Company DescriptionEurofins 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 DescriptionHow you can help usAs an IT Solutions Section Leader & Director, you will overlook multiple IT Programs providing different IT Services to Eurofins. An IT service can be a B2B online platform, a laboratory information management system or the internal observability & monitoring platform for our IT Services. All these are developed inhouse at Eurofins.In your role you will lead >100 IT staff. You must define vision & purpose, manage the P&L, and guide your team members. You need to drive for excellence, speed, efficiency, effectiveness, and innovation!Eurofins has IT in its DNA and more than 95% of our IT Staff are Eurofins employees. This implies, you are not managing suppliers, you are leading Eurofins IT staff. Amongst our IT staff are software engineers, cloud engineers, DevSecOps engineers, product owners, product managers, operations engineers, support engineers and many more.The position of IT Solutions Section Leader and Director, will report into the GSC IT Solutions Director and has responsibility for multiple IT Programs with people located in multiple locations, amongst others India, Poland, Romania, France, Germany, Belgium, Unites States, etc. Key Duties and Responsibilities:Lead multiple global IT programs with responsibility for all program management aspects including budget and controlling, people and performance management, IT strategy and planningClose collaboration with other IT sections & IT programs and teams, to implement new projects, IT initiatives and drive continuous improvement of the IT organisationResponsibility to prepare global decisions on the roadmap of your IT solutionsResponsibility for local talent strategies and employee engagement, promotion of employee focused initiatives and leading company eventsBudget preparation, forecasting, resource planning and cost controlling for IT programs and GSC office3rd party vendor, contract and license management for group solutionsWork with GSC Controlling and national finance teams to manage P&L and financial operations for GSC IrelandAccountable as Business Unit (BU) Manager for BUs under your scope including resources, cost management and reportingResponsible for annual review process and general performance management of employees in program/BU scopeQualificationsMaster degree in computer science, statistics, mathematics or related field.15+ years experience in IT or related fields, with 10+ years in a senior management or leadership roleProven track record starting from engineer, analyst or similar to project manager to IT manager/leaderExperience with budget preparation, forecasting and P&L managementStrong IT management experience, ideally from a large IT organisation serving internal business customersExcellent leadership, communication and collaboration skillsExperience managing large multi-discipline teams across multiple remote locationsBackground in or strong working knowledge of software development processes, tools and methodologiesWorking knowledge of custom application development, cloud technologies and automation The following skills and knowledge would be an advantage:Post-graduate qualification or advanced qualifications in IT leadership or project managementSoftware engineering or development experience in previous rolesExperience working in life sciences or Pharma industriesAdditional InformationWe 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. 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.