MSAT Site Lead Synthetics Schaffhausen (Pharmaceutical Manufacturing)

Location: Based in Schaffhausen, Switzerland; up to approximately 10% domestic and international travel.

Company

Johnson & Johnson MedTech develops healthcare and medical technology solutions across the spectrum of healthcare.

What you will do

• Lead and develop the Schaffhausen MSAT team, setting priorities, deploying resources, and translating global and site strategies into local objectives.
• Own technical support for synthetic drug substance and solid oral drug product portfolios, including process monitoring, troubleshooting, risk assessment, and lifecycle improvement.
• Lead product introductions, scale-up activities, technology transfers, major changes, fit-to-plant assessments, documentation, and validation.
• Partner with Operations and Value Chain teams to improve process capability, yield, capacity, cost, and supply resilience.
• Govern process validation, cleaning validation, continued verification, investigations, CAPAs, and inspection or audit readiness.
• Drive standardization, lean practices, data analytics, PAT, automation, capital project support, and technology deployment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, or a related discipline; an advanced degree is preferred.
• At least 8 years of relevant pharmaceutical manufacturing, process development, technical operations, or MSAT experience.
• Strong knowledge of synthetic drug substance and solid oral drug product processes, including their interdependencies.
• Experience with technology transfer, lifecycle management, process or cleaning validation, and continued process verification.
• Strong knowledge of GMP, regulatory expectations, quality systems, process safety, EH&S, and related compliance requirements.
• Fluent English and German required, together with demonstrated people and change leadership in a global matrix organization.

Nice to have

• Leadership of multidisciplinary teams supporting both Drug Substance and Drug Product operations.
• Experience with inspections, capital projects, advanced manufacturing technologies, data analytics, and lean principles.
• Ability to build effective internal and external partnerships.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive work environment grounded in integrity, accountability, and respect for individual contributions.
• Global and site-level collaboration across MSAT, Operations, Quality, Value Chain, and subject-matter expert networks.
• Opportunity to improve manufacturing robustness, sustainability, speed, cost, and competitiveness.
• Domestic and international travel of up to approximately 10% is expected.