Job Description Summary

Job Description

With its strategic investments in Slovenia, Sandoz is not just building factories – we are building the future: for science, for people, and for global healthcare. To bring this vision to life, we are looking for dedicated, motivated, and passionate professionals who will contribute their knowledge and commitment to co-create a story of success. 

As Technical Steward I (d/f/m), you will provide expert support to production on process-specific topics across one or more manufacturing steps. Your goal will be to ensure timely execution of processes, continuous improvement of quality and productivity, all in compliance with current GMP guidelines, standard procedures, and applicable functional standards. You will contribute to improving existing technologies and implementing new, innovative processes. Additionally, you will support knowledge transfer between functions and manufacturing sites, providing technical expertise in line with legislation, internal regulations, best practices, and business objectives.

Your key responsibilities:

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Technology stewardship: Responsible for assigned technologies and ensuring compliance with internal and global standards.
• Technical support and optimization: Provide expert support to production, resolve deviations, and lead projects for process optimization and implementation of new technologies.
• Collaboration with global and local teams: Facilitate knowledge transfer across functions, sites, and the global MS&T network, and contribute to the introduction of new technical standards.
• Equipment selection and qualification: Contribute to defining user requirements and provide technical expertise for equipment qualification and investment projects.
• Validation and product launch: Prepare validation reports and provide technical support for validation activities and product transfer to commercial manufacturing.
• Training and development: Manage training plans and deliver technical training programs.
• Scientific and technical excellence: Present technical work at internal and external conferences and contribute to benchmarking and implementation of new technologies.
• Compliance and safety: Ensure readiness for inspections and adhere to all requirements for safe work, environmental protection, and asset security.

What you will bring to the role:

• University degree in pharmacy, pharmaceutical technology, chemistry, or another relevant scientific field. A master’s degree in these areas is preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of work experience in supporting processes in manufacturing, manufacturing science and technology, technical development, or quality.
• Proficiency in English and knowledge of the local language.

What we offer:

• Job location: Ljubljana and Brnik, Slovenia
• Contract type: permanent contract with 6-month probation period
• Expected weekly working hours: 40 hours/week
• *Pay range: 38.640 - 57.960 EUR gross yearly

*Salary at Sandoz is based on job level, qualifications, specific skills, and work experience. Fully proficient candidates are usually placed around the market median, less experienced candidates lower in the range, and those with strong or niche expertise higher. When determining placement within the range, we also consider internal pay equity and external market data.

Our compensation package additionally includes:

• Annual bonus (STI): percentage of annual salary

• Vacation allowance: in 2026 it was €2,450.00 net
• Christmas bonus: in 2025 it was €2,100 gross
• OurShare: every year, an employee of Lek d.d. will be entitled to receive shares of Sandoz AG
• Voluntary Additional Pension Scheme: The company fully covers the contribution for your supplementary pension plan, amounting to 5.844% of your gross salary
• Allowance for shift work (15%); rotational shifts (20%), night shift work (70%), Sunday/public holiday work (50%), overtime work (30%) – i*f applicable for position
• Collective life and accident insurance (24/7 coverage)
• A hybrid work environment offering flexibility and remote work possibilities – *if applicable for position

Ready for your next career move?
You are kindly invited to submit your application in English and Slovene, including a CV, by November 4th, 2026.

Why Sandoz?

Sandoz is the global leader in Biosimilar and Generic medicines, a segment of the healthcare industry that delivers 80% of the world’s medicines at 30% of the cost, touching the lives of more than 1 billion people across 100+ countries! While we are proud of our achievements, we have the ambition to do more so that everyone can benefit from the basic human right of good health.

With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape a sustainable future for Sandoz and to help even more people gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines.

Our momentum is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues who, in return for applying their skills, experience an agile and collegiate environment where diversity of thought is welcomed and where personal growth is supported! 

Join us in helping to make healthcare fairer and faster.

The future is ours to shape.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and to forming diverse teams that are representative of the patients and communities we serve. 

#Sandoz

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Sandoz s svojimi strateškimi investicijami v Sloveniji ne gradi le tovarn, temveč prihodnost – za znanost, za ljudi in za globalno zdravstvo. Da bi to vizijo uresničili, potrebujemo zavzete, motivirane in srčne strokovnjake, ki bodo s svojim znanjem in predanostjo soustvarjali zgodbo uspeha. 

Kot Ekspert procesnih tehnologij I (d/ž/m) boste zagotavljali strokovno podporo proizvodnji pri vprašanjih, povezanih s specifičnimi procesnimi koraki. Vaša naloga bo pravočasna izvedba procesov ter stalno izboljševanje kakovosti in produktivnosti, skladno z GMP smernicami, standardnimi postopki in veljavnimi predpisi. Sodelovali boste pri optimizaciji obstoječe tehnologije, uvajanju novih procesov ter prenosu znanja med funkcijami in proizvodnimi lokacijami. Vaše delo bo temeljilo na zakonodaji, internih pravilih, dobrih praksah in poslovnih ciljih.

Vaše ključne odgovornosti:

• Skrbništvo za tehnologijo: odgovornost za dodeljene tehnologije ter zagotavljanje skladnosti z internimi in globalnimi standardi.
• Tehnična podpora in optimizacija: nudenje strokovne podpore proizvodnji, reševanje odstopov ter vodenje projektov za optimizacijo procesov in uvajanje novih tehnologij.
• Sodelovanje z globalnimi in lokalnimi ekipami: prenos znanja med funkcijami, lokacijami in globalno mrežo MS&T ter sodelovanje pri uvajanju novih tehničnih standardov.
• Izbor in kvalifikacija opreme: prispevati k opredelitvi uporabniških zahtev, zagotavljati strokovno znanje za kvalifikacijo opreme in investicijske projekte.
• Validacija in lansiranje: priprava validacijskih poročil ter zagotavljanje strokovne podpore pri validacijskih aktivnostih in prenosu izdelkov v komercialno proizvodnjo.
• Izobraževanje in razvoj: skrb za učne načrte in tehnična izobraževanja.
• Znanstvena in tehnična odličnost: predstavljanje strokovnega dela na internih in zunanjih konferencah ter prispevati k primerjavi in uvajanju novih tehnologij.
• Skladnost in varnost: zagotavljati pripravljenost na inšpekcijske preglede ter upoštevati vse zahteve za varno delo, varovanje okolja in premoženja.

Vaš doprinos k delovnem mestu:

• Univerzitetna diploma iz farmacije, farmacevtske tehnologije, kemije ali druge ustrezne znanstvene smeri. Zaželen magisterij iz omenjenih smeri..
• 'Minimalno 5 let delovnih izkušenj pri podpori procesov na področju proizvodnje / proizvodne znanosti in tehnologije / tehničnega razvoja / kakovosti.
• Aktivno znanje angleškega jezika in znanje lokalnega jezika.

Kaj nudimo:

• Lokacija dela: Ljubljana in Brnik, Slovenija
• Vrsta pogodbe: pogodba za nedoločen čas s 6-mesečnim poskusnim obdobjem
• Predvideni tedenski delovni čas: 40 ur/teden
• *Plačni razpon: 38.640 - 57.960 EUR bruto letno

*Plača v Sandozu temelji na nivoju delovnega mesta, kvalifikacijah, specifičnih veščinah in znanjih ter delovnih izkušnjah. Visoko usposobljeni kandidati so običajno umeščeni okoli mediane plačnega razpona, manj izkušeni na spodnji del razpona, kandidati z izrazito močnimi ali nišnimi kompetencami pa višje. Pri umeščanju v plačni razpon upoštevamo tudi notranjo uravnoteženost plač in zunanje tržne podatke.

Naš paket ugodnosti dodatno vključuje:

• Letni bonus (STI): odstotek letne plače.
• Regres za letni dopust: leta 2026 je znašal 2.4350,00 EUR (neto).
• Božičnica: leta 2025 je znašala 2.100 EUR (bruto).
• OurShare: Vsako leto bo zaposleni v družbi Lek d.d. upravičen do prejema delnic družbe Sandoz AG.
• Prostovoljno dodatno pokojninsko zavarovanje: družba Lek d.d. v celoti krije mesečni prispevek za dodatno pokojninsko zavarovanje v višini 5,844 % vaše mesečne bruto plače.
• Dodatek za izmensko delo (15 %); turnusno delo (20 %), nočno delo (70 %), delo ob nedeljah in praznikih (50 %), nadurno delo (30 %) – *če to velja za zadevno delovno mesto.
• Kolektivno življenjsko in nezgodno zavarovanje (kritje velja 24/7).
• Hibridno delovno okolje, ki omogoča fleksibilnost in možnost dela na daljavo. – *če to velja za zadevno delovno mesto.

Ste pripravljeni na naslednji korak v karieri?
Prijavo z življenjepisom v angleškem in slovenskem jeziku lahko oddate najpozneje do 04.11.2026

Zakaj Sandoz?

Sandoz je vodilni svetovni proizvajalec generičnih in podobnih bioloških zdravil – segmenta zdravstvene industrije, ki zagotavlja 80 % vseh zdravil na svetu po 30-odstotni ceni ter s tem vpliva na življenja več kot milijarde ljudi v več kot 100 državah. Čeprav smo ponosni na svoje dosežke, si prizadevamo narediti še več, da bi vsakdo imel dostop do temeljne človekove pravice – pravice do dobrega zdravja.

Z naložbami v nove razvojne zmogljivosti, proizvodne lokacije, nove pridobitve in partnerstva imamo priložnost oblikovati prihodnost Sandoza ter še večjemu številu ljudi omogočiti trajnostni dostop do cenovno ugodnih in visokokakovostnih zdravil.

Naš zagon temelji na odprti kulturi sodelovanja, katere srce so naši talentirani in ambiciozni sodelavci in sodelavke. V okolju, kjer so raznoliki načini razmišljanja dobrodošli in kjer se podpira osebna rast, imajo v zameno za uporabo svojih znanj možnost v celoti izkusiti delo v agilnem in povezovalnem okolju ter razvijati svojo uspešno kariero. 

Pridružite se nam in nam pomagajte povečati pravičnost in hitrost zdravstvenega varstva.

Prihodnost je v naših rokah.

Predani smo raznolikosti in vključenosti:

Zavzemamo se za raznolikost, enake možnosti in vključenost. Prizadevamo si za oblikovanje raznolikih timov, saj ti predstavljajo naše bolnike in skupnosti, ki jih oskrbujemo. 

#Sandoz

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