Head of Category Management - Clinical Diagnostic

About Eurofins Scientific

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, aiming to make life and our environment safer, healthier, and more sustainable. Eurofins laboratories collaborate with major global companies to ensure product safety, ingredient authenticity, and accurate labeling for food, water, and medicines.

Eurofins is committed to delivering testing services that enhance societal and environmental health and safety. The company also upholds its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and foster diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout its network.

Job Description

Eurofins is seeking a strategic leader with a passion for procurement to drive the global purchasing strategy for the Clinical Diagnostic business line. This role involves managing supplier relationships and delivering financial performance, with a focus on continuous improvement to shape procurement excellence and support Eurofins' growth objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define, lead, and implement the purchasing strategy across all categories for the Clinical Diagnostic business line.
• Collaborate with a team of Category Managers and Purchasing Analysts, working closely with country-level purchasing teams and key internal stakeholders.
• Monitor the progress of all planned projects and implement corrective actions as needed.
• Develop and manage strategic category plans, including risk management, to achieve financial goals (P&L and cash flow).
• Lead global supplier sourcing activities, including RFI and RFP processes.
• Identify and implement cost leverage opportunities, best practices, and innovations through a continuous improvement and total cost of ownership (TCO) approach.
• Manage supplier issues and lead corrective actions to resolve quality or service level agreement (SLA) deviations.
• Track and report on all KPIs, communicate performance, and initiate actions if targets are not met.
• Develop and maintain strategic supplier relationship management (SRM) and foster key supplier partnerships.
• Support ESG initiatives in alignment with Eurofins Group ESG targets.
• Oversee and track the integration of acquired laboratories, maximizing synergies across procurement functions.
• Evaluate new tools and define new processes to enhance efficiency and performance.

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

• Educational background in Business, Finance, or Engineering.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in procurement, including leading global sourcing projects in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Experience with Procure-to-Pay (PtP) tools such as Coupa or Ariba.
• Experience in the clinical diagnostic business is a plus.

Skills and Competencies:

• Fluent in English, with excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Proven ability to manage multiple tasks and projects, set priorities effectively, and operate in a dynamic, cross-functional environment.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret and work with complex data sets.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams).

Additional Information

Career Development:

Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development. If you do not meet 100% of the requirements, we encourage you to apply.

Diversity and Inclusion:

Eurofins is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to strength and innovation through diversity. We prohibit discrimination based on gender identity/expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and other unique employee characteristics.

Sustainability:

Eurofins is working towards carbon neutrality by 2025 through emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage local sustainability changes and have a dedicated carbon reduction team.

Learn more at: https://careers.eurofins.com/

Company Overview

Eurofins Scientific is a global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic product testing, as well as discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences, and agroscience contract research services. The company also holds market-leading positions in genomics, clinical studies support, and biopharma contract development and manufacturing. Eurofins has a rapidly growing presence in highly specialized molecular clinical diagnostics and in-vitro diagnostic products.

Founded over 35 years ago, Eurofins has expanded from a single laboratory to approximately 62,000 employees across a decentralized network of over 900 laboratories in 62 countries. The company offers 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 shown strong stock performance over the past 20 years.