Job Description

Band

Level 4#LI-Hybrid
Location: Muttenz, Switzerland
Relocation Support: This role is based in Muttenz, Switzerland. Novartis is unable to offer relocation support: please only apply if accessible.

Drive the performance and reliability of pharmaceutical manufacturing processes and make a direct impact on patients worldwide. As a Product Steward, you will own process knowledge end-to-end, ensuring every stage meets the highest quality standards. Working across teams and sites, you will turn data into insight, enabling robust, compliant, and continuously improving processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end process knowledge across the product lifecycle, acting as single point of contact
• Monitor process performance through statistical data trending and analysis of critical variables
• Ensure products remain in a validated state through ongoing process verification and control strategy oversight
• Lead and support root cause investigations, driving implementation of corrective and preventive actions
• Evaluate product performance, identify risks, and initiate and lead continuous improvement and optimization projects
• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure effective knowledge sharing across teams and manufacturing sites
• Assess technical changes, define validation scope, and support regulatory and process compliance activities
• Support new product launches providing technical expertise during the different project phases and authoring supporting documentation
• support transfers out of products under own responsibility through the appropriate documentation and supporting at the receiving site as needed

Essential Requirements

• Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry or a related scientific field
• Minimum 3 years of experience in drug substance manufacturing or process support
• Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practice and regulatory requirements
• Solid understanding of manufacturing processes, process validation and change control
• Experience with data analysis, applied statistics, and interpretation of process data
• Proven ability to work across functions and collaborate with diverse teams
• Proficiency in German and English (written and spoken)

Desirable Requirements

• Experience in oligonucleotide manufacturing or development

Accessibility and accommodation

Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to receive more detailed information about the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to diversity.inclusion_ch@novartis.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.

Skills Desired

Applied Statistics, Change Control, Data Analytics and Digital, GDP Knowledge, gmp knowledge, HSE Knowledge, Manufacturing Process, Manufacturing Production, Manufacturing Technologies, Operational Excellence, Process and Cleaning Validation, Process Control, Quality Compliance, Regulatory Compliance, Resilience and Risk Management, Technical Leadership, Technology Transfer