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Job Description
At Sandoz, our goal is not just to increase access, but to do so in a sustainable and responsible way:
- finding the right balance between guaranteed quality, reliable supply and appropriate pricing. Our aim is to excel at all three, ensuring we never compromise on quality.
- to protect our environment (carbon footprint, natural resources), as well as to champion diversity, equity and inclusion across our company and beyond.
The HSE Program Excellence Specialist will lead and coordinate a broad spectrum of work activity concurrently. They will be responsible for simplification of HSE tools, practices and programs to drive standard work and efficiency through continuous improvement.
This is a key enabling role requiring visionary thinking, strong project management skills, and ability to use data to drive decision to drive sustainable improvement while supporting other HSE activities as assigned to help build one successful HSE organization.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Ability to identify and ultimately lead projects throughout their life cycle.
- Lead continuous improvement and simplification projects to drive efficiency, standardisation and risk reduction.
- Able to support functional data management. Have strong analytical and critical thinking skills to use data to enable trend analysis helping optimise systems and processes as well as provide insight to performance.
- Drive innovation and excellence to deliver best in class HSE performance, using leading technologies and visual management.
- Lead critical learning sessions such as Global Read Across.
- Coach and mentor HSE community to deliver program excellence.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple issues with competing priorities.
- Remain current and/or develop competencies specific to work-scope.
What you need to bring to the role:
- Occupational Health and Safety degree or Project Management degree or technical equivalent from an accredited university/college.
- Fluent English and solid communications skills (verbal and written).
- Ability to work in a matrix environment, influence and motivate diverse teams to achieve a unified goal.
- Confidently able to facilitate and deliver a variety of HSE topics and/or presentations to a diverse audience.
- ISO certification experience, preferable in one or more of: 14001, 45001, 19011.
- Have demonstrated Lean competency.
- Additional language skills.
- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.
- Based in one of the hiring locations.
Why Sandoz?
Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, provided more than 900 million patient treatments across 100+ countries in 2024 and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!
With investments in new development capabilities, 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 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 supported!
Join us!
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.
Join our Sandoz Network: If this role is not suitable to your experience or career goals but you wish to stay connected to hear more about Sandoz and our career opportunities, join the Network here: Sandoz Talentpool (novartis.com)
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Skills Desired
Auditing, Change Control, Effectiveness, Efficiency, Environment, Health And Safety (Ehs), Hse Management Systems, Knowledge Of Capas, Knowledge Of Gmp Including Gdp, Leadership, Occupational Hygiene, Occupational Safety and Health, Operations, Risk Management, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Training
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Novartis is an innovative medicines company. Every day, working to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives so that patients, healthcare professionals and societies are empowered in the face of serious disease. Our medicines reach more than 250 million people worldwide.
