Value Stream Manager - Cartridge Filling

Mylan Teoranta

Viatris is a global healthcare company uniquely positioned to bridge the traditional divide between generics and brands, combining the best of both to more holistically address healthcare needs globally. With a mission to empower people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life, we provide access at scale, currently supplying high-quality medicines to approximately 1 billion patients around the world annually and touching all of life's moments, from birth to the end of life, acute conditions to chronic diseases.

We have been included on number of award lists that demonstrate the impact we are making.
 

Our global portfolio includes best-in-class, iconic brand-name products as well as global key brands; generics, including branded and complex generics; and other offerings across a wide range of therapeutic areas. We are committed to helping create healthier communities worldwide through education, outreach and better access to treatment.

For those driven to live their lives with purpose, Viatris helps employees realise their full potential by creating a collaborative culture that fosters courage and resilience. Viatris is more than just a place to work. This is a place to make a difference in the world.

The Role & What You Will Be Doing

As Value Stream Manager – Cartridge Filling, you will support the delivery of 3-year commercialization program for a new cartridge-filling product line, providing manufacturing expertise for the manufacturing execution of a sterile cartridge filling line. The role is responsible for establishing and leading the production team, ensuring successful scale-up from development through validation and commercial launch while maintaining the highest standards of safety, quality, compliance and operational excellence.

The successful candidate will build, develop and manage a high-performing team of operators, working closely with Engineering, Quality & MS&T to deliver project milestones and achieve commercial readiness.

This is a hands-on leadership role requiring strong expertise in aseptic processing, sterile manufacturing operations and team development.

Every day, we rise to the challenge to make a difference and here’s how the Device Equipment Engineer role will make an impact:

• Lead manufacturing activities associated with development, scale-up, process validation and commercial launch of a sterile cartridge filling line.
• Ensure manufacturing readiness for engineering runs, process performance qualification (PPQ) batches and commercial production.
• Participate in project governance meetings and provide updates on manufacturing risks, resources and timelines.
• Support equipment FAT, SAT, commissioning and qualification activities.
• Provide manufacturing expertise during process design and optimization phases.
• Contribute to risk assessments including FMEA and quality risk management activities.
• Drive execution of project deliverables in alignment with overall program objectives.
• Support regulatory inspections and customer audits relating to the project.
• Build, recruit and develop a manufacturing team capable of supporting commercial operations.
• Ensure compliance with GMP, aseptic processing standards and site quality systems.
• Promote a strong quality culture and right-first-time manufacturing principles.
• Ensure audit readiness across all operational areas.
• Review manufacturing documentation for accuracy and compliance.

About Your Skills & Experience

For this role, we’re looking for a candidate who has an effective combination of the following qualifications, skills and experiences:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Science, Pharmaceutical Technology, Biotechnology or related discipline.
• Equivalent combination of education and significant sterile manufacturing experience may be considered.
• Proven experience in GMP pharmaceutical or medical device manufacturing.
• Proven experience in a supervisory or leadership position.
• Experience in sterile manufacturing and aseptic processing environments.
• Experience supporting new product introductions, technology transfers or commercialization projects.
• Experience managing production teams and developing operators.
• Track record of delivering operational improvements and performance results.
• Experience supporting equipment commissioning and qualification.
• Knowledge of Annex 1 requirements and aseptic manufacturing practices preferrable.

At Viatris, we are dedicated to building a truly diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t fully align with every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Benefits at Viatris

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. Some of our benefits include the following on top of a competitive salary:

• Excellent career progression opportunities
• Work-life balance initiatives
• Bonus scheme
• Health insurance
• Pension

Diversity & Inclusion at Viatris

At Viatris, diversity and inclusion are essential to our mission. The diversity we foster in all aspects of our business can be one of our greatest strengths in redefining healthcare not as it is, but as it should be. If you would like to know more about what diversity, equity and inclusion means to us, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/Careers/Diversity-and-Inclusion

Sustainability at Viatris

Corporate social responsibility is fundamental to the Viatris mission. We work to advance responsible and sustainable operations and leverage our collective expertise to empower people to live healthier at every stage of life, recognizing that our actions affect the stakeholders and communities we serve. To learn more about our efforts, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/about-us/corporate-responsibility

At Viatris, we offercompetitivesalaries, benefitsandan inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others.

Viatris is an Equal Opportunity Employer.