Job Description Summary
Sandoz is going through an exciting and transformative period as a global leader and pioneering provider of sustainable Generic and Biosimilar medicines.
Now as an independently listed company, Sandoz aims to increase its strategic focus, operate with greater agility, set clearer business objectives, enhance shareholder returns, and strengthen its culture for us, the Sandoz associates. This is an exciting time in our history, and by creating a new and ambitious path, it will provide a unique opportunity for us all, both professionally and personally.
Join us as a Founder of our ‘new’ Sandoz!
Job Description
Your Key Responsibilities:
1. Plan, organize, perform and document scientific experiments/activities, e.g. the development and qualification of in vitro cell-based and immunoassays for functional protein characterization, under supervision/in collaboration with experienced team members.
2. Schedule and perform maintenance, qualification, calibration and cleaning of analytical instruments/equipment.
3. Actively maintain laboratory inventory (e.g. chemicals, standards, consumables) within own area of responsibility.
4. Work according to appropriate standards as defined in Quality Manual, SOPs, ethical, health, safety, environment (HSE), and information security (ISEC) guidelines.
5. Provide documentation of raw data, evaluate results for method development and/or qualifications of routinely applied methods or procedures. Follow organizational procedures.
6. Support interpretation and reporting of results and troubleshooting, if needed.
7. Support optimization of existing methods/processes.
8. Write documents, e.g. basic laboratory procedures/SOPs or study plans and reports based on templates under supervision.
9. Contribute to report writing (e.g. by preparation of tables and figures).
10. Address and solve problems within own assigned area of responsibility. Recognize and communicate issues (e.g. deviations and unexpected results from experiments).
11. Contribute to development of new methods/processes and reproduce published methods/processes or optimize existing methods under supervision.
12. Collaborate within own and with other groups.
What you’ll bring to the role:
Essential Requirements:
1. Apprenticeship (e.g. CTA, MTA), or BSc in Biology, Biotechnology or related Natural Sciences (or equivalent technical education).
2. Good communication skills in English.
3. Good practical experience with cell-based bioassays as well as bioanalytical techniques (e.g. ELISA, ECL immunoassays, flow cytometry, luminescence).
4. Experience with assays using primary cells is a plus.
5. Awareness for safe handling of chemicals, potentially dangerous materials.
6. Adequate theoretical and scientific knowledge in the relevant area.
7. Adequate knowledge of relevant software and computer tools (at least Excel, Word, PLA is a plus).
8. Good documentation skills and able to understand and exactly follow written procedures.
9. Experience with working in a regulated environment is a plus.
10. German is a plus.
You’ll receive:
Sandoz has an employee-first approach and that’s why your personal growth is so important to us. You will have access to Coursera and other learning platforms with more than 200,000 learning videos and 5000+ courses.
In addition to the various learning opportunities, we offer company benefits, such as:
1. 30 days of annual leave.
2. Holiday allowance.
3. Additional rewards for special occasions (e.g. service length awards, marriage celebration, etc.).
4. Company pension schemes and capital formation benefits.
5. Parental leave.
6. Other offerings, such as bike leasing.
Why Sandoz?
Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, touched the lives of almost 500 million patients last year 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!
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.
Hiring decisions are only based on the qualification for the position, regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age and disability.
The law provides for severely disabled / equal applicants the opportunity to involve the local representative body for disabled employees (SBV) in the application process. If you would like to request this, please let us know in advance as a note on your CV.
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Skills Desired:
Environment, Health And Safety (Ehs), Laboratory Equipment, Manufacturing Process, Materials Science, Process Simulation, Sop (Standard Operating Procedure).
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