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 58,000 staff across a network of more than 1000 independent companies in over 54 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 2021, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Chemtest is part of Eurofins; we are an award winning company providing routine analytical services and bespoke specialist testing throughout the UK, Ireland and Europe. Our staff are employed across a number of strategically placed locations, all utilising the latest technologies. Our laboratories are UKAS accredited to ISO/IEC 17025:2005 and, where applicable the Environment Agency MCERTS Performance Standard for soils.

As IT Business Analyst for Eurofins Environment Testing UK, you will be responsible for analysing business processes, working with software development teams and implementation of software solutions. You will be responsible for working with local and global teams as part of project deployment across UK Laboratories.

Working as part of a dynamic local IT Team. You will work with business units from around the UK to identify, scope and drive change and improvement through IT solutions. Working mainly within laboratories and with LIMS systems. You will be a key driver for implementing process improvements both within the lab, IT Solutions support and replacement of legacy systems.

This position is ideal for a Business Analyst looking to make their next step in their career. This role will involve hands on scoping, analysing, implementing, configuration and support of business solutions.

Key duties as IT Business Analyst include:

• Work with business to scope & map business processes
• Take business requirements and processes, identify changes improvements and challenge requests to come up with optimal solutions
• Work with the business to scope requirements, and write-up specifications for changes
• Understand business requirements, and ensure optimal solutions are delivered.
• Work with key stakeholders to identify timelines and manage projects
• Work with multiple development teams, monitoring development, liaise with key stakeholders on blockages or changes to development.
• Facilitating meetings, training and workshops for key users
• Working with both legacy systems, as well as implementation and scoping of cutting-edge replacement systems.

Essential Skills

• Experience in providing expert level Application Support
• Experience in User Training and Application Demonstrations
• Strong communication skills, including good documentation and written skills.
• Experience of working directly with development teams
• Good presentation skills
• Good relationship building skills
• Ability to engage in constructive conversation, and challenge stakeholders to achieve optimal solutions
• Experience in ERP solutions (Ideally LIMS)

Beneficial Skills

• BCS, CCBA, CBAP, PRINCE2 Business Analysis Certifications
• Experience in laboratory, testing fields or with LIMS systems
• Basic SQL and configuration skills
• Basic Programming skills (scripting, vb.net etc.)
• Experience of agile development and management platforms (TFS, Kanban, Jira, Youtrack or similar)

The role is located in Newmarket. This position reports to the Head of IT for Environment Testing UK. There will be some travel to UK sites.

The initial 6 months of this role will be implementation focused and then move into continuous improvement.