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Managing Director Sensory

2 months ago


Reading Berkshire, United Kingdom Eurofins Full time

Do you want to develop your career in an international company with a multicultural environment working with the biggest local and global organisations in FMCG? If so, this could be the right opportunity for you

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 companie s.

Our international sensory and consumer research business specialises in food, beverages, cosmetics, personal care, and other consumer products. We have 19 proprietary state-of-the-art facilities across France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, United Kingdom, Morocco, China and the USA, and cover more than 65 countries through our network of approved partners.

Job Description

In a nutshell: Are you committed to being an inspiring leader? Can you help grow our Sensory and Consumer Research business whilst driving commercial and operational excellence? Do you have experience either within the Testing sector or in a market research agency? Do you have experience managing significant revenue and large teams? Are you based in the UK? Then this might be the role for you

We are looking for a Managing Director with experience in the areas of market research, project acquisition, customer service, consulting, personnel management, and administration. You will join the team at one of our three sites and help drive forward the team and the company

What team will I be part of? You will be part of the leadership team based in the UK, reporting to the International Leader for Sensory & Consumer Research.

As a Managing Director you will:

Lead our Sensory & Consumer Research business in the UK, which consists of 3 sites and a team of 60+ people.

Develop a high-quality strategic plan to expand the business and position in the UK market.

Lead and facilitate the sales & marketing activities and become a trusted and reliable partner to customers.

Drive operational excellence , continuous improvement, productivity and bottom-line results, providing hands on support on statistics, analysis and interpretation of results, visualising and client report presentation.

Ensure that relationships with all clients are positive , with high levels of customer satisfaction in place. Attend and lead meetings as needed alongside the Commercial team, with key clients and develop in depth knowledge of customer requirements.

Support and develop innovative sensory and consumer research solutions for our clients.

Initiate and drive change , setting up action plans with clear-cut distribution of responsibilities.

Improve the technical and scientific aspects of the business units by ensuring the appropriate development and application of new techniques and business processes.

Hire, motivate, develop and retain excellent Business Unit Managers and department heads.

Qualifications

​​​​​​ Are you our kind of extraordinary?

You are skilled in project management and developing and implementing a sales & business strategy in a consumer research, sensory or market research organisation. You have solid financial acumen, good communication skills and resilience.

Background: You bring a minimum of 3 years of leadership experience, of which at least 1 year has been in a P&L management role. You have demonstrated experience of facilitating growth, operational improvement and motivating teams of 20+ people.

Education: You have a Bachelors degree or diploma in food science, statistics, economics or any other relevant discipline.

Language: Proficiency in English is a must.

Location: You are based in the United Kingdom and able to work from our offices near London or Nottingham and can travel between our 3 offices when needed.

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:

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 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to ca. 62,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 900 laboratories in 62 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 2023, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6,515 million, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.