Asset Lead Solids — Roche

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At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position With its 1400 employees, the Kaiseraugst Production Center (PTM) ensures uninterrupted patient care with high-quality medicines. PTM stands for the highest standards of pharmaceutical manufacturing, Roche’s largest, most innovative packaging centre and the supply of more than 120 countries.

The possibility As an asset lead solids, you carry the professional and personnel responsibility within your department. You control the reliable production of solid drug forms – from highly effective tablet and capsule lines to modern packaging processes for global markets. This ensures that vital oncology and neurology drugs reach patients worldwide in the highest quality.

You lead your team efficiently in accordance with the PT strategy, the PT goals and the location goals and contribute significantly to their implementation. Drive innovation and continuous improvement by combining strategic thinking, technical and entrepreneurial understanding with social intelligence and inspiring and empowering your team to deliver exceptional results.

You play the role of Visionary, Architect, Coach and Catalyst, living an entrepreneurial spirit. You make decisions and lead your team with purpose and impact.

• GMP & Compliance: Ensuring that the products are manufactured and stored according to the appropriate instructions to maintain the required quality. representation, preparation, monitoring and follow-up of the area during inspections, audits and visits. Ensure the necessary initial and continuous training of staff, as appropriate.
• Asset Care: Assuming the role of plant operator for the relevant assets. Provision of technical support of the assets in the asset team. Ensure technical availability and correct condition of equipment, including qualification, calibration and monitoring. Ensure and continuously increase plant availability in compliance with all technical and regulatory requirements.
• Launches & New Launches: Ensuring operational coordination of launches, transfers and new product submissions (GMP, termination) as well as participation in local and global specialist teams. Participation in team composition and prioritization of team resources. Ensure fast launches and product transfers through close cooperation with MSAT.
• Safety & environmental protection: Ensuring the adequate condition of the structural and equipment conditions as well as compliance with the SGU standards and other work and environmental protection requirements.
• Efficiency, rationalization, improvements: continuously examine processes and processes for optimization potential and further develop them within the framework of efficiency and technology improvement measures. Optimize interfaces and communication with materials management, MSAT, engineering and quality and create synergy potential between assets within the manufacturing unit. Continuously monitor budget and KPI targets as well as plan and execute control measures. Ensure continuous training of the team in the application of LPS methods, with the aim of achieving continuous improvement of quality, efficiency and cost reduction in production.

Who you are

You are a positive thinking, integrity and self-reflective personality with strong communication skills. You are open to the daily challenges of your team members and offer them both personal and personal assistance. As a passionate and authentic coach, you promote the strengths of your employees and strengthen trust within the team through transparency, transfer of responsibilities and an open speak-up and error culture.

You bring a strong passion for employee development and continuous improvement, creating an environment where the team can self-organize assignments and take responsibility for their processes. With your pronounced analytical skills, you also retain orientation in complex topics and contexts. You have a clear goal orientation and think strategically, solution-oriented and entrepreneurially from an end-to-end perspective.

You also have the following competencies and skills

• Completed pharmaceutical, scientific or technical studies or vocational training combined with many years of professional experience
• Significant bio/pharmaceutical professional experience, including cross-functional team management and comprehensive end-to-end expertise in pharmaceutical business management
• Several years of professional experience within the manufacturing unit concerned, basic knowledge of safety, quality systems and quality assurance concepts, including the application of current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs)
• Proven leadership experience and strength in cross-functional team management
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize the PT network and site, and a consistent track record to deliver the required production performance
• Expertise and experience in organizational change management and expertise in creating a long-term vision
• Very good communication skills in word and writing in German and English

Ready for the next step? We look forward to hearing from you. Apply now to discover this exciting opportunity!

This position is in the Global Grade Range of PL7-PL8.

Who we are A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100,000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

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