Freelance IT Product Manager for a LIMS in Clinical Diagnostics

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.

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.

Job Description

The Product Manager is accountable for the end-to-end lifecycle of the IT product “eLIMS-Clinical Diagnostic Europe”, from strategy and roadmap definition to delivery, adoption, and continuous improvement. The Product is the main target Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) for our Clinical Diagnostics business in Europe and further business around the world.

The role represents the voice of the business and users, balancing customer value, technical feasibility, compliance, and cost efficiency.

The Product Manager works closely with business stakeholder and different IT roles (e.g. IT Architects, IT Developers, IT Deployment Manager, IT Operations Engineer, IT Quality Manager) to ensure products deliver measurable value, align with Eurofins strategy, and are sustainably operated.

POSITION & OBJECTIVES:

Product Strategy & Vision

• Define and maintain the product vision, objectives, and value proposition.
• Translate business strategy into a clear product roadmap.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, security, and compliance requirements.
• Own product success metrics (value, adoption, satisfaction, cost).

Stakeholder & Business Alignment

• Act as the single point of contact for the product.
• Collect, analyze, and prioritize business needs and user feedback.
• Facilitate decision-making between business, IT, and external partners.
• Communicate roadmap, priorities, and trade-offs transparently.

Backlog & Requirements Management

• Own and maintain the product backlog.
• Define and prioritize epics, features, and requirements based on value.
• Ensure requirements are clear, testable, and understood by delivery teams.
• Balance functional, non-functional, regulatory, and operational needs.
• Identify and document the business value of IT requirements
• Arbitrate with business sponsors the need and value of IT requirement

Delivery & Execution

• Work closely with delivery teams (internal or external) to plan and deliver increments.
• Support sprint planning, reviews, and demos as needed.
• Ensure delivered solutions meet business expectations and quality standards.
• Validate outcomes with stakeholders and users.

Lifecycle, Operations & Continuous Improvement

• Manage the product across its full lifecycle (ideation → delivery → run → retirement).
• Collaborate with support and operations to ensure stable and efficient run.
• Identify improvement opportunities based on usage data, incidents, and feedback.
• Drive continuous optimization of value, cost, and user experience.

Financial & Vendor Management

• Support forecasting and budget tracking for the product.
• Contribute to business cases and cost/benefit analyses.
• Coordinate with vendors and service providers where applicable.

Communication & Reporting

• Provide regular status updates and product reporting to stakeholders.
• Prepare dashboards on value, adoption, delivery progress, and risks.
• Lead or participate in Product Review / Steering meetings.

Qualifications

Professional Experience

• Experience as a Product Manager, Product Owner, or similar role in an IT environment.
• Strong understanding of software and IT product lifecycles.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams (Business, IT, Vendors).
• Familiarity with agile and/or hybrid delivery models like Scrum, SAFe etc.

Technical & Domain Knowledge

• A background in TIC (Testing Inspection Certification) industry and/or Healthcare is a plus
• A background in LIMS development is a plus
• Broad understanding of IT systems, applications, integrations, and data flows.
• Experience with ITSM and delivery tools (e.g. ServiceNow, Jira, Azure DevOps).
• Awareness of security, compliance, and regulatory constraints in enterprise IT.

Analytical & Methodological Skills

• Ability to prioritize based on value, risk, and effort.
• Data-driven decision-making mindset.
• Experience translating business needs into actionable requirements.

Soft Skills

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to influence without formal authority.
• Structured, proactive, and results-oriented working style.
• Comfortable navigating complex organizational environments.

Additional Information

Additional information

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.

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