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MS&T Head Anti-Infectives (d/f/m) | Kundl, AustriaJob Description
MS&T Head Anti-Infectives (d/f/m) | Kundl, Austria
Sandoz is going through an exciting and transformative period as a global leader and pioneering provider of sustainable Biosimilar and Generic medicines. By creating a new and ambitious path, it will provide a unique opportunity for us all, both professionally and personally. Join us, the future is ours to shape!
The MS&T Head (d/f/m) Kundl leads the site’s MS&T organization, ensuring strong scientific oversight of manufacturing processes and technical changes, maintaining and enhancing technical knowledge and capabilities, and securing robust product and technical stewardship across all process units and site functions.
Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Lead the MS&T organization, ensuring quality, compliance, and continuous improvement across all technical operations.
- Ensure robust product stewardship with end-to-end technical oversight of all products and manufacturing processes.
- Assign and oversee technical ownership (product stewards, process experts, packaging experts) for all products and operations.
- Strengthen process robustness by driving process improvements and resolving technical issues with site and global teams.
- Manage technical changes and change control activities, ensuring cross-functional alignment and regulatory compliance.
- Act as site technical interface with Health Authorities and review or release regulatory content as required.
- Own validation and technical transfer activities, including the Validation Master Plan, ongoing process verification, and product transfers.
- Lead MS&T people and organizational development, including career paths, succession planning, training, talent pipelining, and knowledge management.
What you’ll bring to the role:
- Master’s degree in pharmacy, engineering, chemistry, biology, or equivalent professional experience.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in the pharmaceutical or life science industry within a GMP environment, ideally in commercial manufacturing.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in operations management and execution.
- Strong background in Operational Excellence, with lean or OpEx qualifications preferred.
- Proven ability to drive quality and compliance improvements across an organization.
- Experience leading large, multidisciplinary teams with strong organizational and cultural awareness.
- Excellent communication skills in German and English, including written, verbal, and presentation abilities.
- High adaptability and resilience, with strong collaboration skills and the ability to manage pressure.
You´ll receive:
- Attractive salary with incentive program
- Modern company pension scheme
- 14 weeks of paid parental leave
- Additional days off (bridge-days)
- Subsidized meals in our canteen
- Company Kindergarden and summer camps for children
- Wellbeing & mental health offers
- Learning and development options for your personal and professional growth
- Worldwide career opportunities
In accordance with Austrian law, we are obliged to disclose the minimum salary as stated in the collective bargaining agreement. For this position the minimum salary is EUR 87.418,66/year (on a full-time basis).
The actual salary will be significantly higher, as we strive to maintain a competitive position in the market and consider your previous experience, qualifications and individual competencies.
Why Sandoz?
Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, provides more than 800 million patient treatments to over 700 million patients every 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 are 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!
Are you ready to join us? Then we look forward to your application!
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and fostering diverse teams, that represent the patients and communities we serve.
If you require assistance during the application process due to a medical condition, physical disability, or a neurodiverse condition, please contact us at [email protected].
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Skills Desired
Skills Required
- Master's degree in pharmacy, engineering, chemistry, biology, or equivalent professional experience.
- Minimum 10 years' experience in the pharmaceutical or life science industry within a GMP environment (ideally commercial manufacturing).
- Minimum 5 years' experience in operations management and execution.
- Strong background in Operational Excellence and driving continuous improvement.
- Lean or Operational Excellence qualifications.
- Proven ability to drive quality and compliance improvements across an organization.
- Experience leading large, multidisciplinary teams with strong organizational and cultural awareness.
- Excellent communication skills in German and English (written, verbal, presentation).
- High adaptability, resilience, strong collaboration skills, and ability to perform under pressure.
Sandoz Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sandoz and has not been reviewed or approved by Sandoz.
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Healthcare Strength — Health, dental, vision, and prescription coverage are consistently described as core components across U.S. roles and materials. Feedback suggests the medical offering is broad and a standard pillar of the package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan with a company match described as generous is commonly included for U.S. roles. This savings support is positioned alongside other primary benefits as part of total rewards.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity eligibility is noted for many positions and a global all‑employee share program is being introduced from 2026. These elements add upside beyond base salary and annual bonus.
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Sandoz is the global leader in generic and biosimilar medicines. Our Purpose is to pioneer access to medicines for patients globally. We are on a mission to drive innovation in the healthcare industry by freeing up resources sustainably and responsibly while continuing to address global health challenges such as antimicrobial resistance. We are present in more than 100 countries and our medicines serve some 500 million people every year. We have two main global businesses: Generics - divided between standard generics and complex generics - and Biosimilars.
