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.

Eurofins 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 the entire network of Eurofins companies.

Eurofins is the world's leading food and feed testing laboratory group, deploying a comprehensive range of state-of-the-art analytical techniques to establish the safety, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability, and purity of food. Performing more than 450 million assays per year, Eurofins offers the broadest portfolio of any food testing lab and makes this unique offer available globally from any of our laboratories.

Eurofins Microbiology Laboratories, Inc., formally Cascade Analytical serves the greater Washington state area supporting agricultural, food, feed, and ingredient industries with microbiological testing, and environmental monitoring services.

We are now looking for a Business Unit Manager (BUMa) for our facility in Yakima, WA who will be responsible for sales, business development, quality control, and the overall financial performance of the laboratory.

Tasked to lead and expand the Business Unit along the agreed-upon strategy, the BUMa will be in charge of technical site operations, maximizing the efficiency and profitability of the scientific teams while delivering the targets of the BU, both financial and strategic.

This position is a strong combination of strategic planning, managing operational excellence, client relationship management, and leadership, using HR best practices to ensure that our laboratory is operating at the highest quality and productivity standards. 

To perform this job successfully, the individual should meet the following requirements:

Education: min. bachelor's degree in Science or related field. MBA would be nice to have.

Experience: 7+ years of working in the food service industry (preferably in a laboratory environment: experience with lab procedures, data analysis, computer operations + ability to lead lab through continuous improvement initiatives). 

At least 5 years of supervisory experience with strong leadership skills to be able to organize and lead laboratory personnel in a manner that reflects corporate goals and objectives and schedule workflow to optimize laboratory productivity and client satisfaction cost-effectively.

Skills/abilities: financial acumen to understand and analyze financial statements.

Excellent interpersonal, organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills with action-oriented attitude, and attention to detail.

Experience in technical/business writing and giving oral presentations.

Ability to work independently and as part of a team, self-motivation, adaptability, and a positive attitude.

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! Eurofins network of companies believe 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 also 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 is the 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 one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations. 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 61,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 900 laboratories in 61 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 2022, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.