AddressEurofins 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 works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate. Eurofins believes it is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies.
In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 62,000 staff across a network of more than 1000 independent companies in over 62 countries and operating more than 900 laboratories. Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services, as one of the leading global emerging players in specialised clinical diagnostics testing. In 2022, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 6.515 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.
Job DescriptionWe are currently seeking an experienced and highly motivated Manager to lead and enhance our Food Testing laboratories in Melbourne. Working with our Food Chemistry Testing & Food Microbiology Testing teams, this role will include day-to-day management of the laboratories and operations to help achieve strategic plans and organisational growth.
Responsibilities for this role will include, but are not limited to:
- Leading the team by hiring, motivating, developing, and retaining excellent managers and employees to establish a reliable and high performing group with a robust succession plan.
- Ensuring continued development, control, implementation and coordination of the quality management system and quality activities of the Business Unit in accordance with the relevant quality policies/procedures.
- Maintaining and constantly improving customer satisfaction through effective management of marketing and sales activities and building strong positive relationships with clients, ensuring interactions are efficient and constructive.
- Driving organic growth of the Business Unit while also achieving/maintaining best industry standards and profitability.
- Delivering operational KPI’s to the agreed Operational Budget annual targets.
- Fostering and driving a commitment to safety as an essential principle of all operations and activities, through incident investigations, safe work practices, worker participation and consultation in the workplace in accordance with the relevant safety policies/procedures.
- Demonstrated experience as a successful people leader, with a focus on safety, quality, production, re-engineering, and cost reduction.
- Energetic, passionate, and strongly business minded, with a history of quality and relevant experience.
- Experience in business development and developing strong and robust relationships with clients.
- Understanding of the relevant Eurofins Business Line, and/or experience in similar environments (e.g. Laboratory Setting, Field work etc.).
- Experience in quality and accreditation processes, will be an advantage.
- Background and/or experience in technical environments (e.g. scientific, engineering, manufacturing) or in a process driven setting, will be an advantage.
- Technical or commerce qualifications and/or university master’s level qualifications, will be an advantage.
All candidate CV's and cover letter's will be reviewed, however please note that we are not always able to respond to every expression of interest submitted.
This opportunity is only open to candidates who are eligible to work in Australia/New Zealand, and already have work rights or an appropriate working visa.
