Regional IT-Director Food & Feed Testing BNL
Regional IT-Director Food & Feed Testing BNL
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Job Description
Eurofins Food Feed and Water Benelux is seeking an experienced IT Director to lead and manage all aspects of IT operations services and strategy for our Food Testing division in the Netherlands and Belgium. This role will be pivotal in ensuring the alignment of IT strategies with business objectives driving digital transformation initiatives and overseeing the effective management of technology platforms across multiple business units. The ideal candidate would have a strong background in IT leadership be able to drive change even when facing resistance collaborate across functionals and have a proven ability to deliver technology solutions that drive business success. Familiarity with laboratory practices would be a beneficial as well as exposure to large-scale software migrations.
Key Responsibilities
- Managing Director (solely authorised to represent the company)
- Responsibility for 3 Team Leads heading up 3 teams (IT Operations IT Delivery and IT Infra total approx. 20 employees)
- Responsible for the following IT topics:
- Operation maintenance deployment of LIMS applications (laboratory information and management system equivalent to an ERP)
- International harmonisation of software applications
- Change management driven by harmonisation.
- Creation of concepts for IT projects (feasibility analysis making a recommendation)
- Operation of commercial software systems (licenses maintenance contracts)
- Digitalisation (processes and interfaces)
- Requirements and stakeholder management
- IT field service in the BNL region and Service desk
- IT infrastructure projects
- Collaboration and coordination with other IT teams (Group IT applications IT Security etc.)
- IT costs: budgeting controlling and cost optimisation.
- Acting as contact person for the company and Management of the laboratories in all IT matters.
- People management:
- Team organisation and structure
- Interfacing between the teams
- Initiating change processes and managing change
- Willingness to travel both within the Netherlands and Belgium as well as occasionally outside of Benexlux
Qualifications :
- Education: A bachelors or masters degree in information technology computer science or a related field.
- Experience:
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in IT management with at least 3 years in a leadership role overseeing IT operations in a regional or global context.
- Proven record of managing cross-functional teams and delivering IT solutions that align with business strategy.
- Experience with IT infrastructure management digital transformation and large-scale IT projects.
- Skills & Competencies:
- Strong leadership and people management skills with the ability to motivate and develop high-performing teams.
- Communication and influence skills: Persuasive communication and stakeholder management abilities with the capacity to effectively bridge communication between business and IT as well as across different IT teams.
- Business management skills (able to manage and control a company with approx. 20 employees)
- Excellent strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities with a deep understanding of the role of technology in business transformation.
- General IT knowledge to be able to categorise trends and make recommendations even if for example specific experience is still lacking.
- Strong sensitivity for IT security processes and systems
- Hands-on mentality
- Strong project management and organisational skills.
- The role requires proficiency in both English and Dutch.
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!The Eurofins network of companies believes in strength and innovation through diversity being anEqual 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: 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. 62000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 900 laboratories in 62 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 2023 Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6515 million and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.
Remote Work :
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Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
