Regional Vice President - Eurofins Built Environment Testing Central

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 Built Environment Central Regional Vice President provides comprehensive management of all technical, business and administrative activities for a portfolio of laboratories in the Central Region of the United States. The RVP provides support to the laboratory management at all business units and is responsible for the overall quality, performance and profitability of the laboratories assigned to him/her as well as contributing to companywide initiatives to drive true network optimization across Eurofins Built Environment and Environment Testing USA. The RVP is also responsible for generating margin and revenue growth for the company at the business unit level by supporting and helping to develop business and market strategy plans.

• Manages labs in accordance with business plan and analyzes financial performance to meet the business objectives
• Conducts supervisory responsibilities with direct reports to foster and maintain strong staff performance
• Monitors progress of business units toward standardization objectives and key performance indicators (KPI's) to improve quality, financial performance, customer service and revenue growth
• Mentors, coaches and develops skills to upgrade analytical and business skills of laboratory managers
• Regularly communicates with employees concerning objectives, company direction and expectations to create a positive work environment and improve staff performance
• Prepares annual capital and operating budgets for business units to meet financial goals and objectives
• Facilitates local and company-wide initiatives and activities weekly to promote cooperation and consistency across their group and the company
• Supports all company policies and procedures to ensure compliance with standard operating procedures (SOPs)
• Meets with clients on a regular basis to evaluate lab performance and respond to changing customer requirements
• Develops and implements systems to identify and highlight significant trends or concerns. Actively looks at cost benefit analyses and pursues corrective actions where needed
• Acts as key advisor to the Built Environment SVP and to the Eurofins Environment Testing USA Executive Management Team
• Provides weekly and monthly reports to the Built Environment SVP to ensure that goals and objectives are being achieved and to recognize opportunities for development
• Responsible for establishing new business developments and additive growth to meet financial objectives
• Assists laboratory management personnel with operational issues including contract negotiations, sales and service issues, customer relations, and key proposals in order to ensure smooth operating systems and meet customer needs
• Routine travel to laboratory locations and client sites as required
• Reviews audit findings and ensures BUMa (Business Unit Manager)/Lab Directors are implementing corrective actions as needed to maintain compliance
• Participates in corporate and group lab meetings to support key Eurofins environment Testing USA’s initiatives
• Responsible for upholding and enforcing Company policies, including but not limited to, Quality, Safety, Standard Operating Procedures, Ethics, and Harassment
• Collaborates with the Business Controller and HR Business Partner to discuss and review manpower regularly
• Collaborates with HR Business Partner to ensure that all policies and programs are applied consistently throughout all facilities
• Additional duties as assigned

• BS/BA Degree in Chemistry or Business required; MBA preferred.
• 5+ years Environmental Laboratory management experience
• Has managed a $50 Million+ Revenue business with full P&L Responsibility
• Minimum 3 years profit and loss responsibility
• Lab Testing Operations experience
• Project Management experience
• Profit and Loss responsibilities
• Financial Management
• Working knowledge of Chemistry and Business Finance
• Managing multiple locations/departments
• Excellent communication/presentation skills
• Problem-solving skills
• Ability to develop and enforce policies and operating practices
• Strong decision-making abilities – and strong record of following through on executing decisions made
• Ability to communicate at all levels of the organization
• Leadership skills and experiences
• Team Building skills and experiences
• Communication skills – both written and oral
• Presentation skills including Public Speaking experience
• Ability to influence others
• Ability to multitask
• Ability to function under high stress and/or tense environments
• Authorization to work in the US without restriction or sponsorship

Professional working proficiency in English is a requirement, including the ability to read, write and speak 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! 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 Eurofins Scientific 2/2 March 2023 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 61,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 900 laboratories in 61 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 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

We do not offer Visa Sponsorship for this role.

Eurofins USA Environment Testing is a Disabled and Veteran Equal Employment Opportunity employer.