Head of Biopharma Product Testing Benelux

From starting materials through to finished product testing, Eurofins BioPharma Product Testing’s network of over 45 facilities in more than 20 countries delivers the world’s most comprehensive scope of harmonised GMP testing services and seamless regulatory acceptance. 

As we have grown to become the world’s largest network of GMP product testing laboratories, we continue to uphold our founding promise of personal service and impeccable quality. When the world awaits your product, choose the laboratory that provides complete capabilities and rigorous quality systems you can trust.

We are seeking the Head of BioPharma Product Testing, with end‑to‑end responsibility for the Benelux Biopharma Product Services network in the Benelux region.  Reporting to Regional Business Line Leader BioPharma Product Testing Europe, this role holds full P&L accountability and leads strategy execution across a multi‑site, regulated, and growth‑oriented business. The position is based in Leiden, the Netherlands.

Strategic & Commercial Leadership

• Define and execute the BioPharma Product Testing strategy across Benelux.
• Drive top‑line growth and market share expansion, with a strong focus on strategic and key accounts.
• Position and evolve the service portfolio to anticipate regulatory changes, customer needs, and market trends.
• Partner with Company Presidents, Boards, and Executive Management Teams to set long‑term objectives, scientific direction, and commercial priorities.

Operational & P&L Ownership

• Maintain full accountability for P&L performance, including revenue growth, margin, cost control, and capital discipline.
• Translate commercial strategy into concrete operational levers, ensuring efficient, scalable, and profitable service delivery across laboratories.
• Identify and drive structural performance improvements, combining entrepreneurial mindset with operational discipline.

People & Leadership

• Ensure the business is led by high‑calibre leaders; develop, coach, and succession‑plan key management talent.
• Foster open communication, accountability, and performance culture across countries and sites.

Experience

• Minimum 7 years in senior leadership roles, with at least 3 years of full P&L responsibility for complex, multi‑site businesses.
• Demonstrated success in growth‑driven, commercial organisations.
• Ideally coming from regulated environment.

Education

• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Engineering, or Life Sciences required.

Languages

• Fluent in English and Dutch.

Capabilities

• Strong commercial and strategic acumen.
• Excellent financial literacy and P&L ownership.
• Data driven and fact oriented decision maker.
• Proven people leader with the ability to build and challenge teams.
• Entrepreneurial, hands‑on, and outcome‑driven.
• Comfortable operating at Board and Executive level.

We support your development! Do you feel like 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.

Find out more on our Careers page: https://careers.eurofins.com/

Company description: Eurofins Scientific is an international network of independent life sciences companies, 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 under 40 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 65,000 employees across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of over 950 laboratories in over 1,000 independent companies across 59 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.

The Eurofins network generated EUR 7.296 billion revenues in FY 2025, and has been one of the fastest growing listed European companies for almost three decades.