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The future is ours to shape.
Job Description
Sandoz is a leading company in the production of biosimilars, committed to shaping the future of healthcare. With our cutting-edge technology and unwavering dedication, we are revolutionizing the accessibility and affordability of vital biologic medicines. Join us in our mission to make a lasting impact on patients’ lives while driving innovation in field of biosimilars.
We're looking for a highly motivated individual to lead the Project Management Office (PMO), driving critical projects and ensuring operational excellence.
Your key responsibilities:
Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Lead Site-Wide Project Management Office (PMO): Oversee critical projects, drive process standardization, and ensure operational readiness and profitability of the site.
- Operational Readiness Planning: Develop and implement detailed project plans for site capabilities and new product introductions, ensuring seamless integration into operations. Accountable for the timely execution of the plan
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Direct and align cross-functional teams to manage complex projects, ensuring synchronization between site leadership, department heads, and organizational capabilities.
- Performance Monitoring & KPI Management: Establish and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for quality, delivery, and financial performance across site operations to drive continuous improvement.
- Strategic Project Execution: Guide and lead high-complexity project plans, ensuring proper resource allocation, capital expenditure planning, and execution.
- Visits, Audit & Compliance Management: Manage corporate and external non-GMP audits, and stakeholder visits, ensuring adherence to regulatory, quality, and business requirements.
- Program & Project Ownership: Take full ownership of site programs and projects, ensuring successful delivery and realization of business benefits.
- Business Case Development & Value Tracking: Lead the preparation of project business cases, monitor KPIs, and track value realization to support informed decision-making.
- Strategic Partnership & Organizational Growth: Collaborate with business domain leaders and technology peers to shape a high-performing organization that continuously delivers value.
- Change Management & Stakeholder Engagement: Act as a change agent, fostering collaboration between business and technology domains to ensure seamless program and project execution.
- Performance Analysis & Continuous Improvement: Track and analyze business, product, and solution KPIs against business objectives, technological capabilities, and quality standards to drive ongoing enhancements.
What you will bring to the role:
- University degree in business, computer science, information technology, science, manufacturing or other relevant field
- Minimum 10 years of working experience in industry, healthcare or pharma manufacturing.
- Fluent in English.
- Knowledge of the local language is not mandatory.
You’ll receive:
Employment at the most reputable employer in Slovenia offers Competitive salary, Annual bonus, Flexible working schedule, tailored to your needs, possibility to work from home, Pension scheme, Employee Recognition Scheme, Expanded program for the promotion of health in the field of physical, mental and social well-being (Energized for Life), Unlimited learning and development opportunities.
Possible job locations: Lendava, Slovenia
We offer temporary contract with the possibility of extension for an indefinite period with a probationary period of 6 months.
You are kindly invited to submit your application in the English language, including your CV by April 13, 2025.
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:
Sandoz is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse team’s representative of the patients and communities we serve.
Join our Sandoz Network: If this role is not suitable to your experience or career goals but you wish to stay connected to hear more about Sandoz and our career opportunities, join the Network here:
https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/sandoztalentpool
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Novartis is an innovative medicines company. Every day, working to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives so that patients, healthcare professionals and societies are empowered in the face of serious disease. Our medicines reach more than 250 million people worldwide.
