Job Description Summary
#LI-HybridLocation: Targu Mures, Romania
Relocation Support: This role is based in Targu Mures, Romania. Novartis is unable to offer relocation support: please only apply if accessible.
Step into a role where your leadership truly shapes how a modern laboratory operates and evolves. As the Quality Operational Excellence (OpEx) and Project Management Office (PMO) Manager, you’ll guide high‑impact initiatives that elevate compliance, reliability, and performance across the Central Testing Laboratory. You’ll connect strategy with action—selecting, prioritizing, and delivering improvement projects that help teams work smarter, faster, and more efficiently. This is an opportunity to influence key decisions, empower teams through continuous improvement, and build sustainable ways of working that strengthen the lab’s long‑term success.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
Lead the Quality and Laboratory project portfolio aligned with site priorities and strategic objectives.
Drive PMO governance, ensuring clear charters, stage‑gates, reporting, and consistent project execution standards.
Execute cross‑functional improvement projects that enhance compliance, reliability, speed, and cost effectiveness.
Apply Lean and Six Sigma methods to strengthen laboratory performance and right‑first‑time results.
Optimize resource and budget planning in collaboration with Finance and key stakeholders.
Build continuous improvement capabilities through coaching, training, and structured problem‑solving routines.
Define and track key performance indicators to inform decisions and resource allocation.
Foster a strong Quality and continuous improvement culture through communication, engagement, and change leadership.
Essential Requirements:
Degree in Industrial Engineering, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Pharmacy, or a related scientific discipline.
Fluent English communication skills, with Romanian language proficiency preferred for local collaboration.
Experience delivering projects within a regulated industry such as pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, or medical devices.
Proven track record in process improvement within Quality, Quality Control, or laboratory operations.
Strong capability in managing scope, performance indicators, and structured project planning.
Skilled in applying Lean and Six Sigma tools, including structured analysis and problem‑solving methods.
Advanced analytical skills with ability to translate data into clear operational decisions.
High proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook.
De ce să luăm în considerare Novartis?
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Skills Desired
Collaboration, Communication Skills, Data Integrity, Dealing With Ambiguity, Decision Making, Digital saviness, Health & Safety Regulations Knowledge, Leadership, Operational Excellence, Organizational Saviness, Problem Solving Skills, Regulatory Requirements knowledge, Smart Risk TakingTop Skills
What We Do
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.
