Business Unit Manager, Microbiology Pharma at Eurofins · Schönenwe…

Company Description

Eurofins Scientific is a leading international life sciences company providing a unique range of analytical testing services across multiple industries to make life and our environment safer, healthier, and more sustainable. From the food you eat to the water you drink and the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories support many of the world’s largest companies in ensuring product safety, ingredient authenticity, and accurate labeling.

As part of its commitment to society and the planet, Eurofins delivers testing services that protect public health while upholding strong corporate responsibility standards. This includes a dedicated focus on environmental sustainability as well as fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion across its global network.

Eurofins BioPharma Product Testing offers complete CMC Testing Services for the Bio/Pharmaceutical industry, including all starting materials, process intermediates, drug substances, drug product, packaging, and manufacturing support through our broad technical expertise in Biochemistry, Molecular & Cell Biology, Virology, Chemistry and Microbiology.

Our local presence ensures personal service backed by a unique global breadth of harmonised capabilities that support all functional areas of bio/pharmaceutical drug development and manufacturing, including method development, microbiology, process validation and quality control.

Eurofins BioPharma Product Testing (BPT) is the world’s largest network of GMP laboratories supporting the pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device industries.

At our Schönenwerd site (Eurofins BioPharma Product Testing Switzerland AG), we deliver high‑quality microbiology services ensuring the safety and reliability of critical healthcare products.

Job Description

To strengthen our leadership team, we are seeking an experienced and inspirational Business Unit Manager, Microbiology Pharma (100% – Schönenwerd) who will play a key role in driving the continued growth of our business in Switzerland.

In this key leadership role, you will take full strategic and operational ownership of the Microbiology Pharma Business Unit and drive growth, quality, and innovation.

Your responsibilities include:

• Strategic and operational leadership of an established microbiology team
• Ensuring GMP‑compliant laboratory operations and continuous process improvements
• Full responsibility for budget, revenue, profitability, and capacity planning
• Further development of the service portfolio and active contribution to business expansion
• Close collaboration with QA, Operations, Sales, and Eurofins’ international network
• Coaching, motivating, and developing your team members
• Representation of the Business Unit towards customers, partners, and authorities

Qualifications

You are a great match if you bring:

• A university degree in Microbiology, Biotechnology, Life Sciences, or a related field
• Several years of leadership experience in a GMP‑regulated laboratory environment
• Solid understanding of microbiological methods (e.g., bioburden, environmental monitoring, utility testing (clean water, gas), endotoxin testing, media fills)
• Strong business mindset; experience with P&L responsibility is a plus
• Excellent communication and people‑leadership skills
• Strong customer focus and ability to effectively prioritise in a dynamic environment
• Very good command of English and German

Additional Information

What We Offer:

• A key leadership position within a fast‑growing, internationally connected life‑science company
• The opportunity to actively shape the future of our Schönenwerd site
• Modern laboratory and office infrastructure
• A supportive, motivated team and short decision‑making paths
• Attractive internal development and training opportunities across the Eurofins Group

If we have aroused your interest, we would be delighted if you could send us a personal cover letter, your CV and references.

We look forward to receiving your application!

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/

Please note that as per Eurofins policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters were engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that Eurofins will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.