Senior Business Analyst

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 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 over 37 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 65,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 950 laboratories in over 1,000 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.

In 2024, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.95 billion; and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

As Business Analyst you will work among the program eLIMS-NG, which is a suite of LIMS integrated applications supporting testing business in our laboratories worldwide.

Our teams and businesses are spread over different geographical areas and hence are multi-cultural. We strive to standardize business processes across these locations by assessing and analyzing their business needs. BAs are in the center of this effort to understand the lab processes, derive well-defined Business Requirements and lead them to delivery.

Main missions of the Business Analyst:

· Serves as the intermediary between the business stakeholders and the Product Delivery team, thus proactively communicates and collaborates with both sides.

· Drives and challenges business representatives (Business Process Expert) on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans.

· Contributes to the vision of eLIMS-NG as a Product, and aims at business satisfaction

· Is responsible for identifying new Business Requirements (coming directly from business stakeholders, KGDs, BPDs, Problems raised from Production, BRAB, internal assessment, etc.)

· As Business Process Owner:

o Is responsible for the evolution of Business Processes, described in Business Process Documents, in alignment with business and IT stakeholders. Identify areas of improvement.

o Identifies Business Requirements derived from Business Processes.

o Assesses the priority of underlying Business Requirements and contributes to their incorporation into the Product Roadmap.

As Business Requirement Owner or delegate:

o Is responsible for the elicitation of the Business Requirement and proper definition of its perimeter.

o Captures and describes non-functional requirements related to a Business Process (linked to performance, scalability, GUI aspects, …)

o Is knowledgeable about business Use Cases applicable to a Business Requirement.

o Calls for BPD (Business Process Document) and/or KGD (Key Group Document) updates when a requirement is not supported by already defined underlying concepts and processes.

o Conducts the approval of Business Requirement with business stakeholders and/or Business Requirement Advisory Board (BRAB).

o Aligns with Functional Architecture team to enable a functional design of the BR.

o Splits the Business Requirement into detailed User Requirements.

o Ensures with business stakeholders that Business Requirement breakdown represent a correct applicative answer to the need.

o Collaborates very closely with Product Delivery team (Product Owners and/or Functional Analysts) to ensure User Requirements are clear, understood and delivered in an appropriate way.

o Is responsible for ensuring that User Requirements delivered by Product Delivery team fit the actual business need.

You should have:

· Strong demonstrable skills in building business process models

· Strong facilitation and listening skills, with results oriented approach

· Ability to collaborate with cross-functional and multi-cultural teams

· Ability to write functional documentation where required

· Efficient time management and high-quality attitude

· Very good English language skills spelling/writing

· Very good team and communication skills

· Personal qualities: autonomous, ability to summarize, organized, pedagogue

In addition, experience in life science domain and/or LIMS systems will be a plus. A hands-on experience of working in a lab is highly valuable.

 

Ideally you should have a master degree in Scientific, IT or an Engineering Discipline, with proven track record as an Agile Business Analyst or Product Owner.

Soft skills:

• Strong interpersonal relation skills: diplomatic, patient,
• Good communicator in an international environment.
• Keen eye for details be passionate for technical accuracy.
• Eager to learn continuously: new tech, processes, and functional knowledge.
• Position entails some travel.