6 month internship – Group Permanent Improvement Programmes

The Permanent Improvement Programmes (PIP) team based in Brussels offers internal consulting services as part of the Eurofins Group. The teams primary mission is to define govern and implement programmes to ensure harmonisation standardisation and optimisation of Eurofins companies operations.

The Eurofins Group is looking for new talent to join their driven and diverse team of consultants. As a highly motivated and entrepreneurial candidate who is keen to embrace a new challenge and contribute to the global strategy of a fastgrowing network this could be your next role!

The PIP team is led by an international group of supervisors who work closely with top management. As a network of companies that values entrepreneurship passion and curiosity you will build relationships that could lead to global opportunities in the Group.

You will be assigned to at least one project in the departments scope and support an Internal Consultant by independently running several activities with a clear and defined scope. As a PIP intern that contributes to key objectives of the team you will:

Define and support standardisation of key concepts and processes across the Eurofins network.

Outline and develop standard laboratory processes for specific applications.

Develop methodologies and standards for performance and costmanagement processes.

Some exciting projects the PIP team has overseen:

Conduct cost analyses to identify and correct low margin services With financial and operation data obtained from the laboratory the PIP team modelled how P&L costs are absorbed by each test. This enabled detailed portfolio profitability analysis leading to targeted pricing adjustments and the identification of improvement project.
 

Work on longerterm initiatives such as the global rollout of new Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) By working closely with laboratory managers to restructure cost and revenue accounting they helped identify costsaving opportunities using internal benchmarks and standardised project work breakdown structures.
 

Productivity benchmarking In collaboration with laboratory managers the PIP team gathered and standardised operational data to benchmark productivity across laboratories. Through indepth analysis they uncovered root causes behind performance differences between comparable teams and departments.

INTERNSHIP DETAILS:

Fulltime compensated internship based in Brussels Belgium.

The internship should last for 6 months starting in September 2025.

An internship agreement with your university is mandatory.

Qualifications :

Education: Currently enrolled in a Masters degree in Science Engineering or Business in a top university/business school with an excellent academic track record.

Languages: Excellent English both oral and written is a must. French and/or German are a plus.

Personal skills: Strong problemsolver with cando attitude able to both pragmatically define solutions and capture and understand all relevant details when necessary.

Technical knowledge IT: Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite. Structured query language (SQL) skills are a plus.

Additional Information :

We support your development! Do you feel you dont match 100% of the requirements Dont hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

Weembracediversity! As an Equal Opportunity Employer the Eurofins network of companies believes in strength and innovation through diversity. 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 on our Careers page: 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 invitro diagnostic products.

In over 37 years Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes France to ca. 63000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 950 laboratories in over 1000 companies across 60 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety identity composition authenticity origin traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2024 Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.95 billion and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime