Eurofins

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Job Description

Eurofins MicroSafe Laboratories in Leiden is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead complex scientific and technical projects within our GMP certified analytical laboratory. In this role, you will guide multidisciplinary teams through the full project lifecycle, from defining requirements and scope to experimental execution, validation and deployment. You collaborate with internal experts and external partners to ensure alignment with scientific objectives, regulatory expectations, and organizational priorities, while maintaining rigorous project management processes and ensuring the highest quality of experimental data and documentation.

Responsibilities

Establish project teams for new projects, including laboratory technicians, subject matter experts and logistics;

Provide a solid project management workflow with clear organization and scientific context;

Manage timeline development, scope definition, budget forecasting, and risk mitigation;

Continuously assess project progress using data‑driven metrics, adjust scope, timelines, or resource allocation to ensure scientific and operational requirements are met;

Establish and maintain strong relationships with clients and stakeholders, providing transparent communication on project status, risks, and changes;

Develop and maintain structured processes for managing scope throughout the scientific project lifecycle, ensuring adherence to quality, reproducibility, and performance standards;

Oversee the organization and integrity of experimental data, research documentation and multi‑stream project information;

Communicate project milestones, outcomes, and risks to leadership; escalating issues when necessary in accordance with project protocols;

Be able to set up new Project Management processes.

As a key connector between clients, stakeholders, and laboratory teams, you will help shape scientific output with unwavering quality by optimizing laboratory and personnel resources, fostering strong team performance, and contributing to the development of innovative testing strategies for biopharma products. This is an opportunity to make meaningful impact within a collaborative, forward thinking environment at the Leiden BioScience Park.

Qualifications

Bachelor or Master in Life Sciences, Molecular Biology, or a related field;

Extensive Project Management training;

Professional certification such as CAPM, PMP or PRINCE2 is considered a plus;

Four or more years of project management experience in a scientific, technical, or research‑intensive environment in GMP;

Strong attention to detail, particularly regarding timelines, resource planning, and compliance with scientific or regulatory standards, such as USP, EP, JP;

Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with scientists, engineers, and leadership across multiple levels of the organization;

Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to translate complex scientific concepts for diverse audiences;

Dutch is considered a plus;

Strong presentation skills, including communicating data‑driven insights.

Additional Information

Eurofins BioPharma Product Testing Leiden B.V.: A world of possibilities

This position is based at Eurofins BioPharma Product Testing Leiden on the Bio Science Park in Leiden. We have a close-knit team where collegiality and collaboration come first. We offer a responsible and challenging position within the team with room for your own ideas and input. Eurofins BioPharma Product Testing Leiden also offers:

A competitive salary;

Flexible working hours;

25 days of vacation with the option to purchase 7 additional days (based on a fulltime contract);

Travel allowance of 23 cents net per kilometer. Are you traveling by public transport? Then your travel expenses will be fully reimbursed via NS Business Card;

Participation in a pension scheme with 50% contribution by Eurofins;

Each month, you accumulate a choice budget balance of 8.5% of your gross salary. This includes, among other things, holiday pay and a year-end bonus. You can choose to have this amount paid out, or you can use it to buy extra days off, for example. You choose what suits you best;

Discount on additional health insurance;

Tax benefit via FiscFree when purchasing various products and services via your gross salary, such as a bicycle, sports contribution, fitness, mobile telephony, computers & tablets or a weekend away;

Professional training and opportunities for training and development;

Training options via the online learning platform Good Habitz.

Working at Eurofins BioPharma Product Testing Leiden offers you the flexibility and personal touch of working in a medium sized and dynamic company, whilst also allowing you to benefit from having Eurofins as a parent company. Our ambitious growth plans provide ample opportunities for our employees:

Diverse developmental opportunities within the organization;

A large client portfolio ensures a lot of diversity in your work.

More about Eurofins Scientific

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 works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate. Eurofins believes it is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies.

In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 62,000 staff across a network of more than 1000 independent companies in over 62 countries and operating more than 900 laboratories. Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services, as one of the leading global emerging players in specialised clinical diagnostics testing.

In 2025, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 7.296 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

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