Head of Environment Testing Italy

Eurofins is an international network of independent life sciences companies, 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 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 its companies around the world.

Eurofins Environment Testing laboratories provide market-leading and accessible laboratory testing, monitoring and consultancy services for water, air, soil, waste, building products and industrial hygiene applications, enabling you to make informed and credible decisions related to health and the environment.

The Head of Environment Testing Italy is responsible for providing strategic leadership for the Environment Testing companies in the country. The candidate will be working with Managing Directors to establish long-range goals, scientific and commercial strategies, plans and policies.

He/she will develop and execute a strategy to establish and grow Eurofins presence in the Environment Testing market in in Italy building a leading position in targeted market segments within 3-5 years including: 

• Organic development of current companies while significantly strengthening profitability; 

• Optimization of the cost base leveraging benchmarking and purchasing power; 

• Implementation of change management across the organization to increase performance and transparency.  

Regular M&A activities are also part of the scope and highlight the multi-faceted role. 

Experience: 

• Minimum of 5 years of full P&L responsibility for a complex, multi-site business

• Proven ability to implement change across complex organization, overcome objections and  create change-agents at all levels 

• Ability to demonstrate strong leadership and create relations of trust with teams, internal & external stakeholder and to lead them successfully through period of changes  

• Ability to create a vision and move the organization through transparent and team approach to translate strategy into business results 

 Education: 

• Undergraduate degree required in the area of Business Administration, Engineering or Life Sciences 

• Masters or PhD degree highly preferred 

Languages:

Fluent Italian and English is required

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: 

• Development of sales & business strategy 
• Proven experience in business turnaround

• Proven success in a growth-oriented business 

• Strong experience in identification of merger & acquisition targets, as well as business integration   

• Entrepreneurial mindset 

• Strong financial acumen 

• People leadership 

• Ambitious  

• Self-starter 

We support your development! Do you feel like 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.

Find out more on our Careers page: https://careers.eurofins.com/

Company description: Eurofins Scientific is an international network of independent life sciences companies, 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 under 40 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 65,000 employees across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of over 950 laboratories in over 1,000 independent companies across 59 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.

The Eurofins network generated EUR 7.296 billion revenues in FY 2025, and has been one of the fastest growing listed European companies for almost three decades.