Manager, Project Management

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

Position Title: Manager, Project Management

Location: Eurofins Central Laboratory 

Reports to: Director, Project Management

Purpose of the Job and Expected Outcome: 

Manages a single team of individual project management team members to achieve successful project delivery, mentoring and guiding team to achieve their client study deliverables and other departmental goals. This position will involve extensive mentoring and professional development of staff and focuses on providing superior performance in Central Laboratory project delivery.

Key Accountabilities: 

• Manage assigned staff and day-to-day activities in accordance with organizational policies and applicable regulations
• Participate in the development and implementation of training programs to enhance organizational knowledge and performance across the scope
• Ensure that staff understand and adhere to Good Clinical Practices
• Foster a unified culture and facilitate collaboration, cooperation, sharing of information and teamwork
• Manage team to ensure all study activities are delivered on time and on spec, overseeing corrective actions as applicable to ensure successful delivery
• Act as project management process owner for applicable areas including but not limited to recruitment, staffing, SOPs, and process improvements, as applicable
• Responsible for budget planning, monitoring and control for employees within scope
• Ensure accurate, timely, and efficient study execution according to clinical protocol and SOPs
• Ensure final approval of sponsor specifications at all study phases, assessing risk against organizational SOPs
• Lead pro-active and timely project communication to promote best in class sponsor satisfaction
• Serve as the first line of customer escalation, making sound judgement calls in a dynamic environment to drive project success
• Maintain complete financial management of studies and team within scope
• Manage study files within scope in accordance with organizational standards, ensuring accuracy and comprehensive detail
• Play an active role in the enhancement of Project Management systems and processes to ensure global development and alignment
• Identify opportunities for service enhancement and development
• Develop tracking tools and processes for benchmarking performance, including response times and task management
• Collaborate with internal teams (Ops, IT, Finance, PM, DM, Set-up, etc) to facilitate the implementation of new systems, study management tools and/or processes, as applicable
• Work closely with internal departments, external vendors and the sponsor to promote departmental initiatives and/or client needs
• Keep abreast of new technical developments and initiatives and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives to increase quality of services and operational efficiency
• Support Business develop team as needed and as assigned
• Actively participate or lead external customer meetings to promote company and support existing and future business
• Manage overall client relationship and achieve all budget, revenue, gross bookings and margin targets

Qualifications

Position Specifications and Job Requirements 

Experience: 

• 5 Year of Clinical research industry experience preferred
• 2 Years Project Management Experience, including line management experience preferred
• Strong understanding of Central Laboratory
• Experience managing cross functional global teams a plus
• Lean process design and implementation experience a plus

Education: 

• Bachelors of Science in Life Sciences or related field required
• MBA preferred

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities: 

• Demonstrated ability to improve complex operations
• Strategic thinker and demonstrated analytical ability 
• Strong people management skills with the ability to develop and lead cross functional teams 
• Strong interpersonal skills 
• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines 
• Strong Customer focus 
• Experience utilizing Microsoft Office Suite 
• High ethical standards 
• Ability to multitask and prioritized miltiple tasks, projects, and demands 
• Ability and willingness to make key businesses decisions in a dynamic environment 
• Self-Starter

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! 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/

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 is the 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 one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organizations. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialized and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 61,000 staff across a decentralized and entrepreneurial network of ca. 900 laboratories in 61 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 2022, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.