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.

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 an IT Project Manager for Eurofins Food and Water Testing UK you will have overall responsibility for project managing incremental delivery of suite of IT applications, ensuring a robust service is provided to our UK and Ireland Laboratories and customers. The role is in Wolverhampton with some travel to sites across the UK and Ireland. 

Your main duties will be ensuring that the UK and Ireland Food & Water Testing businesses are supported through in-house LIMS and suite of Business Applications. You will be functionally driving the Software Development and LIMS Support functions of the business ensuring that the eLIMS systems are rolled out and operating to sufficiently support the business.

• Formulate project plans and governance structures, identifying cross-functional stakeholders aligned with Eurofins UK/Ireland Food & Water Testing and Group business strategies.
• Strengthen the adoption of the Agile Scrum model within the Food & Water Testing IT team, fostering a culture of agility throughout the team.
• Engage with key stakeholders, including internal teams, clients, and external partners to gather requirements and ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Oversee the on-going Change Management process for eLIMS FGS, ELDM, overall Eurofins suite of applications, other internal solutions.
• Oversee the management of third-party suppliers engaged to run the Third-Party systems for non-integrated labs system on behalf of Eurofins
• Assist in second and third level support for LIMS, ComLIMS and EOL and other LIMS related applications.
• Understand the business needs and then lead the team to scope, design, develop, test and implement B2B applications to add value and provide solutions to our customers.
• Support as necessary new laboratory acquisition and integration activity.
• To operate in line with Eurofins Quality systems with specific reference to retailer standards, reporting, contract review, complaints, and non-conformances.
• Provide data analysis and reporting service to General Managers and laboratory management.
• Oversee, monitor, and report on multiple Agile Scrum projects, presenting key performance indicators (KPIs) for evaluation.
• Timely execution of projects and reporting to the steering committee (steerco).
• Develop detailed project plans delineating tasks, timelines, and resource requirements to ensure effective project management and good communication to key stakeholders.
• Manage the execution of IT projects related to food testing, ensuring they are completed on time, within scope, and within budget.
• Provide regular project updates and ensure effective communication to manage expectations.
• Establish and enforce quality assurance processes for IT solutions supporting food testing activities.
• Implement testing methodologies to validate the accuracy and reliability of software systems.
• Identify potential risks related to IT projects and implement strategies to mitigate them.
• Proactively address issues to prevent delays or disruptions in food testing operations.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement within IT systems and workflows.
• Implement continuous improvement initiatives to enhance the effectiveness of IT processes and existing business systems supporting food & water testing in collaboration with the key users.
• Lead and motivate cross-functional IT teams, fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to team members.

Qualifications

• Experience of leading an IT scrum team, rolling out & coaching teams on agile scrum principles and project managing multiple inter-dependant initiatives
• Knowledge of LIMS systems / Web Development would be an advantage.
• Confident and engaging communication skills suitable for both internal business and with clients
• Understanding of new and emerging new IT delivery methodologies, testing framework, IT technologies and ability to identify ways of leveraging them.
• Strong presentation skills including ability to present solutions to key business stakeholders.
• Proven track record of process analysis, documentation leading to creation and deployment of successful value adding software solutions.
• Creative with the ability to come up with solutions and ideas for new business processes or products or to enhance existing offer.
• Proven track record of driving success and meeting targets and deadlines through agile scrum principles.
• A highly organised individual with an analytic skill set.
• A forward-thinking and problem-solving mindset and approach to logistics.
• A demonstrable track record of achieving business objectives through process and people.

Additional Information

Benefits

At Eurofins we are growing, innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognise our colleagues special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.

As a Eurofins employee you will benefit from:

• Life Assurance (4 times annual salary)
• Holiday Purchase Scheme
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Pay Scheme 
• Company Pension Plan
• Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential support.
• Free car parking
• Worldwide career opportunities
• Everyone who joins our team also gets access to Perkbox, allowing you to save money all year round. Whether its supermarket savings or days out, the daily coffee or a summer holiday – there’s something to suit everyone’s lifestyle.

What Happens Next
Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it's incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit you'll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and it's requirements, this will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths. 
 
Your data 
As part of any recruitment process, the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.
 
Closing Date
We reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore we would urge candidates to submit an application as early as possible.
 
Due to the high volume of applications we receive please be aware that if you do not receive a response within 4 weeks of the vacancy expiry date unfortunately, on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful. 

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: https://careers.eurofins.com/