Junior IT Business Analyst - hybrid work in Brussels after the onboarding period

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.

In a nutshell

Due to the increasing workload following Eurofins growth and sales and production process standardisation activities, we are looking for a Junior IT Business Analyst within a team responsible for an in-house developed application.

The main objective of this position is to follow up on the complete lifecycle of incidents, bug reports and request for changes for the application under your responsibility. This includes detailing user story descriptions and their acceptance criteria for new topics to be implemented, following up on their development, testing and ensuring a proper end-user documentation.

Where will you be based and what business will you support?

You will support our business in Brussels and have a hybrid work arrangement, with 3 days per week of on-site work after the onboarding period of one month. For the onboarding period, it will be a full on-site position, with 5 days per week in the office.

Our office location is: 48 Avenue Herrmann-Debroux B-1160, Brussels.

How can you help us? 

As a Junior IT Business Analyst, you will actively interact with Product Owners and other stakeholders to:

• Writing of clear and well-structured specifications (user stories) for bugs and new functionalities including their mock-ups and detailed acceptance criteria;
• Following up user stories of the 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;
• Closely interacting with QA team members during acceptance criteria refinement meetings, test case reviews, sprint demo meetings;
• Aligning with key stakeholders on design proposals;
• Assisting Business Analysts in UML modelling and service contract creation and review;
• Providing assistance to the second line support of the application;
• Managing bug reports and request for changes;
• Actively participating and collaborating within the application’s international scrums teams;
• Assisting with the qualification of releases in close cooperation with the program's release management team and key stakeholders;
• Managing end user documentation with a high-quality level: online help, release notes, customer forum, release presentations, etc.

What can we do for you?

We are offering the following:

• Challenges within a multi-cultural and cross-regional team as part of the international and fast-growing Eurofins organisation;
• A dynamic working environment with a good team spirit where personal development and growth are encouraged;
• Responsibilities for key applications of Eurofins;
• In a fast-growing group, successful team members are being offered increased areas of responsibility (within the Program and the Eurofins Group);
• Extensive on-the-job coaching;
• Attractive salary package with extra-legal benefits.

• 1-2 years of professional experience within Software Development teams;
• Understanding of and experience with UML is strong asset;
• Knowledge of SQL is a strong asset;
• First experience with Scrum is a plus;
• Knowledge of Service-Oriented-Architecture (SOA) is a plus;
• Experience with software development management tools (e.g. TFS) is an advantage;
• Excellent critical thinking and detail-orientated skills;
• Fluent English communication skills (written/oral) required. Knowledge of another language is a plus.

What else should I know? 

As the role and Eurofins' IT Talent Acquisition team are international, please ensure to submit your application in English.

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! The Eurofins network of companies believes 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 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.