Manufacturing Operations Manager - Weekend shift

Evotec SE; Toulouse; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Evotec SE in Toulouse is seeking a Manufacturing Operations Manager for weekend shifts (Friday–Sunday) leading a 24/7 biopharmaceutical manufacturing operation, ensuring cGMP compliance, quality and safety on the production floor.

You will drive cross‑functional collaboration, oversee training, investigations, and CAPA, support technology transfers and continuous improvement, and provide strong leadership to day and night teams while ensuring audit readiness.

Qualifications

• Proven people leadership with demonstrated high performance.
• Strong background in biopharmaceutical operations and cGMP compliance.
• Ability to solve technical challenges with data-driven decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead weekend operations across a 24/7 biopharma manufacturing setting.
• Drive operational excellence, training, investigations, validation and compliance.
• Support technology transfers and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensure readiness for audits and regulatory compliance.

Skills

People leadership

cGMP knowledge

Manufacturing ops

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Job Title : Manufacturing Operations Manager - Weekend shift (Friday, Saturday & Sunday)
Localisation : Toulouse (31)
Type de contrat : CDI

We’re excited to share this opportunity is part of the Sandoz acquisition of Just-Evotec Biologics in Toulouse. Through this opportunity you will impact on the lives of hundreds of millions of people through bold ideas supported by an inclusive, agile company culture. Join us to help make healthcare fairer and faster, help us to pioneer access to medicine!

About the Role

As Manufacturing Operations Manager - Weekends, you will lead the successful execution of clinical and commercial biopharmaceutical manufacturing operations, ensuring the highest standards of quality, safety, and cGMP compliance. You will provide leadership across a 24/7 manufacturing environment, supporting day, swing, and night shift operations while maintaining a strong presence on the production floor.

In this role, you will partner with cross-functional teams to drive operational excellence, support manufacturing readiness, resolve technical challenges, and ensure the effective execution of training, investigations, validation, and compliance activities. You will also contribute to technology transfers, process improvements, inspection readiness, resource planning, and continuous improvement initiatives that advance site performance and business objectives.

Weekend-based leadership role supporting a 24/7 manufacturing operation.
Rotating schedule alternating between day-shift and night-shift weekend coverage every other week. On-site presence required.

What You'll Do

• Provide key input in area of Manufacturing Operations expertise that impacts other individuals decisions within the company
• Use technical expertise to design/ implement new equipment, new disposable assemblies, or new molecule projects without guidance of prior protocols.
• Provide technical guidance to others within the company.
• Use technical depth and breadth to develop solutions to deviation investigations, lead CAPA projects, or coordinate more in depth troubleshooting issues where vendors may be involved.
• May lead cross-functional teams within and external to Just.
• Respond to equipment alarms.
• Significantly contribute to controlled documents.
• Present and/or defend data within and external to our organization (audits).
• Communicates logical, organized and clearly written.
• Is a technical resource in multiple operational areas within functional group with a deeper understanding of regulatory requirements.
• Contribute/ lead the implementation of new technology or technical improvements.
• Lead a teams within area of expertise within or external to the company.
• Supervise unit operations within MFG.

Who You Are

• Experienced manufacturing professional with a strong background in biopharmaceutical operations.
• Proven people leader who empowers teams and drives high performance.
• Deep commitment to quality, compliance, and patient-focused manufacturing excellence.
• Strong understanding of cGMP standards and operational best practices.
• Analytical thinker with the ability to solve technical challenges and make data-driven decisions.
• Organized, proactive, and adaptable in a dynamic production environment.
• Excellent communicator who builds effective relationships across functions and leadership levels.

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, 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!

FR : Dans le cadre de sa politique Diversité, Evotec étudie, à compétences égales, toutes les candidatures dont celles des personnes en situation de handicap.

FR : Dans le cadre de sa politique Diversité, Evotec étudie, à compétences égales, toutes les candidatures dont celles des personnes en situation de handicap.

EN: In the frame of our Diversity policy, Evotec considers, with equal competences, all applications including people with disabilities.

IT: In compliance with fundamental ethical and professional principles and with Legislative Decree 198/2006, Evotec is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to fostering a safe, diverse, and inclusive workplace built on mutual respect. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified candidates and employees based on their skills, experience, and professional qualifications. In line with our ethical and professional principles, all employment-related decisions, including recruitment and selection processes, are made fairly and without any form of discrimination. All qualified candidates will be considered for employment regardless of race, color, sex, age, disability, genetic information, gender expression, gender identity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected under applicable law.