Head Quality Control / Head of Quality Control (m/f/d)

At its worldwide locations, Siegfried offers its employees exciting career opportunities in an international environment. We foster multidisciplinary collaboration and encourage our employees to actively shape and influence their careers. This approach, combined with our dynamic work environment, makes Siegfried an attractive employer.

Your Role

You are responsible for securing, controlling, and enforcing the quality policy of Siegfried AG. You ensure the quality requirements within the Analytics department, taking into account cGMP, ICH, PIC-GMP, and 21CFR. In this role, you are a member of the Site Leadership Team, which represents the management of our Zofingen site. In this responsibility, you ensure the exchange of information between the Zofingen site and the overall analytics division.

• Technical and personnel leadership and further development of laboratory staff (QC / QCIP)
• Responsibility for efficient personnel and equipment planning and utilization
• Ensuring timely processing of analyses of in-process controls, raw materials, intermediate and final products, as well as stability studies or special samples, in compliance with all regulatory requirements
• Development and implementation of continuous improvement measures
• Approval of specifications, analytical methods, and intermediate products
• Ensuring the execution of sampling and stability investigations in the Drug Substances area
• Ensuring cGMP-compliant working methods and documentation in the analytical laboratories
• Main responsibility for accompanying audits by regulatory authorities and customers
• Increasing operational analytical performance
• Ensuring and controlling specifications, release specifications, certificates, analysis regulations, sampling plans, and equipment qualifications

Your Profile

• Completed studies in Organic Chemistry or Analytical Chemistry
• At least 5 years of leadership experience in a QC environment
• Solid knowledge of GMP- and GLP-regulated environments as well as in managing laboratory and analytics teams
• Experience in ensuring the highest quality standards and process optimization along the entire value chain
• Very good German and good English skills

Your Personal Strengths

• High independence and goal- and solution-oriented working style characterize your approach
• You are customer-oriented, show initiative, and are accustomed to taking responsibility
• You enjoy improving internal processes within your area of responsibility to increase efficiency and serve your internal customers
• Your communication skills and resilience enable you to keep a cool head even in demanding situations

What We Offer You

• Flexible working hours enable the compatibility of family, leisure, and work
• You can park with us at a discounted rate
• Health insurance: discounts of up to 10% on supplementary insurance with our partners
• Generous and individually customizable stock purchase plan
• Child allowance: Siegfried AG increases the child allowance by 10% compared to the cantonal legal rate and additionally pays you CHF 100 monthly
• Individual training opportunities
• Reka money: Siegfried AG grants employees a 20% discount
• Attractive company pension fund
• Staff restaurant / cafeteria: meals at preferential conditions
• Central location: close to the train station with very good public transport connections

Working at Siegfried

The working environment at Siegfried is dynamic and international. With a highly professional and motivated team, the company operates in a future-oriented business field. Siegfried has a unique culture that leverages cultural differences to gain a competitive advantage. Siegfried places the highest value on a flexible, diverse, and discrimination-free work environment where employees can develop personally and professionally, drive innovation, and deliver top performance. We strive to create a work environment where employees can take on challenging tasks and associated responsibilities that best serve their personal and professional development and benefit from the success of our company. The company policies regarding compensation and development opportunities apply equally to all Siegfried locations. Additional working conditions are based on site-specific circumstances, legislation, and customs.

Who We Are

In the midst of people's lives - across the world The Siegfried Group is one of the world's leading Custom Development and Manufacturing Organizations (CDMOs) that develop and produce pharmaceutical active ingredients (API), intermediates, and finished dosage forms. As our core competence, we successfully integrate chemical and pharmaceutical expertise into a single business model. The name Siegfried stands for highest quality, efficiency, flexibility, and safety. With locations in Europe, Asia, and North America, we serve a broad global customer base, from large international pharmaceutical companies to small biologic-pharmaceutical companies. For them, we develop and produce product innovations on a large scale up to the finished product. We seamlessly integrate our offering into the customers' value chain. Our comprehensive range of services extends from early research and development services such as synthesis, scale-up, formulation development, stability studies, and method development to production services ranging from preclinical R&D material for clinical trial purposes to commercial production. We are capable of manufacturing about 200 of the approximately 1500 registered drugs used in medicine. Additionally, we produce 20 percent of the global demand for caffeine. Nearly 1 billion people come into contact with Siegfried products.

What We Do in Zofingen

At our headquarters in Zofingen, we develop and produce active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) and corresponding intermediates. This also includes the production of highly potent active ingredients. Furthermore, we offer chemical process development as well as pharmaceutical services. We supply our global customers with exemplary Swiss quality and operate fully in compliance with cGMP and SGU standards.