IT Controls and Compliance Officer

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.

In a nutshell:

Are you passionate about identifying IT risks and issues? Do you enjoy fixing problems and implementing controls to prevent them from reoccurring? Do you know what effective IT infrastructure looks like and have a structured approach to managing it? Are you excited about working in an international, multi-cloud environment and being a key player in driving compliance? If so, this might be the dream job you’ve been looking for.

Where will you be based and what business will you support?

You will be based in either Barcelona, Spain or Katowice, Poland. You’ll be part of the IT Infrastructure Support team for Eurofins Food & Feed and Environment Testing Europe, supporting a growing international team of over 250 people spread across more than 20 countries. Your role will encompass managing compliance standards, assessing IT risks, and helping ensure the IT infrastructure aligns with Eurofins’ global policies and standards.

How can you help us?

• Support the Regional IT Controls and Compliance Lead to define and implement controls and compliance standards.
• Partner with the Group IT Risk and Compliance teams to ensure compliance and risk monitoring are effectively managed across our European operations.
• Act as a dedicated Controls and Compliance expert for the IT Infrastructure Tower teams and collaborate with Zone Managers and Solution Directors on key control indicators, remediation plans, and IT Risk Assessments.
• Promote a culture of Controls and Compliance, raise awareness, and help drive improvements in IT infrastructure governance.
• Identify opportunities to improve and re-engineer existing compliance monitoring processes and procedures, and be a resourceful partner to ensure they are carried out efficiently.

Are you our kind of extraordinary?

• Experienced in IT Risk Management, IT Controls, or Information Security (prior experience is preferable, but not mandatory).
• Self-motivated and driven to manage multiple tasks effectively, even in a dynamic and demanding environment.
• A strong communicator with excellent verbal and written skills in English at a management level.
• Highly resourceful with the ability to quickly adapt to new challenges and take initiative.
• A strategic thinker with excellent problem-solving skills, particularly when managing risks and developing remediation plans.
• Well-organized, disciplined, and skilled in project management to meet objectives and key deadlines while ensuring quality and compliance.

What else should I know?

As the role and Eurofins' IT Talent Acquisition team are international, please ensure to submit your application in English.

What can we offer you?

• A competitive salary package, including bonus and benefits;
• Extensive on-the-job coaching and training opportunities;
• A hybrid working setup; 
• Challenges within a multi-cultural and cross-regional team as part of the international and fast-growing Eurofins organization;
• A dynamic working environment with a good team spirit where personal development and growth are highly encouraged. 

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.