Analytical Sciences & Technology Manager

• Location: Waterford
• Job type: Fixed Term 23 months

About Waterford

For more than 20 years, our Waterford team has continued to grow and diversify to serve patients around the world. Today, a team of almost 800 work together at a state-of-the-art biopharmaceutical and medical device campus. Recognised through multiple local and national awards, Sanofi Waterford offers flexible working and access to a world of opportunities to grow your career at one location. As well as attractive benefits, the team enjoy access to an onsite gym and medical centre that underpin a strong commitment to health and wellbeing.

About the job

Our Team:

We deliver 4.3 billion healthcare solutions to people every year, thanks to the flawless planning and meticulous eye for detail of our Manufacturing & Supply teams. With your talent and ambition, we can do even more to protect people from infectious diseases and bring hope to patients and their families.

Working Relationship

• Key Internal Contacts: Senior Leadership Team (SLT), Extended Leadership Team (ELT), QA Department, QC Department, Validation, Program Managers
• Key External Contacts: Research & Development, Clinical, Regulatory groups, Manufacturing Sciences and technology (MSAT) groups, SME’s

Purpose of Role

• Leads the Analytical Sciences & Technology department
• Co-ordinates external communication to the wider network
• Centre of excellence mandate – maintain cutting edge science and technology and influence site strategy and investment based on sound science

Main responsibilities:

• Develop a technical roadmap for both career development and site capability across the analytical spectrum
• Maintain and develop new network relationships based on product portfolio (now and in the future)
• Accountable for delivering Method Transfers, development to validation
• Accountable for delivery of the site ALCM process
• Provide inputs into the QC annual capital program planning based on horizon projects in the network
• Enable AST method knowledge support to QC and manufacturing for investigations and deviations
• Manage AST spend to budget
• Manage departmental goals & objectives to enable site strategic business objectives
• Identify and implement CI projects in support of improved ways of working
• Establish and maintain a comprehensive always audit readiness plan for analytical sciences group
• Ensure laboratory areas meet current Good Laboratory Practices (cGLP) requirements
• Ensure relevant procedures are correctly defined and followed
• Ensure that critical chemical testing and related equipment meets current validation requirements (IQ/OQ/PQ) where required
• Ensure safety & compliance standards are maintained to the highest standard
• Maintain internal / external audit ready standards.
• Maintain training compliance

About you

• Minimum degree in Science (Chemistry or Biochemistry preferred)
• Ideally – MSc pr PhD in a relevant discipline
• 10+ years’ experience should be in a laboratory environment – ideally part of which would be in the pharma or biopharma sector
• Excellent leadership skills with ability to influence and affect change
• Detailed knowledge of Biopharma analytical methodologies and technologies
• Deep understanding of requirements for cGXP, ICH requirements and pharmacopoeia methods
• Understanding of current regulatory requirements and trends
• Ability to manage projects to plan/budget
• Excellent & efficient communicator at organisation, team and individual levels
• High energy, commitment and flexibility
• Advanced problem-solving skills in a technical environment
• Ability to develop a high performing organisation interpret site strategies into executable plans
• Comfortable leading across multiple stakeholders & multinational teams

Why choose us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team
• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally
• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact
• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave
• Play an instrumental part in creating best practice within our manufacturing facility
• Our Waterford site is easily accessible from the M9 and offers excellent facilities including a subsidized restaurant and newly refurbished gym

Pursue progress. Discover extraordinary.

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

Visas for those who do not already have the right to work in the UK will be considered on a case by case basis according to business needs and resources.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

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