Site Manufacturing Science and Technology Head (d/f/m) / Vodja proizvodnih znanosti in tehnologij (d/ž/m)

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Sandoz’s strategic investments in Slovenia are not only expanding our manufacturing capabilities — they are shaping the future of science, people, and accessible global healthcare. To bring this vision to life, we are looking for motivated professionals who want to make a meaningful impact.

Our new bioinjectables manufacturing site in Brnik will deliver advanced therapies to patients around the world, with a strong focus on biosimilar medicines that demand exceptional process quality, expertise, and dedication. This is a unique opportunity to help build a brand new facility from the ground up and to contribute your knowledge and experience to solutions that will improve patients’ lives globally.

Join us in co creating the new Manufacturing Science and Technology unit.

We are inviting applications for the position of Head of Manufacturing Science and Technology (d/f/m) at the new biosimilars manufacturing site in Brnik. In this role, you will lead the Manufacturing Science and Technology (MS&T) function at the site, responsible for the scientific and technical introduction of manufacturing processes, technical changes, technology transfers, and validations. Your responsibilities will include stewardship of technical manufacturing processes and products, as well as the overall development of the Manufacturing Science and Technology function.

Your key responsibilities:

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Leading the department: Guiding the team, setting goals, defining the vision, and ensuring employee development and clear career pathways.
• Managing knowledge and standards: Establishing and maintaining standards for technical and scientific processes, ensuring reporting accuracy and readiness for regulatory inspections.
• Product and process stewardship: Providing expert oversight of all products and manufacturing processes throughout the entire lifecycle, and resolving technical challenges in collaboration with local and global teams.
• Oversight of technical changes: Leading change control processes, preparing scientific documentation, and collaborating with health authorities and regulatory stakeholders.
• Validation of manufacturing and cleaning processes: Ensuring the preparation and maintenance of the site’s validation master plan and maintaining continuous validation status of all processes.
• Technology transfers and new product launches: Leading or supporting technology transfers to, within, or from the site and ensuring technical capabilities for successful new product introduction.
• Supporting manufacturing excellence: Developing technical standards, optimizing processes, integrating new technologies, and providing expert support during the start up of equipment and manufacturing areas.
• Training and technical development: Ensuring high quality technical training, updating curricula, and promoting knowledge sharing across the site and the wider organization.

What you will bring to the role:

• A master’s degree in a scientific or pharmaceutical field, chemical engineering, or pharmaceutical technology; a doctoral degree in these areas is an advantage.
• At least 10 years of experience in manufacturing; additional specialist experience is desirable (such as pharmaceutical formulation, process development, or manufacturing technology).
• Proficiency in English.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools.

What we offer:

• Job location: Brnik (Slovenia)
• Contract type: permanent contract with 6-month probation period
• Expected weekly working hours: 40
• Pay range (annual gross salary): EUR 90.880 - 136.320*

‘*Salary at Sandoz is based on job level, qualifications, specific skills, and work experience. Fully proficient candidates are usually placed around the market median, less experienced candidates lower in the range, and those with strong or niche expertise higher. When determining placement within the range, we also consider internal pay equity and external market data.

Our compensation package additionally includes:

• Annual bonus (STI): percentage of annual salary
• Long Term bonus (LTI): percentage of annual gross salary
• Vacation allowance: in 2026 it was €2,450 net
• Christmas bonus: in 2025 it was €2,100 gross
• OurShare: every year, an employee of Lek d.d. will be entitled to receive shares of Sandoz AG
• Voluntary Additional Pension Scheme: The company fully covers the contribution for your supplementary pension plan, amounting to 5.844% of your gross salary
• Collective life and accident insurance (24/7 coverage)
• A hybrid work environment offering flexibility and remote work possibilities – if applicable for position

Ready for your next career move?

You are kindly invited to submit your application in English and Slovene, including a CV, by September 6th 2026.

Why Sandoz?

Sandoz is the global leader in Biosimilar and Generic medicines, a segment of the healthcare industry that delivers 80% of the world’s medicines at 30% of the cost, touching the lives of more than 1 billion people across 100+ countries! While we are proud of our achievements, we have the ambition to do more so that everyone can benefit from the basic human right of good health.

With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape a sustainable future for Sandoz and to help even more people gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines.

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 where diversity of thought is welcomed and where personal growth is supported!

Join us in helping to make healthcare fairer and faster.

The future is ours to shape.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

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

#Sandoz

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Sandoz s strateškimi investicijami v Sloveniji ne gradi le novih proizvodnih zmogljivosti, temveč ustvarja prihodnost – za znanost, ljudi in dostopno globalno zdravstvo. Da uresničimo to vizijo, potrebujemo motivirane strokovnjake, ki želijo pustiti pečat.

Nova proizvodna enota bioinjektabilnih izdelkov na Brniku bo bolnikom po svetu zagotavljala napredne terapije, še posebno na področju podobnih bioloških zdravil, kjer sta vrhunska kakovost in predanost ključni. To je izjemna priložnost, da z znanjem in izkušnjami soustvarjate postavitev novega obrata ter prispevate k rešitvam, ki bodo izboljšale življenja pacientov po vsem svetu.

Pridružite se nam pri soustvarjanju nove enote proizvodnih znanosti in tehnologij.

V svoje vrsta vabimo Vodjo proizvodnih znanosti in tehnologij (d/ž/m) v novi proizvodni enoti podobnih bioloških zdravil na Brniku. V tej vlogi boste odgovorni za vodenje področja proizvodnih znanostih in tehlogij (MS&T) na lokaciji, ki je odgovorna za strokovno uvajanje proizvodnih procesov, tehničnih sprememb, prenosov tehnologij in validacij. Vaša odgovornost bo vključevala skrbništvo nad tehničnimi proizvodnimi procesi in izdelki ter odgovornost za strokovni razvoj MS&T funkcije na lokaciji.
Vaše ključne odgovornosti:

• Vodenje oddelka: Usmerjanje ekipe, postavljanje ciljev, oblikovanje vizije ter zagotavljanje razvoja sodelavcev in jasnih poti napredovanja.
• Upravljanje znanja in standardov: Vzpostavitev ter vzdrževanje standardov za tehnične in znanstvene procese, zagotavljanje poročanja ter pripravljenosti na regulatorne inšpekcije.
• Skrbništvo nad izdelki in procesi: Zagotavljanje strokovnega nadzora nad vsemi izdelki in proizvodnimi procesi skozi celoten življenjski cikel ter reševanje tehničnih izzivov v sodelovanju z lokalnimi in globalnimi ekipami.
• Nadzor nad tehničnimi spremembami: Vodenje postopkov obvladovanja sprememb, priprava znanstvene dokumentacije ter sodelovanje z zdravstvenimi organi in regulatornimi deležniki.
• Validacija proizvodnih in čistilnih procesov: Odgovornost za pripravo in vzdrževanje glavnega načrta validacij ter za to, da so vsi procesi nenehno validirani in skladni.
• Tehnološki prenosi in lansiranje novih izdelkov: Vodenje ali podpora prenosom tehnologij na lokacijo, znotraj nje ali z nje, ter zagotavljanje ustreznih tehničnih zmogljivosti za zagon novih izdelkov.
• Podpora odličnosti proizvodnje: Razvoj tehničnih standardov, optimizacija procesov, vključevanje novih tehnologij in strokovna podpora pri zagonu proizvodnih sistemov in opreme.
• Izobraževanje in tehnični razvoj: Zagotavljanje strokovnega usposabljanja, posodabljanje učnih načrtov ter spodbujanje izmenjave znanja na ravni lokacije in širše organizacije.

Vaš doprinos k delovnem mestu:

• Magisterij znanstvene ali farmacevtske smeri ali magisterij iz kemijskega inženiringa ali farmacevtske tehnologije ali ustrezne izkušnje. Zaželen doktorat iz omenjenih smeri.
• Minimalno 10 let izkušenj v proizvodnji. Dodatne specialistične izkušnje zaželene (npr. farmacevtske formulacije, razvoj procesov, proizvodna tehnologija).
• Aktivno znanje angleškega jezika.
• Poznavanje orodja Microsoft Office.

Kaj nudimo:

• Lokacija dela: Brnik (Slovenija)
• Vrsta pogodbe: pogodba za nedoločen čas s 6-mesečnim poskusnim obdobjem
• Predvideni tedenski delovni čas: 40 ur
• Plačni razpon (letna bruto plača): 90.880 - 136.320 EUR*

'*Plača v Sandozu temelji na nivoju delovnega mesta, kvalifikacijah, specifičnih veščinah in znanjih ter delovnih izkušnjah. Visoko usposobljeni kandidati so običajno umeščeni okoli mediane plačnega razpona, manj izkušeni na spodnji del razpona, kandidati z izrazito močnimi ali nišnimi kompetencami pa višje. Pri umeščanju v plačni razpon upoštevamo tudi notranjo uravnoteženost plač in zunanje tržne podatke.

Naš paket ugodnosti dodatno vključuje:

• Letni bonus (STI): odstotek letne plače.
• Dolgoročni bonus (LTI): odstotek letne bruto plače.
• Regres za letni dopust: leta 2026 je znašal 2.450,00 EUR (neto).
• Božičnica: leta 2025 je znašala 2.100 EUR (bruto).
• OurShare: Vsako leto bo zaposleni v družbi Lek d.d. upravičen do prejema delnic družbe Sandoz AG.
• Prostovoljno dodatno pokojninsko zavarovanje: družba Lek d.d. v celoti krije mesečni prispevek za dodatno pokojninsko zavarovanje v višini 5,844 % vaše mesečne bruto plače (zgornja zneskovna omejitev je 3.224,18 EUR letno).
• Kolektivno življenjsko in nezgodno zavarovanje (kritje velja 24/7).
• Hibridno delovno okolje, ki omogoča fleksibilnost in možnost dela na daljavo. – če to velja za zadevno delovno mesto.

Ste pripravljeni na naslednji korak v karieri?

Prijavo z življenjepisom v angleškem in slovenskem jeziku lahko oddate najpozneje do 6. septembra 2026.

Zakaj Sandoz?

Sandoz je vodilni svetovni proizvajalec generičnih in podobnih bioloških zdravil – segmenta zdravstvene industrije, ki zagotavlja 80 % vseh zdravil na svetu po 30-odstotni ceni ter s tem vpliva na življenja več kot milijarde ljudi v več kot 100 državah. Čeprav smo ponosni na svoje dosežke, si prizadevamo narediti še več, da bi vsakdo imel dostop do temeljne človekove pravice – pravice do dobrega zdravja.

Z naložbami v nove razvojne zmogljivosti, proizvodne lokacije, nove pridobitve in partnerstva imamo priložnost oblikovati prihodnost Sandoza ter še večjemu številu ljudi omogočiti trajnostni dostop do cenovno ugodnih in visokokakovostnih zdravil.

Naš zagon temelji na odprti kulturi sodelovanja, katere srce so naši talentirani in ambiciozni sodelavci in sodelavke. V okolju, kjer so raznoliki načini razmišljanja dobrodošli in kjer se podpira osebna rast, imajo v zameno za uporabo svojih znanj možnost v celoti izkusiti delo v agilnem in povezovalnem okolju ter razvijati svojo uspešno kariero.

Pridružite se nam in nam pomagajte povečati pravičnost in hitrost zdravstvenega varstva.

Prihodnost je v naših rokah.

Predani smo raznolikosti in vključenosti:

Zavzemamo se za raznolikost, enake možnosti in vključenost. Prizadevamo si za oblikovanje raznolikih timov, saj ti predstavljajo naše bolnike in skupnosti, ki jih oskrbujemo.

#Sandoz

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