Your Key Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• All operational activities regarding planning, initiating and managing of state-of-the-art bioassays for functional characterization of biosimilars (including method development) as well as innovative and tailored nonclinical studies (in vitro, in vivo) at external vendors from set-up to reporting in strict adherence to any applicable guidelines, regulations and laws
• Operational activities for bioassays and nonclinical studies include support with respect to:
• Request for project/cost proposals (RFPs) from external vendors
• Review and negotiation of vendor documents including proposals (study outline, cost proposal), service agreements, and quality agreements
• Contract management
• Vendor qualification
• Sponsor oversight to ensure operational execution of bioassays and nonclinical studies in collaboration with other line functions
• Support cross-functional task forces or sub-teams
• Coordinate review and approval of documents (e.g. qualification/study plans and reports)
• Coordinate drug supply and tracking of samples, data and documentation as well as other Sponsor documentation
• Plan and monitor ETS project budgets
• Support set-up and improvement of quality management system (including SOP generation) for ETS team and ensure a high-level quality standard in ETS processes, including conformity to applicable guidelines (bioassays, GLP)

What you’ll bring to the role:

Essential Requirements:

• Doctorate/BS/MS degree in related scientific discipline
• 2+ years of industry experience in Research and Development
• Excellent project management and research skills
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills
• Experience in effectively negotiating and managing study costs and contracts
• Ability to work in a multi-functional team
• Ability to handle issues with initiative and integrity
• Attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills in English

Desirable Requirements:

• Experience with GLP standards
• Experience with different IT tools (e.g. SAP)
• German is a plus

You’ll receive:

Sandoz has an employee-first approach and that’s why your personal growth is so important to us. You will have access to Coursera and other learning platforms with more than 200,000 learning videos and 5000+ courses.

In addition to the various learning opportunities, we offer company benefits, such as:

• 30 days of annual leave
• Holiday allowance
• Additional rewards for special occasions (e.g. service length awards, marriage celebration, etc.)
• Company pension schemes and capital formation benefits
• Parental leave
• Other offerings, such as bike leasing

Why Sandoz?

Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, provided more than 900 million patient treatments across 100+ countries in 2024 and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!

With investments in new development capabilities, 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 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 supported!

Join us!

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Hiring decisions are only based on the qualification for the position, regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age and disability.

The law provides for severely disabled / equal applicants the opportunity to involve the local representative body for disabled employees (SBV) in the application process. If you would like to request this, please let us know in advance as a note on your CV.