Principal Manufacturing Innovation Strategist (Biopharma Manufacturing)

Location: Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada; remote work is available.

Salary: CAD 121,644–190,069 per year, plus bonus eligibility, stock, and benefits.

Company

BIOVECTRA, part of hirify.global, provides contract development and manufacturing services for active pharmaceutical ingredients and advanced pharmaceutical products, including biologics, small molecules, plasmid DNA, mRNA, LNP, and sterile filling.

What you will do

• Provide technical leadership, coaching, and mentorship to engineering and project teams.
• Guide process scale-up, technology transfer, facility modifications, and lifecycle optimization.
• Develop three- to five-year manufacturing and capital plans with Finance and corporate leadership.
• Evaluate facility expansions, acquisitions, outsourced manufacturing, technology transfers, and strategic partnerships.
• Lead major capital projects from concept through commissioning and qualification within approved scope, schedule, budget, risk, and value targets.
• Advise executives on manufacturing technologies, risks, opportunities, business cases, and enterprise-level engineering initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, biotechnology, biopharmaceutical sciences, chemistry, or a comparable discipline.
• At least 10 years of experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing, with substantial biologics and/or API experience.
• Experience leading complex capital projects and strategic initiatives.
• Thorough knowledge of GMP, Annex 1, ICH guidance, and regulatory expectations from the FDA, EMA, and Health Canada.
• Availability for approximately 10% travel and a regular day shift.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree and/or MBA.
• Professional Engineer designation or equivalent credential.
• Expertise in biologics production and small-molecule API production.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with no specified end date.
• Option to work remotely.
• Eligibility for bonus, stock, and benefits.
• Work focused on improving compliance, quality, capacity, reliability, cost, and long-term manufacturing performance.