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

In a nutshell

We are looking for an IT Business Analyst & Project Deployment Coordinator to support a strategic application used by a wide group of Eurofins companies across the world, and integrated by numerous other Eurofins applications used within Eurofins’ Sales and Production processes.

You will primarily support the Product Owner with the “green-field” to consider transitioning and integration constraints, and development of the application, while at the same time support smooth deployments of the application within the Eurofins companies. This includes activities related to User Requirement and User Story analysis and specification and active participation in Scrum Ceremonies ensuring qualitative developments. Activities related to deployments covers organising qualitative stakeholder communication and training, organising and follow up of all required migration activities, etc.

IT Business Analyst ‑ Specific Assignments:

• Collect, analyse and formalise user requirements from backlog, key group documents and process descriptions, from key stakeholders through workshops, emails, interviews, etc.;
• Write clear and well-structured specifications (user stories) for prioritised functionalities/projects including their mock-ups and detailed acceptance criteria;
• Follow up on your projects, together with scrum team you are involved in, including: user story priority management, preparing and leading various scrum meetings, assisting developers and QA team members during user story implementation phase;
• Collaborate with business analysts within the team to successfully deliver complex projects;
• Coach other business analysts with the purpose of sharing knowledge, best practices and expertise;
• Closely interact with QA team members during acceptance criteria refinement meetings, test case reviews, sprint demo meetings;
• Align with project stakeholders on design proposals;
• Actively participate and collaborate within the application’s international scrums teams;
• Assist Business Analysts in UML modelling and service contract creation and review;
• Assist with the qualification of releases in close cooperation with the program's release management team and key stakeholders;
• Manage bug reports and request for changes;
• Prepare and deliver presentations and training sessions on end-users’ features;
• Manage end user documentation with a high quality level: online help, release notes, customer forum, release presentations, etc.

Project Deployment Coordinator ‑ Specific Assignments:

• Perform stakeholder analysis;
• Define and maintain communication plan;
• Meet expectations set by Product Owner defining deployment actions, priorities, etc.;
• Define, organise, and follow up all activities required ensuring smooth application deployments across the various businesses;
• Maintain standardised deployment action plan and consider continuous improvements of it;
• Align with team colleagues and co-operate in the creation of all required stakeholders’ communication (e.g., training sessions, end-user documentation tools, release updates, etc.);
• Support the alignment with other applications’ responsible;
• Define, follow up and support migration activities required as part of the deployment projects;
• Closely follow up on defined actions list until their completion;
• Perform regular status updates for each deployment project to deployment project stakeholders and the internal program management;
• Assist the second line support of the application.

Qualifications

Are you our kind of extraordinary?

• Bachelor or Master's Degree in Science, Engineering, IT, etc. or equivalent;
• 3 to 5 years of experience in a similar role, as an IT Business Analyst OR Deployment Manager OR Project Coordinator;
• Experience in software implementation methodologies is required;
• Experience in professional environments with complex system integrations is a strong asset;
• Experience in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) environment is a strong asset;
• Experience with Scrum is a plus;
• Understanding of and experience with UML is an asset;
• Knowledge of SQL is an asset;
• Experience in Project Deployments, Product Release methods and activities is a plus;
• Clear and concise documentation and specification skills;
• Fluent English communication skills (written/oral) required. Knowledge of another language is a plus.

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! Eurofins network of companies believe 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 also 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 is the 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 one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations. 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 63,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of over 950 laboratories in 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.