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.

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.

Job Description

In a nutshell

As a Release Manager, you will be responsible for deploying builds across various environments, onboarding new environments, and handling transversal projects. You will play a key role in managing risks, resolving issues affecting release scope, schedule, and quality, and ensuring timely deployments.

Your role

• Your role will require maintaining the release schedule for all core services, aligning with key partners and vendors, and coordinating release content based on service requests, third-party applications, and operating system updates.
• You will be responsible for communicating project plans, commitments, and changes, including QA plans and scope changes.
• Your role will also include conducting release readiness reviews, milestone reviews, and business Go/No-Go reviews with stakeholders. Additionally, you will produce deployment documentation, run books, and implementation plans, and participate in CAB meetings to present production changes.
• Leading and coordinating Go-Live activities, executing deployment plans, and maintaining checklists will be a crucial part of your responsibilities.
• You will be responsible for generating weekly release reports and improving the release process by documenting issues and developing plans for enhancement, including automation recommendations.
• Your ability to interact with individuals across various hierarchical levels will be essential in ensuring smooth project execution.

What we offer

• We offer an opportunity to grow your project management skills in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• You will be part of an international team of professionals, with a chance to expand your career within the many business lines of Eurofins globally.
• Successful team members are frequently offered increased responsibilities and career advancement opportunities.

Qualifications

Are you our kind of extraordinary?

• To succeed in this role, you should have a solid understanding of Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration (CD/CI) pipelines, along with a good grasp of cloud deployment, preferably within an Azure environment.
• Experience with Agile practices is highly valued. Familiarity with deployment tools such as Octopus, as well as knowledge of MS Project and Excel-Macros, will be beneficial.
• Experience in document management for audit compliance processes is an advantage.
• You should have three to four years of relevant experience in release and deployment management, with demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and tasks efficiently.
• Strong leadership, analytical skills, troubleshooting capabilities, and organizational abilities are essential for managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Your technical expertise should include proficiency with Windows platforms, MSSQL databases, and ticketing tools such as ServiceNow.
• You should have experience working in an MS Azure cloud environment and familiarity with CI and build deployment tools such as Octopus Deploy.
• Knowledge of version control tools like Azure DevOps and monitoring tools like Grafana will be beneficial.

If you are looking to be part of a dynamic release management team and contribute to a structured and efficient deployment process, we encourage you to apply.

What else should you know?

As the role and Eurofins' teams are international, please ensure to submit your application in English.

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! 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.

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 on our Careers 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 37 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to ca. 63,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 950 laboratories in over 1,000 companies across 60 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.