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The Position

At the Basel Drug Substance Manufacturing site, 650 employees work on the production of innovative active ingredients for clinical and commercial supply. In our three production units – MAB, ADC, and SUT – you can expect exciting tasks in the biological production environment and valuable insights into GMP production from start to finish.

The Opportunity

Are you passionate about manufacturing and looking for a meaningful leadership role?

In this position, you will be part of the Drug Substance organization. You are a member of the Site Leadership Team and are responsible for overseeing the end-to-end Make Assess Release (MAR) process of a specified technology within the given site, through the given scope of production.

The Manufacturing Unit Lead will be fully accountable for all critical metrics and outcomes of the Manufacturing Unit, ensuring alignment with DS strategic goals, including Right First Time (RFT), On-Time Delivery (OLT), cost management, and maintaining an engaged workforce. This role involves building and leading a forward-thinking approach in collaboration with stakeholders and other Unit Leads, encompassing the network, site, and Manufacturing Unit. Additionally, the Manufacturing Unit Lead is responsible for creating an environment conducive to robust manufacturing execution and continuous improvement.

Your main accountabilities will include:

• Collaborating with peers to balance requirements across one's own and other Manufacturing Units removes barriers within and across Units

• Ensuring Supply Chain resilience and agility for fast time-to-launch

• Responsible for the management of the discretionary Manufacturing budget

• Leading a multi-disciplinary cross-functional team with a wide range of expertise (including Operators, Mechanics, Quality functional specialists) and multiple hierarchical levels to ensure ‘right- first-time’ and a short order lead-time by implementing a customer-oriented lean end-to-end mentality

• People leadership of cross-functional teams within the Manufacturing Unit, in accordance with the Roche People Practices

• Ensuring succession planning is completed, i.e. for the area of responsibility identify key positions, review regularly having potential succession candidates identified and job profiles up to date

• Ensuring that all business-critical resources, expertise, capabilities and mindset are available

• Collaborating with the PT network and site partners to ensure overall PTM production strategy and commitments are met

Who you are

Do you bring several years of relevant bio /pharmaceutical experience, including cross-functional group management and end-to-end Pharma business execution expertise, and are you looking for an impactful role? We are seeking an individual with a fundamental working knowledge of safety, quality systems, and quality assurance concepts, including the application of current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs). You bring a Lean mindset, and you are an end-to-end thinker with a focus on continuous improvement. This entails the ability to implement, coach, and apply Lean and agile ways of working.

The Manufacturing Unit Lead must have the ability to inspire change without relying on positional authority and a proven experience in working across functions to achieve deployment goals. In addition, you bring strong capability in building clarity and focus, along with the ability to remove obstacles that hinder the achievement of the shared vision, which are essential.

Qualifications / Requirements:

• BS/BA degree in life sciences, physical sciences, engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience. Post Graduate-level course work, including management training (e.g. an MBA) is favorable

• Strong creative leadership skills according to the Visionary, Architect, Coach, Catalyst (VACC) model, and shown ability to build a forward-thinking outlook; remove barriers, develop people and technical capabilities; build an environment which enables people to perform at their best

• Organizational change management expertise and experience in the creation of a long-term vision for a respective department

• Ability to deliver at a high level in an environment that exhibits significant ambiguity and the absence of precedent

• Outstanding communication skills (English and German), at both a global and local level, to include presenting to regulatory authorities as needed

• Builder of an ambitious shared vision and higher purpose for the Manufacturing Unit, create an environment where people are allowed and encouraged to collaborate with one another in service to the vision

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Who we are

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