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

As Regional European Business Line Controller - Performance Management, you will be a strategic partner to the Regional Business Line Leader and a key member of the management team.

You will lead the performance management agenda across a European scope, driving profitability, operational efficiency, and financial insight in a high-volume, low-margin environment.

This role requires a sharp analytical mind, strong business acumen, and the ability to influence and coach a community of Controllers across clusters and countries.

Key Responsibilities

Serve as a trusted advisor to the Regional Business Line Leader, proactively challenging and stimulating strategic thinking.Lead budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning processes with precision and speed.Conduct detailed profitability analyses, including price and volume effects, operational and overhead cost analysis, and margin calculation.Drive KPI-based performance management, develop and monitor action plans, and ensure alignment with business objectives.Standardize variable cost structures and purchasing margin calculations across entities.Work closely with operational teams to detect inefficiencies and identify improvement opportunities.Lead automation and digitalization initiatives to enhance data handling and reporting efficiency.Influence and coach a network of Controllers across Europe, fostering a culture of performance and continuous improvement.Support group-level initiatives and contribute to the development of robust financial and analytical systems.

Qualifications

 

Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, or Business Administration.Over + 10 years of experience in a similar role as Business Performance Controller ideally in a high volume, low margin industry.Strong analytical skills and business acumen, with a proven ability to manipulate and interpret large datasets efficiently.Willingness and ability to travel regularly across Europe.

 

Personal skills

Quick-thinking, incisive, and persuasive, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.Proactive and results-oriented, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.Structured and efficient, with a high capacity for detail and precision.Curious and engaged, eager to learn and continuously improve.A natural coach and challenger, capable of elevating the performance of others.A strong communicator, fluent in English, with the ability to engage across cultures and functions.

Location: Paris or Brussels (or open to other European cities)

Travel requirement: regular business trips across Europe to visit laboratoriesLanguage requirement: Fluent English (mandatory for international scope)

 

Why Join Us

Be at the heart of strategic decision-making in a dynamic, international environment.

Drive impactful change and performance improvement across multiple countries.

Collaborate with a passionate and high-performing leadership team.

Enjoy a role that combines strategic influence, operational depth, and international exposure.

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!  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.

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 on our Careers 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 37 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to ca. 63,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 950 laboratories in over 1,000 companies across 60 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.