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Company Description
Eurofins is an international network of independent life sciences companies, 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 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 its companies around the world.
Job Description
HOW CAN YOU HELP US?
In a nutshell:
We are looking for a scientifically driven and hands-on Business Unit Manager to lead our Contaminants Testing Business Unit, specialising in dioxins analysis, within Eurofins Food & Feed Testing in the Netherlands.
This role combines scientific expertise, operational excellence, and people leadership, making it ideal for a professional with a strong technical background who is ready to take the next step into broader business leadership.
You will be responsible for overseeing laboratory operations, driving technological improvements, developing your team, and ensuring the continued delivery of high-quality analytical testing services. With full P&L responsibility, you will also contribute to the financial performance and long-term development of the Business Unit.
What team will you be part of?
You will join Eurofins Lab Zeeuws Vlaanderen, part of Eurofins Food & Feed Testing, a global leader in analytical testing services.
The Business Unit specialises in contaminants testing, with a strong focus on dioxins analysis, supporting the safety and quality of food and feed products. Through advanced analytical techniques, including chromatography, the laboratory plays an important role in identifying unwanted contaminants in agricultural commodities, oils, and other food and feed products throughout the supply chain.
Based in Graauw, in the southern Netherlands near the Belgian border, the laboratory works closely with other Eurofins laboratories across Europe, providing specialised analytical services to internal customers.
You will lead an experienced operational and scientific team of approximately 30-40 employees, including laboratory analysts and team leaders. Reporting directly to the Business Unit Cluster Manager, you will collaborate closely with technical specialists, operational colleagues, and internal stakeholders to ensure high-quality service delivery and continuous improvement.
As Business Unit Manager, you will:
- Take ownership of the operational and financial performance of the Business Unit, including P&L responsibility.
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of scientific and operational professionals.
- Oversee laboratory operations, ensuring high standards of quality, efficiency, and service delivery.
- Drive technological improvements, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders and Eurofins customers.
- Monitor operational and financial KPIs, identifying opportunities to improve performance and profitability.
- Contribute to business planning, budgeting, and the long-term development of the Business Unit.
- Ensure compliance with relevant quality, safety, and regulatory standards.
Qualifications
Are you our kind of extraordinary?
You are a scientifically minded and pragmatic professional with a strong analytical background, a hands-on approach, and the ambition to combine technical expertise with operational and business leadership.
Your profile includes:
- A strong scientific background, ideally in analytical chemistry, chemical sciences, biological engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Experience in a laboratory, scientific, analytical testing, or technically complex operational environment.
- A solid understanding of analytical techniques, laboratory processes, and scientific problem-solving. Experience with chromatography is particularly relevant.
- Leadership experience or demonstrated potential to lead, motivate, and develop experienced technical teams.
- A hands-on and structured approach, with the ability to translate scientific and operational challenges into practical solutions.
- Strong analytical and organisational skills, with an interest in operational performance, efficiency, and continuous improvement.
- The ability to build credibility with experienced scientific professionals and collaborate effectively with different stakeholders.
- An understanding of business performance metrics, including KPIs, budgets, and profitability. Previous P&L experience is an advantage but not mandatory.
- A proactive, results-driven mindset with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
- Experience in food and feed testing, contaminants analysis, pharmaceutical testing, or other regulated scientific environments is an advantage, but not essential.
Education:
- Degree in Analytical Chemistry, Chemistry, Biological Engineering, or a related scientific discipline.
Languages:
- Dutch and English.
- Knowledge of French is an advantage, particularly given the international stakeholder environment.
Location:
- Graauw, Netherlands
- Onsite presence of approximately 80% (4 days per week).
- Candidates based in Belgium are welcome to apply.
Additional Information
We support your development! Do you feel like 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! As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the Eurofins network of companies believes in strength and innovation through diversity. 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.
Find out more on our Careers page: https://careers.eurofins.com/
Company description: Eurofins Scientific is an international network of independent life sciences companies, 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 under 40 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 65,000 employees across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of over 950 laboratories in over 1,000 independent companies across 57 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.
The Eurofins network generated EUR 7.296 billion revenues in FY 2025, and has been one of the fastest growing listed European companies for almost three decades.
