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Eurofins Managing Director Eurofins Dermscan Poland in Gdańsk, Poland
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.
Eurofins Dermscan Poland, located in Gdańsk since 2008 assesses the safety and efficacy of cosmetics and pharmaceutical products and is a part of a global Cosmetics and Personal Care Products testing network. We are looking for an experienced and motivated General Manager to drive the Team and Company forward.
Key accountabilities:
Act as the statutory Managing Director of Eurofins Dermscan Poland legal entity.
Drive profitability of the legal entity and own P&L results.
Manage operational performance of the provided testing services in terms of cost, quality and lead time in line with Customer requirements.
Champion operational excellence improvement initiatives.
Build solid competency base for new testing processes and innovation.
Assure alignment of the legal entity with Group and Business Line objectives and standards.
Hold the personnel responsibility with a clear focus on engagement and capability development.
Direct leadership of the management team including selection and performance management.
Develop organizational culture aligned with Eurofins DNA and values.
Ensure compliance with local regulations on clinical investigations.
Degree in a related scientific discipline (e.g. life science) or business.
At least 5 years of operations management experience preferably with a P&L accountability.
Experience from TIC (Testing, Inspection, Certification) or cosmetics industries nice to have but not required. We are open to candidates with industrial / manufacturing / pharma / complex services backgrounds.
Excellent communication skills.
Sound P&L / financial acumen.
Critical thinking and structured problem-solving skills.
Change management and business turn-around capabilities.
Strong drive for results and hands-on way of working.
Fluent Polish 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! As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the Eurofins Network of companies believe 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 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.