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
As a Junior Communications and Social Media Associate, you will work at Group Service Centre (GSC) level with our Communications team, based in Dublin, Ireland, to support strategic communications projects. In addition, you will assist local marketing and communications teams around the world, with special focus on communications asset management, media monitoring and social media management.
This position requires excellent organisational skills and attention to detail. It is a great opportunity for a candidate looking to start or grow their career in a fast-paced international environment while contributing to meaningful communications initiatives.
Communications tasks
- Serve as point of contact for in-market teams, responding to inquiries addressed to the GSC Communications team and supporting their day-to-day needs.
- Support the GSC Communications team in providing English-language reviews and messaging guidance to colleagues across the global network.
- Support the management and development of Eurofins communications assets, including copyediting, messaging review and visual design.
- Manage support activities for our in-market marketing and communications teams worldwide.
- Monitor traditional and social media coverage of Eurofins companies and their competitors across various markets.
- Support with ad-hoc GSC Communications projects in collaboration with other GSC teams.
- Support the maintenance and development of web pages and website copy.
Social media tasks
- Monitor Eurofins’ social media channels (LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok) on an ongoing basis, including community management and regular review of all comments, inquiries and performance analytics.
- Develop and maintain editorial calendars; create, schedule and distribute engaging content – including copy, associated imagery, graphics, and videos across Eurofins’ social media channels.
- Support and grow the internal Eurofins social media community by sharing best practices via our dedicated SharePoint and biweekly newsletter, and by managing social media-related queries from local teams around the world.
What can we offer you?
You will be based at Eurofins’ corporate office in Dublin, Ireland – a dynamic and international environment where several key operational functions are located. Here you will have the opportunity to work closely with experienced marketing and communications professionals and gain exposure to a global organisation with strong growth potential.
Curious about our online presence? Visit our Careers page and follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.
Qualifications
Education: A degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Social Media, Science or a related field.
Languages: Native-level proficiency in English is required. Fluency in other languages, especially French and German, is considered a plus.
Soft skills: Attention to detail and a structured approach to tasks, with an ability to independently manage multiple projects simultaneously. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships with a variety of colleagues in different markets and teams. Experience with social media management, and solid understanding of best practices and compliance standards.
IT Skills: Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook). Knowledge of design programmes such as Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop), Canva, Adobe Acrobat Professional and media monitoring tools such as Meltwater, Brandwatch, Hootsuite a plus.
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.
