Business Unit Manager Asbestos Belgium

HOW CAN YOU HELP US?

In a nutshell:

We are looking for a hands-on Business Unit Manager to lead and develop our Asbestos Services Business Unit within Eurofins Environment Testing Belgium.

This role combines people leadership, operational excellence, and commercial responsibility, making it ideal for a driven professional ready to take the next step into full business leadership. You will be responsible for driving business performance, developing your team, strengthening customer relationships, and identifying opportunities for growth.

What team will you be part of?

You will join Eurofins Environment Testing Belgium, part of the Eurofins Scientific Group, a global leader in analytical and testing services.

The Business Unit specializes in asbestos-related services, supporting customers across Belgium with laboratory analysis, inspections, and regulatory compliance. Working closely with operational teams, field colleagues, and commercial stakeholders, the Business Unit plays an important role in helping customers maintain safe and compliant environments.

You will lead a Business Unit of approximately 25 FTE, consisting of operational teams and commercial support functions. Reporting directly to senior leadership, you will collaborate closely with colleagues across operations, sales, and technical functions to deliver outstanding service and drive continued business growth.

As Business Unit Manager, you will:

• Take full ownership of the operational and financial performance of the Business Unit.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of operational and support profiles, ensuring strong engagement and performance.
• Drive business growth by identifying opportunities and supporting commercial activities.
• Act as a key point of contact for customers, handling discussions and building long-term relationships.
• Monitor and steer KPIs, targets, and performance metrics in a structured and data-driven way.
• Optimize processes, planning, and resource allocation to improve efficiency and productivity.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to unlock synergies and support broader business objectives.
• Contribute to budgeting and business planning, with exposure to (and development in) P&L management.
• Foster a results-oriented culture, focused on accountability and continuous improvement.

Are you our kind of extraordinary?

You are a driven and pragmatic leader with a strong operational mindset and the ambition to grow into a broader business role.

Your profile includes:

• Experience in an operational leadership role (e.g. operations, production, logistics, manufacturing, or similar).
• A hands-on approach and ability to manage teams in a dynamic, multi-site or field-based environment.
• Interest in or initial exposure to commercial activities; comfortable engaging with customers.
• Understanding of business performance metrics (KPIs, revenue, margins); experience with P&L is a plus.
• Knowledge and experience of Operational Excellence; application of LEAN
• Strong analytical and organizational skills; comfortable working with numbers and targets.
• A results-driven mindset with a strong sense of ownership.
• Proven ability to lead, motivate, and develop teams.
• A proactive attitude and the ability to turn challenges into opportunities.

Education:

• Degree in Business, Science, Engineering, or a related field (flexible).

Languages:

• Dutch (mandatory)
• French and English are a plus

Location:

• Merelbeke-Melle, Belgium

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.