Country Manager Eurofins Professional Scientific Services Italy Full-time
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 primary purpose of the Country Manager role in Italy is to strategically manage, lead, and coordinate multiple Professional Scientific Services (PSS) teams and their on-site leaders to ensure that our teams, located at our clients' sites, are operating at the highest quality and productivity standards.
The Country Manager will be the key point of contact for our clients from an operational management point of view, and a key point of contact to link with Senior Management in Italy and their peers across Europe.
This person will be responsible for the Profit & Loss (P&L) management of the Italian PSS Business Unit, including contributing to the budget process.
Furthermore, this role will actively participate in business development activities for existing and new businesses, driving growth across the scope of Italy.
This position is a strong combination of strategic planning, managing operational excellence, client relationship management, and leadership, using HR best practices.
This is a remote position involving frequent traveling (60-70% of working time). The Country Manager reports directly to the Managing Director.
Minimum Requirements:
Education: A degree in a related scientific discipline (i.e. life science, engineering, quality…) is required and additional qualification in business is an advantage.
Experience: At least 5 years of operational experience with management responsibilities.
Skills/knowledge: Sound knowledge of processes and requirements within life science or pharmaceutical industries (i.e. quality standards, GMP environment), business development and client relationship management skills, excellent communication and organization skills, financial/P&L acumen, team player, proactive, organized, and flexible.
Languages: Fluent in both Italian and English.
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/
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