Global Head of SHE & S

Siegfried AG

Siegfried AG

Infos sur l'emploi

The Siegfried Group is a global life science company with a network of 12 sites in Europe, the USA, and Asia. Siegfried offers contract development and manufacturing of active pharmaceutical ingredients, intermediates, and drug products and has sales more than CHF 1.3 billion Swiss Franks. Siegfried Holding AG employs over 3,700 people and is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (SIX: SFZN).
Context 
As the Global Head of Safety, Health, Environment & Security (SHE&S) at Siegfried, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring a safe, healthy, and environmentally conscious workplace for our 3700 employees across multiple sites. Own and lead initiatives to establish and maintain robust safety standards, drive environmental sustainability, and ensure the well-being of our workforce.

Your role

Governance
* Continuously improve SHE systems both locally and globally and foster a safety culture. An essential part of this role is to establish and monitor global SHE&S standards on a global basis
* Guide a team of three direct reports, and up to 75 colleagues topic-wise. Bring people in project teams together, form strong topic-based communities withing SHE&S, facilitating the exchange and learning from each other. 
* Streamline global SHE rules. Lead site SHE teams in implementing best practices and compliance measures. Establish KPIs and metrics to measure effectiveness
Projects & Operations
* In this hands-on role, you drive new initiatives and lead projects to success. Help define Siegfried's climate goals and collaborate in teams to achieve them
* Act as Siegfried's SHE&S expert, especially for our five Drug Products sites. You ensure overall compliance with company policies and relevant regulations
* Conduct internal corporate SHE audits and support upcoming external audits. Identify SHE gaps. Coach, enable and empower cross-functional individuals and teams
* Act as the point of contact for SHE&S events and escalations, ensure appropriate resolution and reporting.

Your profile

Skills and Experience
* Extensive experience in SHE&S management in the pharmaceutical or related industry is our most important criterion for this role. It will help you to identify optimization potential and act as a sparring partner for our organization.
* Strong project management skills and a track record of driving initiatives to completion
* A technical background in fields such as chemical engineering, pharmacy, medicine, environmental science or comparable gives you a good idea of our topics
Personal Competencies
* Proven ability to navigate dynamic environments and lead change initiatives. You enjoy a hands-on role and atmosphere paired with strategic work
* Excellent communication skills in both English. If you speak either German or French or or Spanish on top, this would be a nice to have 
* For this global role, you are able to structure and balance many topics at the same time

Working at Siegfried

* Structured onboarding process
* Generous vacation allowance of 30 days
* On-site cafeteria with a diverse menu
* Flexible working hours
* Company-sponsored Retirement plan
* Employee discounts through our benefits portal
* Access to company healthcare services
* Ongoing training and leadership development programs
* Participation in the employee stock ownership plan

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 Zofingen

Zofingen is the hub of the Siegfried Group. The production facility at our Zofingen headquarters supplies our customers around the globe with exemplary Swiss quality. The Siegfried company is a popular employer in the Zofingen region, where we meet our social responsibility by training apprentices.

Main activities

  • Development and commercial manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and corresponding intermediates
  • Fully compliant with cGMP and SHE (Safety, Health and Environmental) standards

Special features

  • Manufacture of high potency active ingredients in development and production
  • Micronization in development and production

Strategic importance

  • Contract manufacturing of new active ingredients

Contact

  • Siegfried AG