Purchasing Junior 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 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

We are currently looking for a motivated professional to join our Purchasing team in Brussels. As Eurofins grows, we need the best people to strengthen our purchasing processes and tools and standardize them at Group level.

You will lead a set of purchasing projects across the Group, reporting to the Purchasing Team Lead. These are strategic projects that will drive a breakthrough in purchasing’s ability to control and influence spending across the Group. They require collaboration with multiple stakeholders across different countries and a strong mind to reapply best practices and drive progress. You will take full ownership of the metrics and drive improvement, and communicate accordingly.

You will have the opportunity to broaden your responsibilities across other strategic programs, including digitization and cash optimization.

This is the job for you if you are interested in developing your skills in project management, understanding business processes and how to implement them, and interacting with several stakeholders, being at the crossroads of several functions.

Qualifications

Education: Master’s degree or equivalent in a relevant subject at Top University

Experience: A first experience in purchasing would be a plus

Languages: Fluent in English. An additional language would be a plus

Personal skills:

- Strong analytical skills

- Solid business knowledge

- Good level of autonomy

- Ability to work both in the detail and at a conceptual level

Technical Knowledge: Good knowledge of Microsoft Office tools

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! 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 62,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of 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 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.

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