Operations Project Manager (Remote In Romania)

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Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company with over 61,000 employees, approximately 1,000 laboratories across 61 countries, 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.
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SUMMARY OF POSITION AND OBJECTIVES:
Eurofins is currently applying new IT and its infrastructure strategy changes to face new security challenges across regions. A key aspect is related to the changes of its Information Systems in which the central and regional web-based Marketing & Offer applications are essentials. The main objective of this position is to support the IT Solutions Team for implementing practical changes and managing operation projects (routine and evolution).
POSITION & OBJECTIVES:
The candidate will be

• Part of the a team of 13 persons and be involved, in the environments, configuration, build, packaging, operating procedures and release activities in the realm of the S solutions portfolio.
• Be the operation partner of Development team and provide operation related services.
• Managing operation projects to avoid risks, ensure delivery quality and timeframe.
• Ensure the projects deliveries can be well integrated into release process.
• Involved in projects of transition to Eurofins operation teams.
• Joining an IT team in Romania and always in contact with teams in the other locations(as One Team in Belgium, India, Ireland and China).
• Involve in and contribute to operation evolution(definition and execution of process, guideline and best practices etc) to align with new challenges.
  

The Candidate is expected to:

• Manage operation projects together with other members and Eurofins Operations teams, ensure delivery and timeframe. Facilitate status meeting with Team Managers(PO, Development, PMO, AERO etc).
• Be involved in and contribute to the definition of process, guideline and best practices.
• Contribute to technical activities upon priorities defined by Team Manager.
• Contribute the the maintenance of System and Architectural documentation in the scope of theTeam
• Provide some project related periodical and/or emergency support (i.e. on-call service).
• Provide project related supports as Operation Partner to Application Scrum Teams
• Embrace more generally:
• high quality practices and processes in order to guarantee excellent state and smooth transitions for department's programs in all environments (development to production).
• high quality engineering and guidelines of the target solutions,
• agile practices and well-known modelisation practices such as UML
  

Specific assignments:

• In charge of planning projects, risks evaluation & prevention, closely follow up and track project status, execute the plan, ensure the delivery quality and timeframe.
• Build up relationship with Eurofins operation teams and facilitate smooth coordination and communication.
• Ensure projects can be well integrated with Release. Prevent conflict and impact to releases.
• Collaborate closely with Functional, Development and Testing team to ensure our platforms are suiting the needs, are monitored and benefit from permanent improvements.
• Ensure the required tasks and support will be aligned with Operation Guideline and Best practices.
• Work on configuration and procedures for the various steps of the platform lifecycle (provisioning, prerequisites, deployment/upgrade, monitoring and support).
• Create and maintain operational documentation that describes the situation and ensure that documentation of processes is aligned.
• Maintain up to date the Components library and CMDB describing each platform (development/ testing, QA/UAT, production etc.)
• Provide project related L3 support for deployment and configuration related issues. Ensure superior quality.
• Handle platform deployment and configuration automation if required.
  

OTHER ASSIGNMENTS :

• Ensure follow-up to Site Manager and Team Manager on a regular basis and as often as requested.
• Acquire rapidly a working knowledge of Eurofins systems, starting with , underlying concepts and models, as well as the processes and practices of the team.
• Deepen that knowledge on a continuous basis, guided by the most pressing needs of assigned functions.
• Develop appropriate working relationships with IT and non-IT target groups in Eurofins. Actively support reuse and sharing within the wider community.
  

Calificări
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
REQUIRED PROFILE :
Personal Skills :

• Very good communication and interpersonal relation skills in an international environment.
• Accurate in project and operation activities : cannot bear unaligned things if they are supposed to be similar, will take the time to review/reread its email. Do not forget punctuation when writing. Has clear structure in mind (for instance meaningful and structured titles and subtitles when writing a document etc.)
• Good Team player.
• Willing to explore new technologies, processes and functional areas.
• Open minded on the subject.
  

Initial Education Background :
Computing Science or relevant : Master’s degree preferred else good Bachelor’s degree.
Language skills and level expected :
English (Fluent) required
Type and duration of previous experience :
Ideally rich experiences a PM, IT Operation position in an international environment.
Required knowledge (about technkcal knowledge, it’s not a must as an expert but to be practical to lead and audit Project effciently.) :

• PMP certification is a plus.
• ITIL certification is a plus.
• Knoweldge/Experience of Scrum Methodolgoy is a plus
• Knoweldge/Experience of CMDB (Configuration Management Database), System architecture, platform blueprints, software configuration, Operations activities (procurement, installation, monitoring and support etc.) is a plus.
• Knoweldge/Experience of scripting (VTL, powershell, etc.) is a plus
• Knowledge/Experience of Microsoft Azure Cloud is a plus.
• Knoweldge/Experience of SQL or even T-SQL is a plus.
• Knowledge/Experience of Octopus is a plus.
• Knowledge/Experience of Terraform is a plus
• Knoweldge/Experience of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS is a plus.
• Knoweldge/Experience of UML is a plus.
• Knoweldge/Experience of SOA and/or messaging middleware is a plus
  

Informații suplimentare
Want to know more about us?
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 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 37 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 2022, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.