Transition Manager

Job Description

• Planning and execution of project/transition activities, including ERP and other tools implementation, managing day to day delivery against key project/transition milestones and reporting on progress
• Responsibility for project Risk and Issues management, acting as first line of mitigation for issues
• Building detailed transition & implementation plan in cooperation with all parties who provide input (e.g. GPOs)
• Transition project management in line with or above agreed project or service level objectives by the target date
• Development/maintenance of effective commercial awareness of SSC processes and standards
• Stakeholders management – communication
• Keeping all parties informed

Qualifications

Personal skills

• Strong customer-focused, team-oriented communication and facilitation skills with emphasis on building lasting, trusted partnerships through written and verbal communications with groups of senior internal and/or client staff
• Ability to maintain and operate the Governance framework at Senior Management level
• Ability to drive progress within a multifunctional team
• Investigative and analytical skill set to think problems/circumstances through and develop credible plans to address, thoroughly analyzing the “what if” scenarios
• Ability to actively oversee and improve change processes
• Ability to identify specific implementation risks and lead solutions, solution-based attitude, strong ability to “think outside the box”
• Effective and efficient performance in a deadline-driven environment in order to meet client expectations
• Comfortable in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of autonomy and accountability

Requirements

• Proficiency with Microsoft office tools
• Good working knowledge of Project Management tools
• Experience with Project Management methodologies like PMI, Prince2, Agile PM and ITIL

Education

• Minimum BA degree required

Language skills

• English (proficient written and spoken, min. C1)
• Any additional language would be an asset 

Previous experience

• Minimum 24 months of experience in a similar position

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 over 65,000 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.