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At Cytiva, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.
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Working at Cytiva means being at the forefront of providing new solutions to transform human health. Our incredible customers undertake life-saving activities ranging from fundamental biological research to developing innovative vaccines, new medicines, and cell and gene therapies.
At Cytiva you will be able to continuously improve yourself and us – working on challenges that truly matter with people that care for each other, our customers, and their patients. Take your next step to an altogether life-changing career.
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The Supplier Quality Manager for Cytiva is responsible for the Genomic Medicine scope. You will lead a team of supplier quality associates as they work to eliminate supplier quality defects, support the business growth and apply risk mitigation. Your team leadership will be focused on supporting supplier development through supplier qualification, sustaining supplier quality through auditing and managing supplier change requests. Your role will be critical to the overall continuous improvement of supplier management, process development and cross-functional integration.
This position will be on-site at our Signy Facility (Grens, Vaud) in Switzerland.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to:
Lead the Supplier Quality Engineers (SQE) activities in support of Cytiva Genomic Medicine supplier quality.
Manage supplier quality planning, execution and compliance of work to Cytiva QMS with focus on supplier qualification auditing, supplier monitoring, CAPA/RCA implementation and supplier change management.
Implement an effective operations management within your team that drives adherence to Cytiva and regulatory requirements, ensure timely execution of work, and create continuous team development and process refinement, whilst fostering our DBS culture.
Support Global Sourcing quality initiatives and metrics.
Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to support expansion, risk mitigation and productivity while ensuring supplier quality.
Nurture and sustain a team environment of inclusiveness, diversity and associate development.
The essential requirements of the job include:
Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 8 years of quality related work experience that includes direct experience in supplier quality management.
A self-starter who enjoys driving improvement, leading, collaborating with teams and delivering impact.
A proven dynamic leader who thrives and has a track record of developing teams, driving operational excellence and meeting key performance targets.
Knowledge of supplier quality management work streams including qualification, auditing, change management, CAPA/RCA, QMS development and training program development.
Ability to develop, communicate and implement a strategy to ensure compliance to regulatory and industry requirements.
Effective problem solving, root-cause analytical skills to lead and influence others to drive change (cross-functionally and globally).
Fluency in English (written and spoken) is mandatory; fluency in French will be considered a strong asset.
The desire and ability to travel up to 30%.
It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:
Experience in the biotechnology and/or pharmaceutical industry, preferably both.
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