Job Description Summary

The head engineering for development, as a member of Sandoz global Engineering leadership, is responsible for managing engineering operations including investments and maintenance for the Sandoz development centres. Furthermore, the role is responsible for coordinating investment strategies between development and technical operations along with Sandoz business requirements. The role is a key member of the Sandoz Development, as well as the Sandoz Global Engineering Leadership Team.

Job Description

Sandoz is going through an exciting and transformative period as a global leader and pioneering provider of sustainable Generic and Biosimilar medicines. Now as an independently listed company, Sandoz aims to increase its strategic focus, operate with greater agility, set clearer business objectives, enhance shareholder returns, and strengthen its culture for us, the Sandoz associates. This is an exciting time in our history, and by creating a new and ambitious path, it will provide a unique opportunity for us all, both professionally and personally.

Join us as a Founder of our 'new' Sandoz!

Your Key Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Establish long term investment portfolio based on business strategies by managing the multiyear Capital expenditure plan for Sandoz development centers via providing oversight on local site budgets, spend forecasting and project selection.
Coordinate key strategic development investments with Sandoz TechOps to identify and manage synergies as well as dependencies and generate an overall Sandoz multi-year investment plan.
Define, control and deliver key strategic development investment projects, ensuring project objectives of scope, budget and schedule are maintained to achieve business needs, in order to achieve expected value.
Ensure development centers have appropriate engineering (or similar) organization in place and Sandoz engineering processes in the key areas of Capex expenditure and asset life-cycle management are applied.
Ensure all the development centers have the equipment recapitalization plan and facilities to operate in a safe, effective and technically compliant manner.
Develop and own key facility and manufacturing design concepts to ensure value is created both operationally and financially after implementation.
Ensure compliance with GMP and regulatory requirements and continuous improvement of quality relevant processes within area of responsibility.
A champion of the Sandoz values & behaviors and acts as a role-model of leadership that fosters an inclusive and high performing culture which develops capability and talents.

What you'll bring to the role:

Essential Requirements:

15 years general Engineering experience thereof years' experience in a pharmaceutical manufacturing environment
Outstanding technical knowledge with demonstrated ability to deliver safe and fully compliant technical solutions
Demonstrated leadership abilities leading a team aligned around business / technology / project processes
Well-developed communication skills, ability to present comfortably to Senior Management and to Technical Experts
Demonstrated knowledge / understanding of key non-technical business processes, HR, Finance
Advance HSe and GxP / QA knowledge
Outstanding flexibility, adaptability and sense of accountability
Strong leadership and collaboration skills (team player mentality)
Self-driven with high learning agility, dynamic, ambitious and passionate

You'll receive:

Sandoz has an employee-first approach and that's why your personal growth is so important to us. You will have access to Coursera and other learning platforms with more than 200,000 learning videos and 5000+ courses. In addition to the various learning opportunities, we offer company benefits, such as:

30 days of annual leave
Holiday allowance
Additional rewards for special occasions (e.g. service length awards, marriage celebration, etc.)
Company pension schemes and capital formation benefits
Parental leave
Other offerings, such as bike leasing

Why Sandoz?

Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, touched the lives of almost 500 million patients last year and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!

With investments in new development capabilities, state-of-the-art production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help more patients gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.

Our momentum and entrepreneurial spirit is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful, flexible-hybrid careers, where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is encouraged!

The future is ours to shape!

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve. Hiring decisions are only based on the qualification for the position, regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age and disability.

The law provides for severely disabled / equal applicants the opportunity to involve the local representative body for disabled employees (SBV) in the application process. If you would like to request this, please let us know in advance as a note on your CV.

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