Project Manager

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 works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate. Eurofins believes it is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies.

In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 48,000 staff across a network of more than 900 independent companies in over 50 countries and operating more than 800 laboratories. Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services, as one of the leading global emerging players in specialised clinical diagnostics testing.

In 2019, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 4.56 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Job Description

Consider joining Eurofins where people are the most important element in our business.  Eurofins Biopharma Product Testing is a leading contract lab that provides testing and research services in the environmental, pharmaceutical, and biopharmaceutical sciences to clients worldwide. 

We have fantastic opportunity for a Project Manager to join our team in Dungarvan Co Waterford. 

The purpose of this job is to facilitate the delivery of laboratory services to achieve client requirements and business plan. Serve as the primary communication link between the client and the laboratory staff; act as project manager for client projects, organize client visits and audits, provide sample login information to Sample Intake, and help resolve issues between clients and Eurofins staff. 

Job Responsibilities

• Support Business Development with the scoping of Projects as part of Quoting process
• Develop Project Plans
• Define Phases & milestones in conjunction with the client & operational colleagues. 
• Monitor adherence toward pre-defined phases and milestones
• Timeline management
• Responsible for “Kick-off” meetings for assigned pharmaceutical clients
• Manage all phases of each assigned project, including budget,
• Monitor invoicing schedule,
• Monitor resource requirements,
• Ownership of on-site project plan and client deliverables
• Manage multiple projects concurrently, maintaining project schedule and quality deliverables.
• Coordinate with other commercial group personnel as well as Quality and Technical Delivery resources to ensure the timely and quality preparation of project deliverables based on assigned scope-of-services
• Oversee development and approval of study materials on projects at assigned pharmaceutical clients
• Ensure all project deliverables are of high quality and exceed client’s expectations in compliance with Quality Management governance procedures
• Oversee study management and coordinate study status with project sponsors (internal & external)
• Coordinate management of resources and tasks to ensure availability/continuity of all logistics, materials and technologies necessary as defined by scope-of-services.
• Coordinate with project sponsors to ensure all project expectations are met.
• Proactively identify new opportunities to upsell Eurofins BPT services.
• Risk identification/management and contingency planning.
• Prepare, conduct and document lessons learned activities as a handover of project results for documentation.
• Liaise with Commercial & Operational leadership to proactively introduce new services.

Qualifications

• Degree in relevant technical or business subject or equivalent years of experience in role.
• Experience with managing work plans, project budgets, invoicing, resource allocation and deliverable management
• Demonstrated analytical, organizational, creative problem solving and structured communication skills
• Strong client and vendor relationship skills
• Ability to travel for business (overnight trips are to be expected)
• Demonstrated proficiency with computers, especially Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Access, Skype for Business, Teams, MS Project, Visio etc.).
• Familiarity with CRM desirable
• Basic proficiency in eLIMS.
• Fluency in English (will be required to write, speak and understand English to conduct day-to day business)
• Ability to manage own time proactively identify prioritized tasks
• Entrepreneurial spirit, drive and work ethic
• Focus on attention to detail

Additional Information

A large part of the work of the role involves interaction with all functions within Eurofins BPT Laboratories as well as with clients. This will include planned regular team meetings, client meetings as well as ad hoc discussions across the business. For this reason, the person performing this role will need to be available at the Ireland site as required by clients / internal meetings.

There is likely to be a significant amount of time required to be spent at or travelling to client’s sites across the territory (and occasionally beyond) consequently the job holder must be prepared to travel and this will involve nights away from home, it is anticipated that a minimum of 50% travel time is required per week.