Head of Manufacturing Sciences

Skills

On the Global Manufacturing and Supply (GMS) team at Takeda, you’ll be part of a rapidly transforming industry that’s applying technology and data in new ways. Within our agile, innovative, people-centric organization, your work will matter every day as you use your skills to help us manufacture therapies for patients on our four platforms:

• Small Molecules
• Biologics
• Plasma
• Cell and Gene

As part of the GMS team, you'll have the opportunity to pursue unique experiences and build new skills, and you'll know that the work you do every day makes an impact — on our patients, our people, our planet, and on yourself.

Job ID: R0144564

Date posted: 02/12/2025

Location: Neuchâtel, Canton of Neuchâtel

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Job Description

About the role:

The primary mission of the position is to provide technical, scientific support to commercial manufacturing operations of multiple recombinant protein therapeutics in order to meet the plant goals in terms of yield, capacity and quality - specifically to ensure high process performance, capacity utilization and success rate.

• Select, develop, retain and provide general/technical leadership to a team of doctorate and/or high professional level engineers/scientists/project managers, in their assigned project activities.
• Efficient & effective manufacturing support and troubleshooting for all products at the site, incl. support to other sites and CMOs. Address in timely manner the business issues with a good balance on technical solving and transactional processes (communication, alignment) including MS Labs and Analytical Sciences Lab.
• Accountable for process yield and success rate targets.
• Coordinate product impact assessments related to process deviations and non-conformities in order to support product disposition decision.
• Identify, evaluate, select and support the implementation of opportunities for process improvement, or process robustness at commercial scale, together with Global, Manufacturing Sciences and Project Management functions.
• Provide input to the technology innovation strategy.
• Support Regulatory submissions, and Compliance inspections.
• Comply with c-GMPs and other regulatory, Takeda requirements.
• May perform other duties as assigned.

How You Will Contribute

• Recruiting, Developing and Motivating the team in the direction of having a high performing and self-directed team
• Facilitating the resolution of complex and business impacting technical or scientific process issues
• Decisions that have a local impact can be taken, those with a global impact or other sites have to be discussed with the manager.

What You Bring To Takeda

• Bachelor’s degree in a scientific discipline with at least 15 years or relevant experience
• MS with at least 10 years or PhD with at least 8 years of relevant experience
• Several years technical and leadership experience
• Resource and budget management
• Strategic development experience

More About Us

With over 700 employees, Takeda Neuchâtel is one of the ten largest employers in the Canton of Neuchâtel, and one of the leading biopharmaceutical production sites in Switzerland. Operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, the site employs a wide range of professionals trained in biotechnologies and their application to industrial production.

With over twenty nationalities, Takeda Neuchâtel offers an international, diverse and innovative working environment within a company that is firmly rooted in and committed to its local ecosystem.

Takeda Neuchâtel is certified as a Training Company by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs. We train young apprentices in a variety of fields, including laboratory quality control, logistics, IT and biopharmaceutical production.

Locations: CHE - Neuchatel

Worker Type: Employee

Worker Sub-Type: Regular

Time Type: Full time

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