Chief Information Officer (CIO) in Brussels, Belgium

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.

The Eurofins network is seeking a Chief Information Officer (CIO) to provide sound technical leadership and drive our technological vision across the business. This role requires strategic thinking and strong business acumen to guide the direction of our IT.

In a fast-paced, growing, and ever-changing business environment, IT plays a crucial role in achieving our objectives. As CIO, you will define and execute the IT governance vision, technological strategy, and long-term roadmap. You will oversee IT infrastructure, security, solutions, and operations while contributing to strategic decisions.

Your challenge is to lead an agile and scalable IT organisation, ensuring that technologies are used efficiently, securely, and cost-effectively. You will oversee the design and implementation of IT blueprints across the Eurofins network’s decentralised regional organisations. As the head of the department’s project portfolio, you will ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions while developing KPIs and metrics to evaluate new systems and infrastructure.

A key part of the role is to foster a positive environment by streamlining processes, encouraging innovation, and promoting internal talent. You will also play a critical role in identifying and attracting new talent to strengthen the organisation as it grows.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

• Previous experience as a CIO, CTO, or in a similar leadership role

• Extensive experience in architecting and developing enterprise-level technology roadmaps

• High analytic skills with the ability to translate strategic business decisions into quantitative insights

• Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and take ownership of initiatives

• Strong leadership and management experience, with a proven track record of leading high-performing teams

• Up-to-date knowledge on current technological trends and being well-versed in a variety of business concepts

WHY JOIN US

Lead the technological future of the Eurofins network and make a lasting impact. If you’re a visionary tech leader ready for a new challenge, apply today!

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 believe 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 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 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 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.