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.
Eurofins Food Feed and Water Benelux is seeking an experienced IT Director to lead and manage all aspects of IT operations, services, and strategy for our Food Testing division in the Netherlands and Belgium. This role will be pivotal in ensuring the alignment of IT strategies with business objectives, driving digital transformation initiatives, and overseeing the effective management of technology platforms across multiple business units. The ideal candidate would have a strong background in IT leadership, be able to drive change even when facing resistance, collaborate across functionals, and have a proven ability to deliver technology solutions that drive business success. Familiarity with laboratory practices would be a beneficial, as well as exposure to large-scale software migrations.
Key Responsibilities
- Responsibility for 3 Team Leads heading up 3 teams (IT Operations, IT Delivery and IT Infra, total approx. 20 employees)
- Responsible for the following IT topics:
- Operation, maintenance, deployment of LIMS applications (laboratory information and management system equivalent to an ERP)
- International harmonisation of software applications
- Change management driven by harmonisation.
- Creation of concepts for IT projects (feasibility analysis, making a recommendation)
- Operation of commercial software systems (licenses, maintenance contracts)
- Digitalisation (processes and interfaces)
- Requirements and stakeholder management
- IT field service in the BNL region and Service desk
- IT infrastructure projects
- Collaboration and coordination with other IT teams (Group IT applications, IT Security, etc.)
- IT costs: budgeting, controlling and cost optimisation.
- People management:
- Team organisation and structure
- Interfacing between the teams
- Initiating change processes and managing change
- Willingness to travel, both within the Netherlands and Belgium as well as occasionally outside of Benexlux
- Education: A bachelor's or master's degree in information technology, computer science, or a related field.
- Experience:
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in IT management, with at least 3 years in a leadership role overseeing IT operations in a regional or global context.
- Proven record of managing cross-functional teams and delivering IT solutions that align with business strategy.
- Experience with IT infrastructure management, digital transformation, and large-scale IT projects.
- Skills & Competencies:
- Strong leadership and people management skills, with the ability to motivate and develop high-performing teams.
- Communication and influence skills: Persuasive communication and stakeholder management abilities, with the capacity to effectively bridge communication between business and IT, as well as across different IT teams.
- Business management skills (able to manage and control a company with approx. 20 employees)
- Excellent strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities, with a deep understanding of the role of technology in business transformation.
- General IT knowledge to be able to categorise trends and make recommendations, even if, for example, specific experience is still lacking.
- Strong sensitivity for IT security processes and systems
- Hands-on mentality
- Strong project management and organisational skills.
- The role requires proficiency in both English and Dutch.
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!
The Eurofins network of companies believes 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 count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!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 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to ca. 62,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 900 laboratories in 62 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 2023, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6,515 million, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.