Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• You are responsible for shift supervision, team coordination planning and support of  a packaging organization
• You will be jointly responsible for the daily realization of the planned production targets, according to existing procedures in order to ensure quality and productivity. You will ensure a good communication flow top down and bottom up.
• You are the first level support for incident and deviation reporting during manufacturing.
• You will jointly manage a team of more than 80 employees, you will take care of the division and play a coaching role. You will also provide training and education.
• You are responsible for the production lines and follow-up of efficiencies. Moreover, you will be involved in optimizing the production process (in terms of capacity, quality, productivity, costs...) in a strongly people-oriented environment.

What you’ll bring to the role:

• A degree in a scientific / technical direction (university or equivalent, eg bio-engineer, industrial engineer,,...) or equivalent by experience
• At least 2 years of professional experience in pharma and / or a production environment.
• A first experience with peoplemanagement.
• A pleasant and friendly personality, you know how to put people at ease, you are highly empathic.
• Stress resistance in a dynamic environment and capability to cope with quickly changing priorities in the plan.
• Human knowledge, good logical reasoning skills, good organizational and coordination talent and the capacity to devise and implement process improvements in a creative way.
• Excellent knowledge (speaking and writing) of English and Dutch.

Why Novartis

Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we

Achieve This? With Our People. It Is Our Associates That Drive Us Each Day To Reach Our Ambitions. Be a Part Of This Mission And Join Us! Learn More Here

http://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

Commitment To Diversity And Inclusion

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

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Benefits and Rewards:
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