Job
- Level
- Lead
- Job Field
- IT, System, DevOps
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Munich
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will develop IT strategies, analyze Clinical Diagnostics requirements, and lead the implementation of regional and global IT solutions to drive efficiency and innovation.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- As an IT Solution 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.
- In this role, you and your team are the first point of contact for the business regarding any issues or requests for IT solutions in Clinical Diagnostics Germany. You will also serve as the interface to Group IT Solutions, which provides your business with key IT services such as LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System), CRM, Finance & Accounting, etc.
- You will need to arbitrate and understand together with Group IT Solution which IT application you keep regionally (e.g., for integrating with local healthcare providers) and which will be provided by Group IT Solution. Identifying and agreeing on the IT requirements is an important part of this arbitration process.
- In your daily business, you will support and operate the regional IT solutions. You will regularly monitor the costs and the annual budget for the upcoming year.
- Your IT application will run on-premise and in the cloud. You will need to evaluate what is the best fit and, in each case, which IT application runs best in the cloud or on-premise.
- 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 centralized solutions.
- Maintain an outward looking approach, proactively scout emerging technologies and assess digital trends to continuously modernize Clinical Diagnostics' IT landscape.
- Actively benchmark with other Eurofins business lines to leverage best practices, avoid duplication, and accelerate IT maturity across Clinical Diagnostics.
- Lead the regional IT Solution organization, 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 realization and stakeholder engagement.
- Govern IT investments, ensuring the portfolio delivers ROI and mitigates risk.
- Own the regional IT budget: define, control, and optimize 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 standardized Group IT Solutions.
- Promote reuse and integration over custom development.
- 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
- Cost types include personnel cost, license cost, IT Infrastructure cost for IT Solutions etc.
- 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 in your team accountabilities and responsibilities are clear and communicate to all stakeholders.
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Our expectations of you
Education
- Education: A bachelor's or master's degree in business administration, or a related field.
Qualifications
- Solid understanding of enterprise systems (e.g., LIMS, CRM, accounting systems), but more importantly, the business value they enable.
- The role requires proficiency in English.
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to define long-term vision and translate it into actionable plans.
- Business Acumen: Deep understanding of how IT creates business value in a non-tech environment.
- Project management: Delivered multiple IT projects successfully in your past
- Communication: Excellent communication and storytelling skills across all organizational levels.
Experience
- Proven experience (10+ years) in IT leadership roles within a non-tech company.
- Proven experience as an IT project manager and have used Prince, PMI, or similar methodologies multiple times in your projects.
- Cross-functional leadership experience, ideally in regulated or process-heavy industries.
- Leadership & Influence: Proven experience leading diverse teams and influencing executive stakeholders.
- Cloud Competency: Experience in cloud transformation and running IT Applications in Azure or AWS in an enterprise scaled setup
- Change Leadership: Experienced in leading business transformation and digital change programs.
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What we offer
- 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! The Eurofins network of companies believes in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applicants 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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Eurofins Scientific
As a leading provider of analytical services for food, environmental, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic products, Eurofins is dedicated to providing innovative solutions for its customers across various industries. In addition, Eurofins also offers agricultural contract research services (CRO). With its wide range of offerings and expertise, Eurofins is your one-stop shop for all your analytical needs.
Description
- Company Size
- 50-249 Employees
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Pharmaceutical Sector, Chemical Industry, Biotech, Science, Research
IT Solution Leader
- Location
- Munich
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
