Country Switzerland
City Evionnaz
Functional Area Research & Development
Job Group AD/QC/RD/ENV
Employment Type Permanent Contract
Working time Full-time
At its locations around the world, Siegfried offers employees exciting career opportunities in international settings. We cultivate multidisciplinary cooperation and encourage our staff to actively shape and influence their careers. This approach, coupled with our dynamic working environment, make Siegfried an attractive employer.
Your role
The Process Development Manager will oversee the Process Development team, drive innovation, and ensure alignment with company goals and industry standards. This role focuses on process optimization, team leadership, and cross-department collaboration to meet economic, ecological, and regulatory requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead Process Development:
- Manage the team to develop and implement new processes that meet economic and environmental standards.
Drive Innovation:
- Introduce new technologies (e.g., PAT) and promote continuous process improvements with cross-functional teams.
Foster Continuous Improvement:
- Identify process optimizations while ensuring regulatory and safety compliance.
Client & Departmental Coordination:
- Represent the company in customer meetings and ensure clear communication across internal teams.
Project Management:
- Track and manage project timelines, milestones, and budgets, ensuring alignment with company objectives.
Team Leadership:
- Coach, mentor, and manage the performance of the Process Development group, fostering a collaborative work environment and professional growth.
Technical Oversight:
- Guide laboratory operations, ensuring processes are safe, compliant, and efficient.
Your profile
- PhD in Organic Chemistry
- Proven experience in process development and team management.
- Strong project management skills.
- Expertise in regulatory standards and safety compliance.
- Excellent communication and leadership abilities.
Working at Siegfried
Siegfried's work environment is dynamic and international. With a highly professional and motivated team, the company operates in a future-oriented business field. Siegfried possesses a unique culture that leverages cultural differences to create a competitive advantage. Siegfried places highest priority on providing a flexible, diverse and discrimination-free working environment in which employees can develop personally and professionally, advance innovation and deliver superior performance. We strive to provide a work environment where employees can take on challenging jobs and associated responsibilities that best serve their personal and technical development and can benefit from the success of our company. The company regulations in respect of compensation and career development opportunities apply to all Siegfried sites. Additional conditions of employment are governed by location-specific circumstances, legislation and customs.
Who we are
In the Midst of People’s Lives – Across the Globe The Siegfried Group is one of the world’s leading Custom Development and Manufacturing Organizations (CDMOs) developing and producing active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), intermediates and finished dosage forms. As our core competence, we successfully integrate chemical and pharmaceutical capabilities into a single business model. The Siegfried name stands for highest quality, efficiency, flexibility and safety. Present in Europe, Asia and North America, we serve a broad global customer base from major international pharmaceutical companies down to small biologic-pharmaceutical organizations. For them we develop and produce product innovations on a large scale to finished products. We integrate our offer seamlessly into the customers’ value chain. Our comprehensive services range from early-stage Research & Development services such as synthesis, scale-up, formulation development, stability studies and method development all the way through to manufacturing services, ranging from preclinical R&D material for clinical trial purposes to commercial production. We are able to produce about 200 of the approximately 1500 registered drug substances used in medicine. Moreover, we produce 20 percent of global demand for caffeine. Consequently, nearly 1 billion individuals come into contact with Siegfried products.
What we do in Evionnaz
Siegfried Evionnaz is a facility specialized in custom synthesis of active ingredients and intermediates for the pharmaceutical industry. The chemicals plant, built in 1957, employs around 350 people in a wide variety of fields, ranging from production, laboratories and logistics to quality assurance, administration and more.
Main activities
- Development and production in strict compliance with quality standards (GMPs)
- Ensuring perfect compliance with safety, health protection and environmental standards
Unique features
- 6 GMP production units (315 m³) with reactors from 0.5 to 8 m³
- 2 Pilot and Kilolab installations with reactors of up to 1,000 liters
- Flexible, multi-product production lines
- Broad portfolio of technologies: azide chemistry, organometallics, cryogenics, phosgenation and more.
Strategic impact
- Facility highly specialized in niche technologies
- Development capacity: from 1 gram to industrial quantities