Mgr, Manufacturing Operations

Evotec WD; Toulouse; On-site; EUR 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Evotec is seeking a Manufacturing Operations Manager for the weekend shift (Friday, Saturday & Sunday) in Toulouse. You will lead 24/7 biopharmaceutical manufacturing operations, ensuring cGMP compliance, quality, and a safe production floor.

The role involves cross-functional collaboration, training, and continuous improvement initiatives. You will manage weekend teams, support manufacturing readiness, and drive process improvements while maintaining site performance and regulatory readiness.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in biopharmaceutical operations.
• Proven people leadership and high-performing teams.
• Commitment to quality, compliance and patient-focused manufacturing.
• Strong knowledge of cGMP standards.
• Analytical thinker with data-driven problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Provide input in manufacturing operations to impact decisions across the company.
• Design/implement new equipment or processes with technical depth and autonomy.
• Provide technical guidance to colleagues across functions.
• Lead investigations, CAPA projects, and cross-functional troubleshooting.
• Lead teams within and outside the company on projects.
• Respond to equipment alarms and ensure documentation is controlled.
• Present data during audits and regulatory interactions.

Skills

People leadership

Biopharma operations

Quality & compliance

cGMP

Data-driven decisions

Communication

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.

Just – Evotec Biologics, wholly owned by Evotec SE, is a first-to-industry biologics platform that leverages AI/ML technologies and world-leading molecular design, cell line development, process intensification and continuous manufacturing strategies to advance biotherapeutics from discovery through clinical stages to commercial launch. The Just – Evotec Biologics team combines deep industry experience in the fields of data, protein, process, and manufacturing sciences including automation with highly integrated and flexible capabilities to break through the scientific and economic barriers associated with the development of protein therapeutics. Our focus is to accelerate and expand access to biotherapeutics through scientific and technological innovation for our proprietary projects and on behalf of our partners.

Learn more at www.just-evotecbiologics.com.