Technical Steward

The Technical Steward provides the specialist knowledge and expertise, as Subject Matter Expert (SME), of specific pharmaceutical processes or process technologies to the Site (e.g. Technical Steward for aseptically manufactured parenteral prodcuts - upstream or downstream, etc).
In this role you’ll oversee processes and standards to maintain and improve existing and to implement new innovative manufacturing technologies.

**Your key responsibilities**:
Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

- Act as the SPOC for the interface with global MS&T network and with technical development organization, for the corresponding global activities, to define and implement new technical standards for existing and new technologies and equipment.
- Owns the knowledge of specific pharmaceutical manufacturing process technologies, locally, including any pilot scale, scale up or down, and Design of Experiments (DoE).
- Collaborate with technical development, other sites and global MS&T network to facilitate transfer of technical knowledge.
- Provide technical expertise to Engineering for design activities in Capex projects around technologies within area of responsibility.
- Support Product Stewards in creation of Quality Risk Assessments and SOPs for Process Unit.
- Provide technical expertise for validation activities around technologies within area of responsibility.
- Harmonize and optimize technical processes across the site.
- Provide technical trainings and education programs for Process Experts and production operators.
- Assure that the necessary benchmark is done internally in Novartis, and externally in the scientific and academic environment, in order to stimulate and to extend the knowledge, increasing the know-how of the associates and expanding it to the rest of the organization.
- Be a recognized scientific expert internally and externally by reporting and presenting scientific/technical work at internal/external meetings/conferences and publish in peer reviewed international scientific journals including patents.

**Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion**:

- We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve._

**Minimum requirements**

**What you’ll bring to the role**:

- Scientific Degree.
- At least 4-year experience in any of the following areas within the pharmaceutical industry: Regulatory Affairs, Quality Assurance, Production or MS&T.
- Previous experience in a sterile manufacturing environment.
- Fluent in English. Proficient in Italian.

Work location: Colleretto Giacosa (TO).

**Why Advanced Accelerator Applications?**
Thousands of people die of cancer around the world every day. At Advanced Accelerator Applications, a Novartis company, our mission is to transform lives through radioligand therapy in nuclear medicine to fight several leading types of cancer. How will we continue to be on the cutting edge of medicine? We believe new groundbreaking solutions can be found at the intersection of medical science and digital innovation. That a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment inspires new ways of working. We believe our potential can thrive and grow in an unbossed culture underpinned by integrity, curiosity and flexibility. And we can reinvent what's possible, when we collaborate with courage to aggressively and ambitiously tackle the world’s toughest medical challenges. Because the greatest risk in life, is the risk of never trying Imagine what you could do here at Novartis

**Imagine what you could do at Novartis**

**Division**

Oncology

**Business Unit**

ADVANCED ACCELERATOR APPLICATIONS

**Country**

Italy

**Work Location**

Colleretto Giacosa

**Company/Legal Entity**

AAA Italy Srl.

**Functional Area**

Technical Operations

**Job Type**

Full Time

**Employment Type**

Regular

**Shift Work**

No

**Early Talent**

No