IT Infrastructure Project Manager

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.

OVERALL OBJECTIVES:

This role is responsible for providing project planning and management for IT Infrastructure projects, within the scope of the IT Transformation/Segregation program (high impact, highly visible) for the next few years. What is this Segregation program? CPT Europe will have soon its own network, domain, email and regional datacenter in the cloud. All CPT Europe labs will migrate their network and computers & servers to this new domain in the next months.

Once the Segregation is done, this role will be responsible for other infra projects for CPT Europe, mostly focused on deployments and local IT projects.

The successful candidate will ensure that IT Infra projects are completed to specification, within an established time frame and budget, as per expected quality; and manage all aspects of coordination and delivery, including definition, planning, troubleshooting, monitoring and customer satisfaction of IT Infra projects.

SPECIFIC ASSIGNMENTS – KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

IT Project Management (80%)

Thanks to a strong Infra expertise (Network; SD-WAN; AD Azure; Office365; Cloud hosting; Windows servers…), act as the Infra Technical Referent for the IT Segregation Project. Help the local ITs in diagnostics and in all preparation activities for the migration to the new CPT Europe domain and regional datacenter. Manage crisis during migration activities to minimize the impact on the business and their customers.

In this position, you will manage, monitor and deliver IT Infra projects, as part of the IT Transformation/Segregation program;

You are defining scope, provide estimates, plan the budget, identify resources, oversee project governance; organizing and managing all phases of the project to ensure timely completion;

You are in charge of Reporting + Dashboard with KPIs and establishing delivery monitoring controls and governance mechanisms;

You will proactively identify project delivery risks, establish mitigation mechanisms and communicate these to appropriate stakeholders by assembling and coordinating project team members and assign individual responsibilities;

You will prepare requests for proposals and conduct all necessary meetings to facilitate selection of project services and products. In the meantime, you are preparing and presenting decision-making material to management;

You will adhere to standardized IT Project Management practices and work closely with the Regional PMO (project charter, project plan, timelines, requirements documents, project and resource planning, deployment plans, support plans, conversion plans, user guides etc.);

You will also plan and oversee the preparation and dissemination of standard project communications within CPT Europe sites and local IT (Field Support Agents);

Other (20%)

As our IT Infrastructure Project Manager, you will backup of the CPT Europe Infrastructure SDM and the CPT Europe IT Manager.

Relationship / Team Management

As part of our multiple IT teams (Local/Zone/Region/Group), you will ensure compliance with policies and standards, but also security.

You will engage with business and local IT (FSA, Business Application Owners) to collaboratively deliver IT Infra projects, in a highly interdependent ecosystem with multiple stakeholders across the globe;

Acting as a consultant and Infra expert towards your internal customer(s), you will build a network of key stakeholders (Local, Zone, Regional and Group), technical and non-technical (Infra experts, Enterprise Architect and Solutions specialists, or Business Analysts) and foster a productive relationship with them;

You will also lead, guide, inspire, and motivate the project team and Foster collaboration, promote synergies and share good practices/methodologies.

General requirements:

You hold a Master’s degree in computer science or related field.

Proud of your ITIL Foundation certification; IT Security Certification (CISSP, ISO27005 Risk Manager…); PMP Certification and / or Agile Certifications.

You have 10-15 years of overall IT experience in a similar IT Infrastructure function; with 5+ years of experience as a Project Manager of complex enterprise-wide IT Infra projects, preferably in an international organization, in an industrial or process driven environment, and ideally in the laboratory industry;

You have relevant experience in IT Service Delivery Management.

Technical requirements:

You are very proud of your Infra expertise: Network (LAN/WAN/SD-WAN/FW/Switch/AP); AD Azure; Virtualization; Cloud (Google/Azure/AWS); Windows Server; Intune; File&Print; Patch Management;

Thorough technical understanding of software and Infrastructure aspects of IT projects

You are familiar with relevant regulatory requirements (GxP, GDPR, Cofrac, …)

You are an expert of Microsoft Project and/or other project management tools (JIRA...) and also ServiceNow (Ticketing, CMDB)

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 Organisations. 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 61,000 staff across a decentralised 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.