Summary
Location: Târgu Mureş, Romania
This role is based in Târgu Mureş, Romania. Novartis is unable to offer relocation support for this role: please only apply if this location is accessible for you.
Join Novartis and help ensure robust, compliant, and continuously improving manufacturing processes across the product lifecycle. As an Manufacturing Science & Technology Expert, you will own process knowledge, lead technology transfers and product launches, and drive validation strategies to keep our therapies safe, reliable, and inspection-ready.
About the Role
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain end-to-end process knowledge and lifecycle oversight for assigned products.
- Lead tech transfers and launch readiness activities, ensuring seamless scale-up and compliance.
- Develop and execute validation strategies (process, cleaning, packaging) aligned with cGMP and regulatory standards.
- Provide technical support, risk mitigation, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure business continuity and quality.
Essential Requirements:
- BSc in Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Technology, Chemistry, or an equivalent scientific degree; MSc desirable or equivalent experience.
- Fluent in English (oral and written).
- 2–3 years of experience in manufacturing, manufacturing science and technology (MS&T), technical development, or quality—ideally within GMP/GxP-regulated environments.
- Experience in GMP-regulated pharmaceutical manufacturing and MS&T.
- Strong skills in process validation, CPV, and statistical data analysis.
- Proven leadership in tech transfer and cross-functional project management.
- Excellent documentation and compliance mindset.
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion / EEO paragraph:
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.
Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
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Benefits and Rewards: Read our handbook to learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally: https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards
Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
Join our Novartis Network: Not the right Novartis role for you? Sign up to our talent community to stay connected and learn about suitable career opportunities as soon as they come up: https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network
Benefits and Rewards: Read our handbook to learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally: https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards
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