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Why are we here?
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.
In a nutshell
In this role you will lead two Global IT Programs, one for Application Lifecycle Management and one for Application Monitoring & Observability Platform.
As an IT Solutions Director, you will be leading two critical Programs (serving more than 1,500 customers) by providing IT Tools and Standards for our in-house Product Development & Product Delivery teams across Eurofins (Ireland and other global locations).
In your role as Program Manager for the Application Lifecycle Management you will provide the inhouse IT Product Development teams with the best tools to develop software for our laboratories and for our customers. These tools, which you will provide and manage are:
Our repositories for requirements, code, test cases etc.
Our tool for static code analysis.
Our tools for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).
In your second as Program Manager for the Application Monitoring & Observability Platform you will manage our “eyes and ears” to monitor the health and performance of our global Applications running to service our customers worldwide. This include log analytics platform, observability platform, alerting and all kinds of monitoring for Applications.
On top you will define together with our Architecture Office the global standards for our internal IT Product Development concerning coding standards, best practices on requirements elicitation and management etc.
Where will you be based and what business will you support?
Based in Dublin, you will lead our Application Development Lifecycle Management, and Application Monitoring and Observability Programs.
How can you help us?
As an IT Solutions Director you will:
Lead two global IT programs with responsibility for all program management aspects including budget and controlling, people and performance management, IT strategy and planning;
Collaborate closely with other IT programs and teams, to implement new projects, IT initiatives and drive continuous improvement of the IT organisation;
Prepare global decisions on the roadmap of our IT Tools for Application Development, Monitoring, Observability etc;
Be responsible for local talent strategies and employee engagement, promotion of employee focused initiatives and leading company events;
Be responsible for budget preparation, forecasting, resource planning and cost controlling for IT programs;
Manage third party vendors, contracts and licenses for group solutions;
Be accountable as a Business Unit (BU) Manager, including resources, cost management and reporting;
Be responsible for annual review process and general performance management of employees in program/BU scope.
Be responsible for ensuring the adoption of and adherence to local and Global policies.
Act as an escalation point for HR issues and queries.
Support and promote the health, safety and wellbeing of Employees within GSC Dublin.
Are you our kind of extraordinary?
You have:
A Master’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics or similarly related field;
10+ years’ experience in IT or related fields, with 5+ years in a senior management or leadership role;
Experience with budget preparation, forecasting and P&L management;
Working experience with Application Lifecycle Management Tools, like Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise, JFrog Artifactory;
Working experience with monitoring & observability tools like ELK stack (Elasticsarch, Logtash, Kibana), AppDynamics, Grafana or similar;
Strong IT management experience, ideally from a large IT organisation serving internal business customers;
Excellent leadership, communication and collaboration skills;
Experience managing large multi-discipline teams across multiple remote locations;
Background in or strong working knowledge of software development processes, tools and methodologies;
Working knowledge of custom application development, cloud technologies and automation.
What else should I know?
The following skills are an advantage:
Software engineering or development experience in previous roles;
Experience working in life sciences or Pharma industries;
Experience in overseeing HR processes and being a voice of reason when called upon.
What can we offer you?
A competitive salary package, including bonus and benefits;
Extensive on-the-job coaching and training opportunities;
A hybrid working setup;
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.
Your application:
As the role and Eurofins' IT Talent Acquisition team are international, please ensure to submit your application in English.
Want to know more about us?
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 ca. 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.