Job
- Level
- Lead
- Job Feld
- IT, System, DevOps
- Anstellung
- Vollzeit
- Vertragsart
- Unbefristetes Dienstverhältnis
- Ort
- Hamburg
- Arbeitsmodell
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Zusammenfassung
In dieser Rolle übernimmst du die Leitung der IT-Landschaft in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, entwickelst lokale IT-Teams und integrierst zentrale IT-Funktionen zur Unterstützung von 1.700 Mitarbeitern und 20 Labors.
Deine Rolle im Team
- As IT Director DACH, you will take the lead in shaping and coordinating the regional IT landscape across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
- You'll become the key connection between local business operations and Eurofins' central IT organization, helping ensure that technology supports both operational excellence and long-term strategic goals.
- In this role, you will oversee an IT organization of approximately 50-60 professionals supporting 20 laboratories across 12 locations in 3 countries, serving around 1,700 employees.
- Your leadership will directly influence business continuity in a fast-paced, business-critical environment where system availability is essential and downtime can immediately impact operations.
- You will:
- Guide and develop local IT teams through their team leaders, fostering collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Help local teams successfully integrate with central IT functions, driving alignment with group-wide platforms, standards, and delivery models.
- Act as the primary IT coordination and escalation point for the DACH organization.
- Support the transition toward a more centralized IT operating model by simplifying processes, reducing fragmentation, and encouraging consistent ways of working.
- Lead change management initiatives and ensure successful adoption of centrally delivered systems and services.
- Work closely with business stakeholders and European IT teams to translate operational needs into effective IT solutions.
- Balance local business priorities with group-wide governance, ensuring both flexibility and standardization where needed.
- Operate within a matrix organization, reporting directly to the National Business Line Leader with a dotted-line reporting relationship to the IT Director Food Europe.
- This is an opportunity for you to influence large-scale IT transformation while remaining close to the operational realities of a highly dynamic laboratory environment.
Unsere Erwartungen an dich
Qualifikationen
- To succeed in this role, you bring both strong leadership capabilities and the ability to navigate complex organizational structures coming from:
- A proven track record of managing multiple teams and leading organizational transformation initiatives.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, allowing you to build trust across business and IT functions.
- Solid knowledge of enterprise applications, IT infrastructure, and operational IT platforms.
- Confidence working within structured governance models where collaboration with central functions is essential.
- A deep understanding of high-availability, 24/7 operational environments and the critical business impact of IT stability and system uptime.
- You are someone who can combine strategic thinking with hands-on leadership, bringing clarity, structure, and momentum to complex IT environments.
Erfahrung
- Extensive experience in senior IT leadership roles within centralized or matrix organizations.
- Strong financial and operational awareness, including experience with IT budgeting, cost management, and financial steering.
Unser Angebot
- 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!
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Eurofins Scientific
Eurofins bietet seinen weltweiten Kunden aus verschiedensten Branchen einzigartige Analyse-Dienstleistungen an. Das Unternehmen ist spezialisiert auf Lebensmittel-, Umwelt-, pharmazeutische und kosmetische Produkte sowie agrarwissenschaftliche Forschungs-Dienstleistungen (CRO) und gilt als Marktführer.
Description
- Unternehmensgröße
- 50-249 Employees
- Unternehmenstyp
- Etablierte Firma
- Arbeitsmodell
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Branche
- Pharma, Chemie, Biotech, Wissenschaft, Forschung
IT Director DACH
- Ort
- Hamburg
- Arbeitsmodell
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversität
- Für alle Personen geeignet (m/w/d)
- Nur Englisch
- Nur Englisch erforderlich
