Business Unit Manager NGS Konstanz (m/w/d)

Eurofins are seeking a Business Unit Manager, who will be responsible for the operational delivery and profitable growth of an NGS laboratory within the Genomics business line in Germany. 

Responsibilities include: 

• Ensuring the safe, efficient, and high-quality operation of a genomics laboratory in Konstanz, Germany. 
• Leading and developing a team of approx. 35 FTEs, ensuring the lab operates to the required standards in-line with the QMS.
• Hiring, motivating, developing and retaining excellent managers and employees within your business.
• Taking accountability for the P&L of the business unit and managing costs in-line with the budget for the financial year.
• Developing methods to reduce cost, increase profitability and improve operations efficiency & turnaround times to meet best industry standards in all activities.
• Working with the senior team to ensure results are being reported correctly and in a timely manner.
• Being a technical expert for the business and our customers.
• Working closely with sales and translate customers’ requirements into the operations (e.g. new method development, Service Level performance).
• Ensuring all equipment is maintained and serviced to the correct standard so it is safe to operate and fully calibrated.
• Ensuring that process parameters are respected; issuing deviation reports, pinpointing the root causes, and taking preventive actions to enhance the process efficiency and product quality.

• Academic education (at least university Bachelor level) with very good grades in science/related field is required
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in a managerial role with team management responsibility and a focus on production, re-engineering and industrialization
• An understanding of NGS, legislative requirements and industry standards is preferable.
• Good working knowledge of laboratories with a clear understanding of the key elements such a business involves
• Hands-on, diligent, a ‘doer’ with a common sense approach
• Able to build and structure business plans, submissions and initiatives.

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!

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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 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 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.