Quality Manager (m/f/d)

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.

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.

Job Description

• Quality Culture Leadership: Create and embed a strong culture focused on the delivery of high-quality results, work ethic, and maintaining the highest standards of operation.
• Strategic Oversight: Lead the strategic approach to quality as a cornerstone of our local Food & Feed businesses, ensuring that quality management is integral to every process.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive laboratories forward through continuous improvement initiatives and effective management of corporate quality KPIs.
• Analytical Precision: Ensure all reasonable steps are taken to achieve accuracy, reliability, and repeatability of analytical results in all laboratory operations.
• Regulatory Compliance: Work closely with teams to maintain regulatory accreditation and meet required standards.
• Innovation and Test Capability: Support the development of new testing capabilities to enhance the commercial offering of the business and expand Eurofins' technically demanding testing portfolio.
• Audit Management: Actively engage during external audits by national accreditation bodies and customers, ensuring compliance with all relevant standards. Address and oversee the completion of corrective actions resulting from audits.
• Cross-Functional Quality Support: Collaborate with teams outside of the lab, including logistics, to ensure quality standards are upheld across all stages of sample collection, handling, and transport.
• Training and Development: Lead the development and training of employees in the purpose and use of quality systems, ensuring all personnel are aligned with the company’s quality vision and objectives.

Qualifications

• Educational Background: A Master’s degree in Engineering, Microbiology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, or related.
• Professional Experience: Minimum of 5 years' experience in quality management, testing methods, proficiency testing organization, and ISO 17025 quality management. Experience in leading quality initiatives and implementing best practices is essential.
• Quality Expertise: Strong experience in quality management, with recognition by a National Accreditation considered a significant advantage.
• Leadership & Influence: Proven ability to lead and influence teams, even without direct formal responsibility. Ability to guide, motivate, and inspire teams to achieve exceptional results.
• Communication Skills: Excellent interpersonal skills, including interview, oral, and written communication. Ability to present ideas clearly and concisely to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Problem-Solving: A structured, analytical approach to problem-solving with a “can-do” attitude. Ability to navigate complex challenges and deliver practical, efficient solutions.
• Languages: Fluency in English (both written and spoken) is essential.

Additional Information
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 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.

Location:
6600 Vejen