IT Director DACH - Food & Agro Testing

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.

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 the Eurofins network’s central IT organisation, helping to ensure that technology supports both operational excellence and long-term strategic goals.

In this role, you will oversee an IT organisation 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 organisation.
• Support the transition toward a more centralised 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 standardisation where needed.
• Operate within a matrix organisation, 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.

To succeed in this role, you should bring both strong leadership capabilities and the ability to navigate complex organisational structures, ideally gained through:

• Extensive experience in senior IT leadership roles within centralised or matrix organisations.
• A proven track record of managing multiple teams and leading organisational 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.
• Strong financial and operational awareness, including experience with IT budgeting, cost management, and financial steering.
• 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.
• Fluent English and German is a must.

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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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 37 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to ca. 63,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 950 laboratories in over 1,000 companies across 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.