Operational Best Practice Senior Project Manager – Clinical Laboratory Operations Europe

Eurofins Clinical Diagnostics is a major player in laboratory medicine, offering high-quality diagnostic services that support physicians, hospitals, and patients across Europe. With a strong focus on scientific excellence, operational quality, and continuous improvement, Eurofins Clinical Diagnostics combines local laboratory expertise with the strength and scale of a global organisation.

Clinical diagnostic tests are a key factor in 70% of medical decisions. Our innovative tests help clinicians make the very best decisions to improve outcomes for patients, be it ensuring access to better treatments, reassuring individuals genetically predisposed to certain diseases or supporting women during pregnancy with non-invasive prenatal tests. 

About the Role

We are looking for a highly drivenOperational Best Practice (OBP) Senior Project Manager to lead complex, high-impact initiatives across a European clinical laboratory network. This is a proactive, hands-on role for an experienced project manager who identifies issues, develops end-to-end solutions, and drives implementation without waiting for projects to be assigned. The role plays a key part in operational turnaround, cost improvement, and change management within a service-oriented, healthcare laboratory environment.

This position requires close collaboration with local laboratories as well as global and country-level purchasing teams, strong Lean process expertise, an independent working style, and a data-driven mindset. Regular travel across Europe (25% or more) is expected.

Key Responsibilities

• Leadend-to-end project management for operational, transformation, and cost-improvement initiatives across European clinical laboratories
• Proactively identify operational issues and improvement opportunities; analyse root causes and propose robust, data-backed solutions
• Design, develop, and implementLean process improvements and standardised workflows within a service and laboratory environment
• Deliverchange management and operational turnaround initiatives, ensuring sustainable adoption of new processes
• Manage projects with significant financial impact, including cost improvement initiatives of€100k+ value
• Collaborate closely withglobal and local purchasing teams to support sourcing, cost optimisation, and operational efficiency
• Define KPIs, track performance, and ensuredata-driven decision-making throughout the project lifecycle
• Prepare succinct, high-quality written deliverables (memos, business cases, business plans, and recommendations) for senior leadership approval
• LeverageAI and digital tools to accelerate analysis, project execution, and decision-making
• Manage diverse stakeholders across countries, functions, and cultures, often without direct reporting authority
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and with measurable business impact

Required Experience and Education

• Minimum5 years of project management experience, ideally withPMP certification or equivalent
• Proven experience managingcost improvement projects with a minimum €100k financial impact
• Strong background inLean process improvement within aservice industry, with experience leading large-scale improvement initiatives
• Demonstrated experience leading projectsfrom concept to implementation, considering the broader business context to deliver optimal company-wide solutions
• Bachelor’s degree in a scientific discipline, preferablybiology, biochemistry, chemistry, medicine, or another healthcare-related field
• Previous experience in aservice industry, ideally healthcare, diagnostics, or laboratory-related

Data & Digital Skills

• Strong focus ondata-driven decision-making, KPI definition, and detailed data analysis
• Proven experience submittingwritten project proposals (≥ €100k value) to leadership and securing approval
• Advanced Excel skills
• Hands-on experience with commonly usedproject management software
• Practical use ofAI tools to improve speed, quality, and efficiency of project delivery

Language Requirements

• Business-fluent English (oral and written)
• Fluent French or Spanish (oral and written)

Key Competencies & Soft Skills

• Strong ability tomaintain timelines and push for results
• Open, can-do mindset with a proactive leadership approach
• Ability toinfluence without formal reporting authority
• Capable of managing bothpeople and numbers effectively
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Experience working ininternational and multicultural environments
• Pragmatic, hands-onget-things-done mentality
• High willingness to learn (laboratory workflows, regulations, billing, and operational constraints)
• Independent working style
• Very structured, organised, and detail-oriented
• Skilled at reconciling competing stakeholder needs and expectations
• Able to translate complex data intoclear, concise leadership-ready recommendations

Additional Requirements

• Willingness to travel25% or more within Europe
• Must live near awell-connected international airport (e.g., Madrid, Paris, Barcelona, Lyon, Dublin)

What We Offer

• A high-impact senior role with European visibility
• Direct influence on operational performance, cost efficiency, and transformation outcomes
• Exposure to senior leadership and cross-functional international teams
• A fast-paced, results-oriented environment focused on continuous improvement and measurable impact

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.