation and Key Group Projects

Eurofins; Brussel Hoofdstad; Sur place; EUR 40 000 - 60 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A global life sciences company in Brussels is seeking a Project Manager for Operations Transformation. This role involves managing key projects that enhance laboratory performance and conducting analyses to improve processes. The ideal candidate has 1-3 years of experience, enjoys a fast-paced environment, and possesses strong analytical and interpersonal skills. A scientific or business degree is required, along with proficiency in data analysis tools.

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of experience in business consulting, internal consulting, operational business improvement.
• Excellent oral and written English, additional languages appreciated.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to draw quantitative and qualitative analyses.

Responsabilités

• Manage transformational projects to improve lab performance.
• Conduct cost analyses to identify vulnerabilities.
• Establish project management offices for key initiatives.

Connaissances

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

Data analysis tools knowledge

Project management

Formation

Scientific, engineering or business degree

Outils

Microsoft Power BI

SQL

Excel (advanced)

Description du poste

Project Manager – Operations Transformation and Key Group Projects

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.

The Permanent Improvement Programmes (PIP) acts as the internal management consulting team for the Eurofins network, with the mission of building Eurofins’ processes to structurally achieve operational excellence and margin growth in all Eurofins businesses.

The PIP team is based in our Brussels corporate office and reports to the Chief Operating Officer for Food and Environment Testing. The team implements transformative and strategic projects to improve the performance of Eurofins laboratories and supports operations across the Eurofins network.

The Project Manager – Operations Transformation and Key Group Projects independently owns and manages projects to either develop new methods and processes, or implement them with the Business Leaders in the Eurofins network. They ensure full project and stakeholder management (including top Eurofins management, other support functions such as purchasing, sales and marketing, and operational leaders in the Eurofins network, etc.).

In this role, you will work on developing methodologies and standards in operational and economic performance. You could be involved in anything related to the quantitative analysis of the business and operations.

Some examples of projects you will work on are:

• Executing cost analyses to identify lower margin services, and understand how successful peers in the group manage those services;
• Setting up project management offices for longer-term initiatives such as the global roll-out of a new Key Performance Indicator;
• Understanding the “failure points” of current invoicing processes and working with Eurofins’ national teams to define the best practice and manage the change process towards it;
• Executing productivity benchmarks and guiding the national teams in identifying the highest-potential levers to raise Eurofins’ median and average performance;
• Guiding Business Controllers from the national teams into implementing a standardised management accounting structure.

Your assignment(s) will depend on the priorities set by management, available resources, and skillset, and can therefore evolve over time.

We are looking for a candidate with 1-3 years in a relevant position, who is now ready to level-up their career by joining a functional team in a big international company. Relevant experience includes business consulting, internal consulting, operational business improvement, process engineering, or operations management, etc.

• Education: Scientific, engineering or business degree from a top university; life science and chemistry degrees (e.g. biology, biochemistry, biotechnology), or profiles mixing science and business, are a particular plus, along with an excellent student track record.
• Languages: Excellent oral and written English is mandatory. Other languages are highly appreciated.
• Strong interpersonal skills (e.g. oral and written communication, presentation skills), as this role will interface significantly with operations and experts to carry out our projects.
• Excellent working knowledge of data analysis and visualization tools: Excel (advanced), Access DB, Microsoft Power BI, SQL, python (Pandas, Tensorflow, etc.), etc
• Very strong analytical skills with the ability to draw up quantitative and qualitative analyses from large datasets, and low-quality datasets.
• Ability to define concepts, align them with key stakeholders in different countries, and describe them clearly and concisely. Change management and persuasive skills.
• Be driven and persistent in investigating a topic and in following up on all open leads autonomously.
• Ambitious, while being a team player; invested in the outcomes for the team as well as your own projects.

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! As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the Eurofins network of companies believes in strength and innovation through diversity. 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.