IT Business Analyst LIMS Process Expert

In a nutshell

As a Business Analyst expert in LIMS Processes you will support our inhouse chromatography data processing application. You will translate laboratory and business requirements into clear deliverables optimize analytical workflows for quality and efficiency and ensure compliance with major EU environmental testing laboratory standards.

You will partner with laboratory leaders product and engineering teams finance and commercial stakeholders to standardize processes and guide delivery of features that streamline instrument data capture processing quality control (QC) technical review and reporting across hyphenated and non-hyphenated analytical workflows (gas chromatography GC liquid chromatography LC inductively coupled plasma ICP and mass spectrometry (MS).

Where will you be based and what business will you support

Based in Lisbon Portugal; you will join a globally distributed team in support of our European Environmental Testing business with a primary focus on chromatography data processing application.

How can you help us

You will work on the following main areas:

Strategy & Operational Analysis to:

• Assess the EU Environmental Testing market regulatory expectations and laboratory operational data to identify opportunities for efficiency quality improvement and margin enhancement.
• Support EUfocused pricing client segmentation and demand modeling to guide product and investment priorities.
• Recommend improvements to enhance turnaround time (TAT) analytical quality data reliability and regulatory alignment.

Product / Requirements Ownership (Chromatography Data System Software) to:

• Serve as primary liaison between EU laboratory stakeholders and the Product Development team.
• Elicit document and refine Business Requirements User Requirements and acceptance criteria (including nonfunctional needs like performance and usability).
• Maintain and update process documentation including BRD (Business Requirements Document) URD (User Requirements Document) and BPMN (Business Process Model & Notation).
• Collaborate with Product Development team to translate requirements into functional designs; help groom backlogs and support release scoping.
• Lead EUregional user acceptance testing (UAT) business signoff and change management for new features and workflow updates.

CrossFunctional Business Support to:

• Partner with laboratory directors technical leads and product teams across the EU to harmonize chromatography data workflows.
• Facilitate workshops with subject matter experts (SMEs) to challenge assumptions streamline workflows and improve crosssite alignment.
• Build and maintain strong relationships across operations R&D quality IT and commercial units.

Process Optimization & Quality Alignment to:

• Map current vs. futurestate EU laboratory workflows; identify gaps risks and compliance needs.
• Ensure alignment with Eurofins Quality System Documents (SOPs methods work instructions).
• Ensure processes requirements and software workflows comply with key EU laboratory frameworks including: ISO/IEC 17025 EU Ecolabel testing requirements and EU Member State national accreditation bodies operating under EA (European cooperation for Accreditation)
• Support audit preparation nonconformity resolution CAPAs and continuous improvement.
• Track corrective actions and measure system/process impact postdeployment.

Data Reporting & Financial Insight to:

• Build dashboards (performance throughput error rates QC metrics method performance adoption/usage).
• Support budgeting forecasting and operational reviews with EUspecific actionable insights.
• Validate product requirements with data quantify product value and measure outcomes.

Qualifications :

Are you our kind of extraordinary

You have:

• A Bachelors degree in Business Science Engineering IT or related field.
• 3 years as a Business Analyst or Product Owner/Analyst in software laboratory operations or scientific environments.
• Experience writing user stories acceptance criteria and functional documentation in an Agile environment (e.g. Jira/Confluence).
• Familiarity with laboratory informatics such as LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) and CDS (Chromatography Data System).
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills across multicultural EU teams.
• Working knowledge of EU environmental testing compliance frameworks including but not limited to: ISO/IEC 17025 EU Ecolabel requirements and European Accreditation (EA)
• Strong stakeholder management and interpersonal skills
• Strong analytical skills; proficiency in Excel (SQL/BI tools a plus).

You are:

• A strong communicator in English (written/oral).
• A fast learner.
• Self-motivated with a can-do attitude.

What else should I know

The following skills are an advantage:

• Experience in environmental (chromatography workflows is a plus) food agroscience or biopharma testing and laboratory operations in EUregulated scientific environments.
• Experience building BPMN workflows and writing functional specifications.
• Exposure to LIMS CDS or scientific data management platforms; understanding of instrument integration.
• MBA . or advanced scientific/technical degree.

Additional Information :

We support your development! Do you feel you dont match 100% of the requirements Dont 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: 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 37 years Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes France to 65000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of over 950 laboratories in 60 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200000 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 695 billion and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time

Experience: years
Vacancy: 1