IT Solution Leader - Clinical Diagnostics Germany

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:

As an IT Solutions Leader, you will drive the digital and IT agenda for IT Business Applications (at Eurofins called IT Solutions) across the Clinical Diagnostics business line in Germany. Shaping how technology supports long‑term business growth, operational efficiency, and innovation. This high‑impact international leadership role requires a strong business mindset, the ability to interact with senior stakeholders, and a pragmatic understanding of how technology creates value.

This position is central to supporting the Eurofins network’s strategic transition toward IT centralisation. As an IT Leader, you will ensure that the Clinical Diagnostics division aligns with Group‑wide standards, reduces local development, and fully adopts shared platforms and governance frameworks.

Key Responsibilities:

In this role you and your team are the first point of contact for the business for any kind of issue or demand for IT Solutions in Clinical Diagnostics Germany. Additionally, you will be the interface to the Group IT Solutions, which deliver your business’ main IT services like LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System), CRM, Finance & Accounting etc.

You will need to arbitrate and understand together with Group IT Solutions, which IT Application you keep regional (e.g. for integrating with local healthcare providers) and which will be provided by Group IT Solutions. Identifying and agreeing on the IT requirements is an important part of this arbitration process.

In your daily business you will support & operate the regional IT Solutions. You will regularly monitor the cost and yearly budget for next year’s cost.

Your IT Application will run on‑premise and in cloud. You will have to evaluate what is the best fit and in which case, which IT Application runs best in cloud or on‑premise.

The combination of efficiency, effectiveness and stability will be your key to success. Finding the optimal solution for your business is your challenge.

Strategy & business alignment

• Define and communicate the IT vision and roadmap aligned with regional and global business & IT strategy.
• Facilitate an efficient IT application landscape using Group IT Solutions and regional IT Solutions to stimulate growth targets and increase profitability.
• Act as a strategic liaison between regional business units and Group IT, ensuring mutual understanding, alignment, and the smooth adoption of centralised solutions.
• Maintain an outward looking approach, proactively scout emerging technologies and assess digital trends to continuously modernise Clinical Diagnostics’ IT landscape.
• Actively benchmark with other Eurofins business lines to leverage best practices, avoid duplication, and accelerate IT maturity across Clinical Diagnostics.

Development, Delivery, Operations & Governance

• Lead the regional IT Solution organisation, including development, delivery, and its support & operations.
• Improve alignment and maturity across local businesses by developing a regional coordination model, ensuring that key roles are embedded in the broader IT strategy and delivery ecosystem.
• Oversee major transformation programs including lab automation, lab IT standardisation, ensuring value realisation and stakeholder engagement.
• Govern IT investments, ensuring the portfolio delivers ROI and mitigates risk.
• Own the regional IT budget: define, control, and optimise costs while ensuring value for money and supporting key business priorities.
• Ensure strong collaboration with global IT, Group governance, and external technology partners.
• Ensure that local IT solutions are phased out in favour of standardised Group IT Solutions.
• Promote reuse and integration over custom development.

Cost ownership

• Define the annual budget for the regional IT Solutions and the cost for integrating the Group IT Solutions.
• Monitor cost compliance during the year and react on any budget deviation.

People, Culture & Change

• Foster a culture of joint ownership between IT and the business. Ensure that solutions are fully embedded, adopted, and deliver business value across all levels.
• Champion change management, digital literacy, and innovation across the business.
• Foster a high-performance IT culture through talent development, coaching, and cross-functional leadership.
• Ensure that your team accountabilities and responsibilities are clear and communicate to all stakeholders.

Performance Evaluation Criteria

• Business Value Realisation: Measurable contribution of IT initiatives to revenue growth, cost savings, and operational efficiency.
• Program & Operations Excellence: Percentage of major programs delivered on time/in budget/scope, combined with uptime and SLA performance.
• Strategic Alignment & Innovation: Degree to which the IT roadmap is aligned with business strategy, plus adoption of emerging technologies that modernise the IT landscape.
• Stakeholder & Customer Satisfaction: Satisfaction scores from business leaders, global IT, and external partners on IT’s value, responsiveness, and collaboration.
• People & Culture Leadership: Employee engagement, adoption of change initiatives, and success in developing and retaining top IT talent.

Qualifications

Education and experience

• Education: A bachelor’s or master’s degree in business administration, or a related field.
• Proven experience (10+ years) in IT leadership roles within a non-tech company.
• Proven experience as IT project manager and used Prince, PMI or similar multiple times in your projects.
• Solid understanding of enterprise systems (e.g., LIMS, CRM, accounting systems), but more importantly, the business value they enable.
• Cross-functional leadership experience, ideally in regulated or process-heavy industries.
• This role requires proficiency in English.

Preferred Skills and Competencies

• Strategic Thinking: Ability to define long-term vision and translate it into actionable plans.
• Leadership & Influence: Proven experience leading diverse teams and influencing executive stakeholders.
• Business Acumen: Deep understanding of how IT creates business value in a non-tech environment.
• Cloud Competency: Experience in cloud transformation and running IT Applications in Azure or AWS in an enterprise scaled setup
• Project management: Delivered multiple IT projects successfully in your past
• Communication: Excellent communication and storytelling skills across all organisational levels.
• Change Leadership: Experienced in leading business transformation and digital change programs.

Additional Information

We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? 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!

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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. 65,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 950 laboratories in 60 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.