IT Infrastructure Project Manager - Bucharest (Romania)

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.

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.

Job Description

In a nutshell:

OVERALL OBJECTIVES:

As part of the IT Infrastructure Support Team for Eurofins Food, Feed & Agro Testing Europe, you will join a growing international team, understand, and lead strategic IT Infrastructure projects. Your role and activity will have extensive exposure to business leadership. It will require strong stakeholder management and interface with multiple internal as well as external parties.

You will get an opportunity to drive Eurofins major IT Infrastructure transition and transformation across Food, Feed & Agro Testing Europe businesses.

SPECIFIC ASSIGNMENTS:

• Manage, monitor, and deliver multiple interrelated IT Infrastructure Transformation / Integration / Segregation projects throughout Food Feed and Agro testing businesses across Europe. These projects will be aimed to perform installations, configuration and migrations of enterprise-level IT infrastructure systems, components, and related software. This may include Windows Server 2012 / 2016 / 2019 (standard or enterprise level), Linux, VMWare, virtual & physical servers, cloud solutions (Azure, Amazon), Active Directory, Office 365, Exchange, storage, network, firewalls, load balancers as well as end user technologies, SDWAN, Wi-Fi, security, monitoring and management software and components.
• Define scope, provide estimates, plan the budget, allocate resources, own and govern the communication, ensuring high level of internal cooperation.
• Proactively identify project delivery risks and issues. Establish mitigation mechanisms and effectively communicate and escalate to ensure progress.
• Own schedule and deliver projects as per the scope, on time and to the budget without compromising high quality deliverables, in a highly interdependent ecosystem with multiple stakeholders.
• Establish delivery monitoring controls and governance mechanisms.
• Lead, guide, inspire, motivate, and direct multiple cross organizational teams and suppliers to deliver products ensuring a return on investment.
• Prepare and present periodic decision-making materials for senior executive management.
• Ensure all abovementioned activities are executed in line with agreed policies, best practices, and standards.

Qualifications

Are you kind of extraordinary?

REQUIRED PROFILE:

• Proven track record of managing complex IT Infrastructure integration, post-acquisition, transition, or carve-out projects, preferably in an international organization.

• Proven analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills. The successful candidate will be able to describe multiple business situations where these skills have been leveraged.
• Commanding project leadership and follow-through with delivery team resources.
• Strong customer focused, team-oriented communication skills with emphasis on building lasting, trusted partnerships through written and verbal communications, presentations to management.
• Deep project management practice experience & discipline with adherence to process in an agile/rapid development methodology.
• Sound understanding of IT Quality Management Systems and/or Agile Frameworks.
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Project and/or other project management tools.
• Ability to work in an amorphous environment delivering results by influencing the assets outside the hierarchy setup.
• Successful experience delivering results from international and geographically disparate teams, including both local and remote resources and contending for heavily utilized centralized resources.

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with a track record of working directly with senior executive levels.
• Excellent written and verbal skills in English. Additional language skills in French are a big plus.

• Willingness to travel and work frequently throughout Europe.  
• Ability to have fun while working hard in a demanding fluid environment.

We are offering the following:

• A competitive salary package, including bonus and benefits;
• Extensive on-the-job coaching and training opportunities;
• Challenges within a multi-cultural and cross-regional team as part of the international and fast-growing Eurofins organization;
• A dynamic working environment with a good team spirit where personal development and growth are highly encouraged.

Standard benefits:

• Additional Performance Bonus up to 1 Month Salary per year
• Meal Vouchers
• Gym Reimbursement
• Medical Sub and Health Insurance
• 25 days of holidays + 1 extra day off for your birthday
• Additional holidays for your loyalty
• Remote work activity in Romania.

What else should I know? 

As the role and Eurofins' IT Talent Acquisition team are international, please ensure to submit your application in English.

Additional Information

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! The Eurofins network of companies believes 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 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.

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