Head of Manufacturing Support
Publication date:
08 August 2024Workload:
100%Contract type:
Permanent position- Place of work:Bulle
Make your mark for patients
We are looking for a Head of Manufacturing Support who is eager to join us in our pharmaceutical, chemical, and biotechnological production site, office based in Bulle, Switzerland.
About the role
As the Head of Manufacturing Support your main role is to support the site operations and to consolidate the operational performance.
In this role, you will be part of the UCB Switzerland leadership team.
The position entails directly overseeing 8 direct reports, while the department comprises around 40 employees.
What you’ll do
- Lead the team of manufacturing support (including people development).
- Ensure optimal transversal support to all operational departments.
- Provide visibility on Operations performance.
- Provide methodological expertise to maximize projects outcome and reduce impact of major failures on business.
- Ensure consistent and efficient implementation of technical changes.
- Align governances and processes with UCB Global Manufacturing Excellence Team.
- Anticipate and mitigate potential major HSE events.
Interested? For this role we’re looking for the following education, experience and skills
- Master’s degree.
- 5 to 7 years’ experience in Senior Management roles within Pharmaceutical, Chemical or Biotech industry.
- Excellent understanding of a manufacturing plant subject to cGxP regulations and good knowledge on interactions between functions.
- Excellent understanding of financial flows, GMP & Regulatory environment.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Agility and pragmatism.
- Ability to translate the vision, mission, and strategy of key stakeholders into projects and actions (top-down).
- Ability to identify and to implement opportunities of improvement in line with the vision, mission, and strategy (bottom-up).
- Experience in trouble shooting management.
- Challenges the status quo, shows openness to innovative ideas, and takes decisions.
- Connects and encourages cross functional teams (inclusive team player), taking initiatives out of comfort zone.
- Communicates and cooperatives in a positive, authentic, and inspiring way.
- Comfortable with transversal/matrixial management.
- Engaged and leading Health, Safety & Environment, initiatives.
- Is committed to integrate UCB ambitions for sustainability taking into consideration: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; Health, Safety & Well Being; Ethic & Compliance; Environment.
- Languages: excellent French and English.
Are you ready to ‘go beyond’ to create value and make your mark for patients? If this sounds like you, then we would love to hear from you!
About us
UCB is a global biopharmaceutical company, focusing on neurology and immunology. We are around 8,500 people in all four corners of the globe, inspired by patients and driven by science.
Why work with us?
At UCB, we don’t just complete tasks, we create value. We aren’t afraid to push forward, collaborate, and innovate to make our mark for patients. We have a caring, supportive culture where everyone feels included, respected, and has equitable opportunities to do their best work. We ‘go beyond’ to create value for our patients, and always with a human focus, whether that’s on our patients, our employees, or our planet. Working for us, you will discover a place where you can grow, and have the freedom to carve your own career path to achieve your full potential.
UCB and its subsidiaries encourage diversity and inclusion in the workplace; we are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race/color/religion/sex/national origin/veteran/disability/age/sexual orientation/gender identity.
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