Project Manager in Heidelberg bei AGC Biologics

AGC Biologics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Asahi Glass Company (AGC), is one of the industry leading CDMOs in reliability, technical excellence, and quality — Right and On Time. AGC is a $12B Japanese-owned and publicly traded company based in Tokyo with over 50,000 employees in 30 countries.

With facilities in the USA, Japan, Denmark, Italy and Germany, AGC Biologics provides fully integrated biopharmaceutical development and manufacturing solutions to clients globally. The Company has proven expertise in delivering custom solutions for the scale-up and cGMP manufacture of protein-based therapeutics for pre-clinical, clinical, and commercial production.

AGC Biologics is experiencing growth in customer base and revenue, expanding personnel, development and manufacturing capacity as well as distinguishing itself in the market with unique technology offerings for clients.

Job Summary:

Our Project Management team is looking for an experienced Project Manager for our Heidelberg facility.

The Project Manager leads the orderly progression of projects from the proposal stage through project completion by interacting with the client, technical team and business development team. This role provides program direction and manages timelines and project controls across internal functional and organizational lines as well as with external clients.

Responsibilities

As Project Manager your responsibilities will be:

• Provide necessary program direction for planning, organizing, developing and integrating projects across multiple functional areas.
• Closely monitor/control project progression to ensure that the project is completed on schedule and within budget.
• Report project progress to all key stakeholders.
• Support the technical team to investigate any project challenges by necessary risk assessment tools & techniques, then implement corrective measures.
• Serve as liaison with client contacts, manage day-to-day communications and organize project team meetings.
• Represent company in project meetings, prepare meeting agenda and minutes, and follow up on action items.
• Evaluate and assess project results and provide recommendations for future improvements.
• Prepare Project Change Orders with inputs from key stakeholders.
• Effectively build project teams.
• Cultivate effective communication, cooperation and trust with client.

Qualifications

The qualifications we are looking for in our new Project Manager are:

• Strong and effective project management skills, with a proven track record working cross-functionally across a wide variety of technical, business and operational areas.
• M.Sc. or Ph.D. in life sciences or chemistry.
• Fluent English and excellent communication skills.
• Basic knowledge of business administration.
• Willingness to accommodate to requirements of a global enterprise including flexible working time and occasional business trips.
• Relevant pharmaceutical or biotech industry experience in CMC process development and/or GMP manufacturing are preferred.

For further information please contact our Director Project Management, Dr. Christian Koch at ckoch@agcbio.com.

We will process the applications in the order they arrive. Therefore please submit your application and CV as soon as possible and no later than April 12th 2024.