In a nutshell:
As IT Director, you will lead the digital and IT agenda across the regional Argo Testing business line, shaping how technology enables our long-term business growth, operational efficiency, and innovation. This is a high-impact international leadership role that requires a strong business mindset, the ability to influence at the highest levels, and a pragmatic understanding of technology's role in driving value.
This role is pivotal in supporting the Eurofins network's strategic move towards IT centralization. The IT Director will ensure that the Argo Testing division aligns with Group-wide standards, minimizes local development, and fully embraces shared platforms and governance.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategy & business alignment
- Define and communicate the IT vision and roadmap aligned with regional and global business strategy.
- Facilitate an efficient IT landscape to stimulate growth targets and increase profitability.
- Act as a strategic liaison between regional business units and Group IT, ensuring mutual understanding, alignment, and the smooth adoption of centralized solutions.
- Maintain an outward looking approach, proactively scout emerging technologies and assess digital trends to continuously modernize Argo Testing's IT landscape.
- Actively benchmark with other Eurofins business lines to leverage best practices, avoid duplication, and accelerate IT maturity across Argo Testing.
Delivery, Operations & Governance
- Lead the regional IT organization, including delivery, operations, and infrastructure.
- Improve alignment and maturity across local businesses by developing a regional coordination model, ensuring that key roles are embedded in the broader IT strategy and delivery ecosystem.
- Oversee major transformation programs including lab automation, ensuring value realization and stakeholder engagement.
- Govern IT investments, ensuring the portfolio delivers ROI and mitigates risk.
- Own the regional IT budget: define, control, and optimize costs while ensuring value for money and supporting key business priorities.
- Ensure strong collaboration with global IT, Group governance, and external technology partners.
- Ensure that local IT solutions are phased out in favor of standardized Group applications.
- Promote reuse and integration over custom development.
People, Culture & Change
- Foster a culture of joint ownership between IT and the business. Ensure that solutions are fully embedded, adopted, and deliver business value across all levels.
- Champion change management, digital literacy, and innovation across the business.
- Foster a high-performance IT culture through talent development, coaching, and cross-functional leadership.
Performance Evaluation Criteria
- Business Value Realization: Measurable contribution of IT initiatives to revenue growth, cost savings, and operational efficiency.
- Program & Operations Excellence: Percentage of major programs delivered on time/in budget/scope, combined with uptime and SLA performance.
- Strategic Alignment & Innovation: Degree to which the IT roadmap is aligned with business strategy, plus adoption of emerging technologies that modernize the IT landscape.
- Stakeholder & Customer Satisfaction: Satisfaction scores from business leaders, global IT, and external partners on IT's value, responsiveness, and collaboration.
- People & Culture Leadership: Employee engagement, adoption of change initiatives, and success in developing and retaining top IT talent.
Qualifications
Education and experience
- Education: A bachelor's or master's degree in business administration, or a related field.
- Proven experience (10+ years) in IT leadership roles within a non-tech company.
- Solid understanding of enterprise systems (e.g., LIMS, CRM, platforms, cloud), but more importantly, the business value they enable.
- Cross-functional leadership experience, ideally in regulated or process-heavy industries.
- The role requires proficiency in English.
Preferred Skills and Competencies
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- Strategic Thinking: Ability to define long-term vision and translate it into actionable plans.
- Leadership & Influence: Proven experience leading diverse teams and influencing executive stakeholders.
- Business Acumen: Deep understanding of how IT creates business value in a non-tech environment.
- Communication: Excellent communication and storytelling skills across all organizational levels.
- Change Leadership: Experienced in leading business transformation and digital change programs.
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.
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!Find out more in our career 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 35 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 60 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.