Manufacturing Support Lead Assembly & Packaging — Roche

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The Position The possibility

In this versatile and strategically important management position, you will lead a highly diverse team of experts within the Manufacturing Unit Assembly & Packaging in Kaiseraugst. Her area of responsibility combines the strategic competencies Building & Development (Training Academy), ensuring and continuously increasing plant availability (Electricians & Automation), securing business processes and system integrations (PSCS), as well as the overarching technical, safety and compliance topics in the area of responsibility (Facility Excellence).

As a leader following the VACC model (Visionary, Architect, Coach, Catalyst), you lead specialists from different disciplines. They create a culture of trust and ownership to ensure stable, highly efficient and absolutely GMP-compliant production through continuous improvements.

They live an uncompromising quality awareness according to the principle of “robustness before speed” and are responsible for the audit readiness for processes, training and system compliance. Through regular on-site Gemba presence, you will establish Lean methods (LPS) in your team to continuously increase stability, efficiency and quality in the production environment.

Professional management of Manufacturing Support

As a lead, you have overall responsibility for performance and goal achievement in the following core areas of your team:

• System Integration & Change Management: Ensuring a stable integration of digital production systems into practice as well as the overarching support of system changes (especially in the partnering systems / non-ASPIRE).
• Business Processes & SAP: Ensuring a smooth and trouble-free implementation of Product Increments in SAP to optimally support production processes.
• Building & Operational Compliance: Coordination and assurance of higher-level compliance activities in the building in order to support as trouble-free, stable production operations as possible in addition to strict GMP compliance. (e.g. QRM (Quality Risk Management), Inspection Management, Data Integrity, Hygiene Concept, Content Management)
• Electrical support: ensuring the qualified and validated status of the installation/system in the performance of maintenance activities (planned and unplanned); further development and standardisation of maintenance processes
• Ensuring and continuously increasing plant availability (working with

Key figures) in compliance with all technical and regulatory requirements

• Who you are

Requirements and qualifications

• Education: Completed pharmaceutical, scientific, technical or business studies – OR comparable professional training with many years of relevant professional experience.
• Management experience: Several years of experience (minimum 5 years) in the management of cross-functional, diverse teams of specialists and experts. Demonstrable competence in the VACC management approach.
• Expertise & interface knowledge: Comprehensive expertise in the GMP-regulated environment, in quality assurance concepts (cGMP) as well as in deviation and change management.
• Sound understanding of the structure of business processes (ideally SAP environment) and system landscapes.
• Basic understanding of regulatory building and compliance requirements in pharmaceutical operations.
• Personality: