Manufacturing Manager

Location: Netherlands

SIRE® is the market leader in Life Sciences recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continuous innovation. We like technology, in a Life Sciences market driven on science, we couldn’t stay behind; we drive Recruitment Science. Investing a majority of our turnover in technology enables us to use unique Resource Technologies. By using highly advanced algorithms, we enable our team of Resource & Data Strategists© to maintain the most advanced, detailed and complete Life Sciences network in Europe. This big data enables us to work Reverse Recruitment©: we first analyze the market in-depth before we go out to the market. Because we analyze the whole market, we can compare facts and data. This enables us to do Facts & Big Data Recruitment©, making sure we, or better yet, you find the right career!Our client is a professional Pharmaceutical organisation, based in Noord-Brabant Netherlands.

The Company

We are proud to be known for our extremely reliable delivery of medicines to our patients. We are one of the biggest biotech pharmaceutical companies that develops and introduces more and more new medicines to serve patients all over the world. In combination with our primary focus on affordable healthcare, we are constantly improving our production systems & processes. Our manufacturing environment is growing in a fast pace in terms of production volumes, -variability and complexity.

The Manufacturing department contains a group of motivated team members that work every day on our beautiful mission to serve our patients timely with high quality products in safe operational environment. The Manufacturing Manager has a key role to lead, coach and develop production teams divided over 9
production lines. Each production team is typically set-up with the following roles; process operators, technical operators and line leads. Safety, (product) quality, delivery, inventory and productivity and key aspects in our manufacturing environment. This will be achieved in close collaboration with internal- and external stakeholders.

Role Description

The Manufacturing Manager plays a critical role in the performance of his teams and readiness to face our future challenges in manufacturing. This role participates a leading role in setting up team standards, drives a continuous improvement mindset, set standards, liaises & collaborates with key stakeholders,
takes ownership of the utilization & (desired) performance of his teams, develops his staff, strives to an error proof work environment and leads by example in a well-regulated (GMP & GDP) environment.

Responsibilities

- Ensure flawless execution of (complex) Manufacturing processes per procedure and time- & performance schedule
- Develop high performance teams
- Drive continuous improvement to increase productivity and efficiency per functional metric
- Mature safety awareness- and ownership culture
- Ensures audit (compliance) readiness and fosters that staff members work according our SOPs to be fully compliant per Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).

Requirements

- Bachelor degree Industrial Engineering via education or by experience.
- Background in Manufacturing (pre: packaging)
- 3+ years’ experience in comparable role in a highly regulated environment (can be from outside Pharma) or ready for your next career step after having done similar activities formultiple years, with evidence of excellent leadership- and people-management skills.
- Solid background in accurate documenting and managing high performance teams
- Familiar with GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) and GDP (Good Documentation Practice)
- Fluency in written and verbal Dutch and English
- Willingness to work in shifts (due to the growth of our organisation the shift schedule might change in the future, currently we work in a 2 or 3 shift schedule)

Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Windimi Post.