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Job Description

The Regional Purchasing Technology & Integration Specialist (RIS) will play a pivotal, project-based role , leading the end-to-end integration of Eurofins Legal Entities into the company’s digital purchasing platforms, primarily Coupa (digital purchasing system) , alongside associated warehouse management systems. This includes entities resulting from mergers and acquisitions (M&A) as well as current entities requiring system onboarding.

The RIS will lead such projects from initiation to completion, ensuring seamless system integration, selecting appropriate digital tools, and driving synergies across purchasing and warehouse operations. They will act as the central project lead, coordinating with internal IT partners, regional and local stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to achieve project milestones. On-site travel may be required to support complex integrations and ensure successful implementation.

In addition to system integration, the RIS will focus on best practice enrichment , ensuring standardised training, task-specific modifications, and continuous process improvement. They will prepare comprehensive project status reports, steering committee documentation, and presentations for regional leadership and global review sessions.

Key Responsibilities

1. Project Leadership for Digital Purchasing & Warehouse System Integration

• Lead project-based integrations of newly acquired and existing legal entities into the Coupa (digital purchasing system) and associated platforms.
• Manage warehouse system integration, either through the Coupa Inventory module (digital purchasing system) or by selecting and interfacing with an alternative solution.
• Conduct system assessments, including warehouse needs (e.g., UOM, suppliers, cycle counts, on-hand data).
• Evaluate and implement best-fit standard processes for purchasing and warehouse integration, collaborating with local stakeholders.
• Organise system demonstrations with internal IT partners, external vendors, and local teams.
• Lead fit-gap analyses to align solutions with Eurofins’ purchasing and warehouse requirements.
• Ensure system interoperability between Coupa, warehouse platforms, and other related systems.

2. End-to-End Project Management

3. Best Practice Enrichment and Process Optimisation

4. Synergy Identification and Procurement Optimisation

5. Stakeholder Collaboration and Communication

6. Reporting and Leadership Support

7. Training and Change Management

Qualifications

Proven experience in purchasing operations, procurement technology, or system integration.

Strong project management and organisational skills.

What We Offer

Additional Information

We support your development!  Do you feel 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!  The Eurofins network of companies believes in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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.

Sustainability matters to us!   We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more in our career page :  https : / / careers.eurofins.com /

Company description :   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 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to ca. 62,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 900 laboratories in 62 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 2023, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6,515 million, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.