MSAT Site Lead Synthetics

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Job Function:

Supply Chain Engineering

Job Sub Function:

Process Engineering

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Schaffhausen, Switzerland

Job Description:

MSAT Site Lead, Synthetics Drug Substance & Drug Product (Schaffhausen)

The MSAT Site Lead provides technical and people leadership for Schaffhausen's Synthetics Drug Substance and solid oral Drug Product portfolio. The role ensures compliant, reliable, and competitive delivery across product introduction, technology transfer, lifecycle management, validation, investigations, and process performance.

As the single point of accountability for site MSAT, the leader represents Schaffhausen in global and site forums and partners across functions to strengthen product robustness, inspection readiness, supply reliability, and value delivery.

• Lead and develop the Schaffhausen MSAT team, setting priorities and deploying resources effectively.
• Translate global MSAT, Synthetics platform, and site strategies into measurable local objectives, governance, and risk management.
• Provide the technical voice in site and global leadership forums and promote an end-to-end DS-DP approach through shared standards and knowledge.

• Own technical support for the commercial portfolio, including process monitoring, troubleshooting, risk assessment, and lifecycle improvement.
• Lead new product introductions, scale-up, transfers, and major changes, including fit-to-plant assessment, documentation, validation, and cross-functional governance.
• Partner with Operations and Value Chain teams to improve process capability, yield, capacity, cost, and supply resilience.
• Lead or support complex investigations, ensuring robust root-cause analysis, effective CAPAs, and organizational learning.
• Act as Technical Owner where appropriate or oversee Technical Owners within the team.

• Provide governance for process validation, cleaning validation, continued verification, and applicable MSAT content in the Site Validation Master Plan, in partnership with site Quality and global subject-matter experts.
• Support health authority inspections and internal or customer audits; serve as MSAT presenter or lead for relevant processes and technical topics.
• Ensure adherence to current GMP, quality systems, process safety, EH&S, environmental, and SOX requirements, with timely escalation and resolution of risk.

• Drive process excellence through standardization, lean practices, data analytics, PAT, automation, and other fit-for-purpose technologies.
• Sponsor improvements that enhance robustness, sustainability, speed, cost, and competitiveness.
• Provide MSAT support for capital projects and technology deployment through qualification and operational readiness.
• Use internal and external networks to identify…