Manufacturing Transformation Lead (Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing)

Location: Basel, Switzerland; the role is based in Basel and requires full-time onsite work.

Company

hirify.global manufactures medicines across more than 30 sites on five continents and works in life sciences, biotechnology, and advanced manufacturing.

What you will do

• Align platform, R&D, and Strategic Innovation roadmaps across Integrated Biologics, Advanced Synthesis, and Specialized Modalities.
• Translate scientific and process evolution into future manufacturing concepts, operating requirements, and cost implications.
• Lead Manufacturing Transformation pilots, beginning with Mammalian DS and Bioconjugation DS, using unit-cost diagnostics and future-state design.
• Identify and prioritize process, equipment, automation, data, facility, laboratory, and operating-model interventions.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary platform, site, and functional resources and synchronize requirements with Program Integration & Scale-Up.
• Convert pilot learnings into reusable manufacturing concepts and design principles for replication across platforms, sites, and future builds.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Chemical Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations Management, or a related discipline.
• Ability to translate scientific, process, and technology roadmaps into integrated future manufacturing concepts, design principles, and operating requirements.
• Strong understanding of biopharmaceutical manufacturing science, process technologies, operations, and GMP requirements, including facility and operating-model implications.
• Ability to diagnose cost and productivity drivers, quantify improvement potential, and use manufacturing economics to guide concept choices and pilot priorities.
• Ability to integrate process technology, automation, data, facility design, people, and operating-model considerations into a coherent future-state concept.
• Demonstrated ability to mobilize and align multidisciplinary teams across platforms, sites, and global functions without direct authority.
• Ability to communicate complex future-state concepts, trade-offs, evidence, and recommendations clearly to senior business, technical, and operational stakeholders.
• Experience structuring hypotheses, decision criteria, risks, and dependencies for complex pilots and driving timely issue resolution.
• Ability to convert pilot evidence into reusable manufacturing concepts, operating principles, and replication recommendations.
• Fluent English.

Culture & Benefits

• Agile career opportunities and a dynamic work culture.
• Inclusive and ethical workplace with a focus on collaboration, accountability, excellence, passion, and integrity.
• Performance-based compensation programs and a competitive salary.
• Lifestyle, family, and leisure benefits.
• Relocation support for eligible candidates.