Head of Agroscience Services Field Europe

Job Description

The Head of Agroscience Services Field Europe leads the CRO industry’s largest field station network across Europe, 30–40 sites and ~300 employees. The role drives strategic transformation, operational excellence and growth in an evolving agroscience market. This position is a key leadership role within Eurofins Agroscience Services, reporting to the Head of Agroscience Services Europe, offering substantial autonomy and the mandate to accelerate innovation, integration, and performance.

Strategic & Commercial Leadership

• Define and execute the European Agroscience Services Field strategy.
• Drive profitable growth and market share expansion, with a strong focus on service quality and strategic and key accounts.
• Position and evolve the service portfolio to anticipate regulatory changes, customer needs, and market trends.
• Partner with Company Managing Directors and Boards to ensure legal complance, set long‑term objectives, scientific direction, and commercial priorities.
• Act as Director or Board Member for companies on scope of responsibility as required.

Operational & P&L Ownership

• Maintain full accountability for P&L performance, including revenue growth, margin, cost control, and capital discipline.
• Translate commercial strategy into concrete operational levers, ensuring efficient, scalable, and profitable service delivery across laboratories.
• Guide and support Field Services business leaders in delivering high-quality service and achieving best-in class customer satisfaction.
• Identify and drive structural performance improvements, combining entrepreneurial mindset with operational discipline.

People & Leadership

• Lead change by role modeling transformational leadership.
• Ensure the business is led by high‑calibre leaders; develop, coach, and succession‑plan key management talent.
• Foster open communication, accountability, and performance culture across countries and sites.

Qualifications

• University degree (MSc) in agriculture or related field; MBA is an advantage
• Over 10 years of experience successfully leading teams and managing full P&L responsibility
• Commercial skills and customer experience (preferably in agricultural services)
• Fluent English at negotiation level (spoken & written)
• Key personal competencies: transformational leadership, maturity, integrity, organization-first mindset
• Intercultural competence and proven experience working within international networks and cross-cultural environments
• Transparent, inclusive leadership style; strong listening and interpersonal skills; able to navigate complex environments
• Challenges status quo constructively and inspires creativity and engagement
• Able to attract, unite, and retain people around shared values
• Deep understanding of agriculture (“comfortable in rubber boots”) and able to represent the business effectively at headquarters
• Based near one of the sites; willingness to travel 40–60% (2–3 days/week)
• Experience in the seed business is advantageous 

Additional Information

We support your development! Do you feel like 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.

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Company description: Eurofins Scientific is an international network of independent life sciences companies, 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 under 40 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 65,000 employees across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of over 950 laboratories in over 1,000 independent companies across 59 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.

The Eurofins network generated EUR 7.296 billion revenues in FY 2025, and has been one of the fastest growing listed European companies for almost three decades.