Business Analyst

Eurofins; Nantes; On-site; EUR 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Eurofins is seeking a Business Analyst to join the eLIMS-NG program, coordinating between business stakeholders and delivery teams to capture and translate requirements into practical solutions in global laboratory operations.

You will define business processes, write BRD/Use cases, ensure alignment with IT, and drive functional design with a focus on performance and scalability in life sciences environments.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Scientific, IT or Engineering with Agile BA/PO experience (3–5 years)
• Strong skills in building business process models
• Excellent facilitation and listening skills
• Ability to write functional documentation and manage time effectively
• Excellent English language skills and teamwork abilities
• Autonomous and well-organized with strong summarization abilities

Responsibilities

• Serve as intermediary between business stakeholders and Product Delivery team.
• Drive and challenge business stakeholders on implementation plans.
• Contribute to the product vision and align BR with roadmap.
• Elicit and define Business Requirements and boundaries.
• Describe non-functional requirements linked to performance and scalability.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and Functional Analysts to ensure user requirements meet business needs.

Skills

Business process modeling

Facilitation

Cross-functional collaboration

Functional documentation

Time management

English language

Teamwork

Autonomy

Education

Master's degree in Scientific, IT or Engineering

Tools

LIMS systems

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.

Job Description

As Business Analyst you will work among the program eLIMS-NG, which is a suite of LIMS integrated applications supporting testing business in our laboratories worldwide. Our teams and businesses are spread over different geographical areas and hence are multi-cultural. We strive to standardize business processes across these locations by assessing and analysing their business needs. BAs are in the center of this effort to understand the lab processes, derive well-defined Business Requirements and lead them to delivery.

Main missions of the Business Analyst:

• Serves as the intermediary between the business stakeholders and the Product Delivery team, thus proactively communicates and collaborates with both sides.
• Drives and challenges business representatives (Business Process Expert) on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans.
• Contributes to the vision of eLIMS-NG as a Product, and aims at business satisfaction
• Is responsible for identifying new Business Requirements (coming directly from business stakeholders, KGDs, BPDs, Problems raised from Production, BRAB, internal assessment, etc.)
• As Business Process Owner:
  • Is responsible for the evolution of Business Processes, described in Business Process Documents, in alignment with business and IT stakeholders. Identify areas of improvement.
  • Identifies Business Requirements derived from Business Processes.
  • Assesses the priority of underlying Business Requirements and contributes to their incorporation into the Product Roadmap.
• Is responsible for the elicitation of the Business Requirement and proper definition of its perimeter.
• Captures and describes non-functional requirements related to a Business Process (linked to performance, scalability, GUI aspects, …)
• Is knowledgeable about business Use Cases applicable to a Business Requirement.
• Calls for BPD (Business Process Document) and/or KGD (Key Group Document) updates when a requirement is not supported by already defined underlying concepts and processes.
• Conducts the approval of Business Requirement with business stakeholders and/or Business Requirement Advisory Board (BRAB).
• Aligns with Functional Architecture team to enable a functional design of the BR.
• Splits the Business Requirement into detailed User Requirements.
• Ensures with business stakeholders that Business Requirement breakdown represent a correct applicative answer to the need.
• Collaborates very closely with Product Delivery team (Product Owners and/or Functional Analysts) to ensure User Requirements are clear, understood and delivered in an appropriate way.
• Is responsible for ensuring that User Requirements delivered by Product Delivery team fit the actual business need.

Qualifications

Ideally you should have a master’s degree in Scientific, IT or an Engineering Discipline, with proven track record as an Agile Business Analyst or Product Owner (3-5 years).

You should have:

• Strong demonstrable skills in building business process models
• Strong facilitation and listening skills, with results-oriented approach
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional and multi-cultural teams
• Ability to write functional documentation where required
• Efficient time management and high-quality attitude
• Very good English language skills spelling/writing
• Very good team and communication skills
• Personal qualities: autonomous, ability to summarize, organized, pedagogue

In addition, experience in life science domain and/or LIMS systems will be a plus. A hands-on experience of working in a lab is highly valuable.

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.

Weembracediversity!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. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more on our Careers 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 believes that it is a 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 also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 39 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to ca. 65,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 950 laboratories in over 1,000 companies across 59 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.