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. SUMMARY OF POSITION AND OBJECTIVES: With the introduction of the new role, Group Industrial Controlling Director, the aim of building on piloted productivity tools to establish and implement operational Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) across the Group is addressed. Key to the role, will be to align operational metrics with financial data. The initial focus will be to accelerate the production of more granular P&Ls and deploy productivity and price-volume metrics. Over time, the Group Industrial Controlling Director will establish a team to track these operational KPI’s within the business. The Group Industrial Controlling Director will ensure proper standards for cost and operational KPIs and lead the review and audit of these metrics. POSITION AND OBJECTIVES: More specifically, the Group Industrial Controlling Director will: + Deploy systematic benchmarking of laboratories. + Assure that all relevant initiatives are reflected in the budgets while budget guidelines are respected. + CAPEX: + Support the optimisation of CAPEX budgets for instruments and real estate considering reliable instrument utilisation KPIs and footprint strategy. + Establish instrument utilisation metrics and integrate results to justify CAPEX requests. + M&A: Systematically monitor and ensure that business plans from acquisition recommendations get achieved by the acquired laboratories. + Offsite KPIs: Ensure the generation of standard agreed upon KPIs for all off- site operations. + Ensure all Business Units autonomously and near automatically implement the Cost Calculation model (APCC) to calculate the cost of tests. Thereby market segments, methods subgroups and customer profit and contributions can be calculated. + All these initiatives must bridge financial tools and operational metrics, generally generated by the Laboratory Information Mangement Systems (LIMS) to ensure a proper reconciliation with P&Ls. This will require: + The set-up of dedicated modules in PowerBI or other systems to facilitate the reporting, reconciliation and usage of such metrics. + The development of training materials for business leaders detailing the use these tools and templates. + The formalisation of these templates and processes via internal documentation. + Master’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Engineering or Chemistry from a leading university; MBA is considered a plus; + Strong leader with proven track record in initiating and leading change, developing strong teams while achieving and exceeding ambitious targets in a sustainable manner; + 7-15 years of experience in operational finance roles with increasing level and scope of responsibility; + People manager, able to lead and inspire large teams across multiple countries and geographies; + Solid knowledge of finance policies, processes and finance systems; with a track record of improving finance processes; + Strong project and change manager, with a natural drive to challenge the status quo, and able to initiate and lead change for sustainable results; + Good interpersonal, communication and team leadership skills; + Impressive track record of building strong internal and external business relationships; + Strong ability to communicate vision, strategies, issues, and action plans to senior management; + Track record of setting challenging goals and ensuring accountability for those goals in order to deliver results; + Ability to manage and prioritise workload to ensure appropriate controls while driving forward strategic 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! The Eurofins network of companies believes 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 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 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 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 2024, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6,95 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.