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Eurofins International Commercial Controller - Frankfurt am Main area or Freiburg in Dietzenbach, Germany
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.
Gold Standard Diagnostics is an International Business Line (IBL) within the Eurofins Network focused on providing fast, reliable, and easy to use diagnostic test kits and instruments in bio-analytical testing for the food, feed, environmental, biopharma, and clinical industries. The in-house R&D teams have expertise in developing a wide range of innovative methods and applications to meet the testing needs of both research and industry. The IBL comprises of more than 15 entities worldwide, mostly in Europe and North America.
The International Commercial Controller provides business partnership to the management and sales teams and plays a key role in the continuous development of tools and deliverables including reporting and planning process to drive commercial performance (sales scope worldwide greater than €100 million).
Your main tasks will be to:
Drive and support the continuous development and improvement of our product/customer masterdata, to ensure efficiency, data quality and compatibility with IT/ERP projects.
Manage monthly global sales reports and help the sales teams understand and improve the worldwide commercial performance, identify trends and performance-drivers, analyse variances against the past and the plan, compute and report volume/price analysis on a quarterly basis.
Work closely with the sales teams and directors to identify the relevant business’ KPIs and how to track them; coordinate, control, and follow-up on price changes; co-develop pricing and margin approaches and tools.
Co-design and implement the sales planning process to embed volume and price assumptions into budget assumptions, ensuring that there is a clear storyline for the IBL and finding the right balance between detail/precision and efficiency.
Support the IBL CFO on ad-hoc financial topics and projects.
Provide lean and remote business partnering support to certain local entities.
POSITION OBJECTIVES:
Execute global sales report, TCPC report, ad-hoc required reports
Ensure compliance to Global internal financial policy
Communicate and work together with sales, product management, general management departments
Support Sales department
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Commercial reporting and controlling – sales, margin, SKU
Master Data management and improvement
Budgeting, financial planning and analysis of several entities
Ad-hoc reports
Master’s degree in Business Administration or Finance.
Approximately 3+ years of professional experience in operational finance or business analyst roles, with increasing levels of responsibility, particularly in sales controlling.
Proven expertise as a strong project and change manager, with a natural drive to challenge the status quo and the ability to initiate and lead sustainable change.
Excellent interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
Strong ability to manage and prioritize workloads, ensuring robust controls while driving strategic initiatives forward.
Fluency in English (additional languages are a plus).
Advanced proficiency in Excel and data management (including queries, complex formulas, and data models) with a keen interest in continuous learning. Familiarity with Access and Power BI is an advantage.
PERSONAL QUALITIES
Pragmatic with a can-do attitude.
Service-oriented while effectively challenging leaders.
Strategic thinker with a hands-on approach (“doer”).
Flexible, open to new ideas, and capable of driving and adapting to change.
Thrives in international environments.
Confident in taking initiative and able to work independently.
Results-driven with a strong work ethic.
Skilled at considering the big picture while paying attention to finer details.
Charismatic yet calm under pressure.
Comfortable working in dynamic, fast-growing environments and entrepreneurial, decentralized organizations.
Strives for high standards in all tasks.
Excellent problem-solving skills.
Objective-oriented and precise.
Punctual and able to meet deadlines reliably.
Highly responsible and able to work independently with minimal supervision.
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.
