AI Enablement Lead, EITSI

Eurofins is Testing for Life. The Eurofins network of companies believes that it is the 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.

With over 62,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 900 laboratories in 61 countries, Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of a wide range of products, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services and in-vitro diagnostic products.

Eurofins companies' broad range of services are important for the health and safety of people and our planet. The ongoing investment to become fully digital and maintain the best network of state-of-the-art laboratories and equipment supports our objective to provide our customers with high-quality services, innovative solutions and accurate results in the best possible turnaround time (TAT). Eurofins companies are well positioned to support clients' increasingly stringent quality and safety standards and the increasing demands of regulatory authorities as well as the evolving requirements of healthcare practitioners around the world.

Eurofins has grown very strongly since its inception and its strategy is to continue expanding its technology portfolio and its geographic reach. Through R&D and acquisitions, the Group draws on the latest developments in the field of biotechnology and analytical chemistry to offer its clients unique analytical solutions.

Shares in Eurofins Scientific are listed on the Euronext Paris Stock Exchange (ISIN FR0014000MR3, Reuters EUFI.PA, Bloomberg ERF FP).

This role will be based out of the India IT Delivery Centre and will be responsible for driving AI adoption through upskilling employees, identifying high value use cases, and enabling consistent application of AI tools across the SDLC lifecycle. The role will operate as an influencer, creating a community of AI practitioners across IT Solutions Programs. While this role will report solid line to the India IT Delivery Centre Manager, the role will also matrix into GSC IT Solutions leaders responsible for innovation initiatives across IT.

Primary Responsibilities

1. Deliver measurable SDLC productivity improvement through AI-enabled practices, achieving equivalent or higher delivery output with reduced or stabilized headcount.
   • Accountable for driving AI adoption and to maximise associated efficiency gains across the SDLC by connecting and educating teams on bestinclass AI practices, and by sharing business use cases and tools across programs
   • Define structured learning pathways aligned to SDLC roles. Curate hands-on learning
   • Standardize best practices and tool usage across SDLC phase.
   • Build a community of AI practitioners across programs. Track and publish adoption metrics.
2. Maximize business outcomes by industrializing reusable AI use cases and tools, fostering crossprogram reuse, and accelerating value realization while reducing duplicated efforts.
   • Partner with BU leaders, Section Leaders and Program Managers to identify high value AI opportunities and prioritize based on ROI (effort vs impact) and drive implementation
3. Define, design, and deliver the target Agentic AIenabled SDLC, ensuring architectural robustness, scalable implementation, and tangible business value realization.

Requirements:

To perform this job successfully, the individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
• 15+ years of experience in software engineering, delivery management, and transformation projects
• Have relevant transformation experience driving AI adoption across the organization and led a community of AI practitioners.
• 5+ years in leadership roles managing enterprise-scale delivery programs.
• Deep understanding of AI technologies, frameworks and applications.
• Prove track record in partnering with business leaders to deploy sophisticated AI tools and systems at scale.
• Strong knowledge of software development process and engineering workflows.
• Excellent interpersonal, leadership, negotiation, communication and analytical skills, with the ability to drive changes across teams.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
• Excellent English communication skills

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/

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 is the 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 one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations. 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 61,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 900 laboratories in 61 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 2022, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.