Senior Expert Science and Technology (DPPL role for LP team)

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Your responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Oversee and lead all activities of assigned teams/projects: meet customer needs
• Lead initiatives to ensure continuous improvement; all activities have to be aligned with organizational workflows and procedures.
• Manage day to day operations of development lab including resource and budget planning.
• Evaluate and interpret results, draw relevant conclusions; supervise project related activities; perform complex tasks with or without having established procedures (establish new procedures).
• Oversees and may also write protocols, scientific reports, lab procedures or process related SOPs; write scientific documents intended for external partners or for generation of registration documents; interact with authorities.
• Communicate, address and solve problems within own and broader area of responsibility; communicate effectively across organizational interfaces; lead the transfer of know how to other departments or external contractors, including troubleshooting and on-site training.
• Lead lab automation, leverage new technologies including planning of investments and budgets, contribute to innovation and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Foster scientific mindset and innovation in team e.g. PAT implementation and technology knowledge foundation.
• Develop complex methods (lab or plant); lead the optimization of project related scientific /technical activities or processes, co-ordinate local team(s); guide development and implementation of new technologies.
• Lead assigned teams; represent own technical function in teams and fulfill all project tasks and responsibilities related to the own discipline.
• Broadly uses professional concepts in accordance with company objectives to solve complex problems in creative and effective ways.
• Contributes to many costs center goals and objectives; may contribute to service line goals
• Influences/persuades others and work according to appropriate SOP's. GLP, GMP, OQM, HSE, ISEC and Novartis Guideline.

Minimum requirements

WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE ROLE:

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