About this role
Job Description Summary The future is ours to shape. / Prihodnost je v naših rokah.
Job Description The new Bio Injectable products manufacturing unit in Brnik will deliver advanced pharmaceutical products to patients worldwide, with a strong focus on biosimilars that require the highest standards of quality, professionalism, and dedication. If you are driven by purpose and want to co-create a success story with global impact through your expertise and commitment, we invite you to join us.
As Site Quality Head (d/ž/m), you will provide leadership and drive people development within the quality organization. You will be responsible for the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of quality assurance processes and quality control systems supporting release activities. In this role, you will ensure the delivery of high-quality, customer-focused services in compliance with applicable legislation, internal regulations, recognized good practices, and business objectives.
Your key responsibilities:
• Quality Organization Leadership at Site Level: Leading, developing, and steering the quality function at the site, ensuring the professional and personal development of team members, as well as high levels of engagement and team performance. • Product Quality Assurance and Oversight of Regulated Activities: End-to-end oversight of all activities impacting product quality, safety, and compliance across manufacturing, control, and distribution processes. • Regulatory Compliance and Interaction with Health Authorities: Ensuring compliance with applicable legislation and internal requirements, maintaining product and site registrations, and preparing and maintaining core site documentation for regulatory purposes. • Quality System Management and Risk Management: Conducting quality risk assessments, performing regular reviews of the Quality Management System, and ensuring effective handling of deviations, non-conformances, and complaints. • Inspection Readiness, Audits, and Third-Party Management: Maintaining continuous readiness for regulatory and internal inspections and ensuring that collaboration with third parties is governed by appropriate quality agreements. • Training and Competency of Employees: Ensuring employees are adequately trained and qualified to perform their tasks independently, with regular monitoring of training compliance and professional competencies. • Safety, Health, Environment, and Business Continuity: Promoting a culture of safety and quality, ensuring compliance with health, safety, and environmental requirements, supporting crisis management activities, and ensuring business continuity.
What you will bring to the role:
• University degree in Pharmacy, Chemistry, or another relevant scientific discipline. • A minimum of 5 years of work experience in the field of quality, development, or manufacturing. • Active proficiency in English. • Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools.
What we offer:
• Job location: Ljubljana and Brnik, Slovenia • Contract type: permanent contract with 6-month probation period • Expected weekly working hours: 40 hours per week • *Pay range: 117.600 – 176.400 EUR gross
*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 gross salary • Long Term bonus (LTI): percentage of annual gross salary • Vacation allowance: in 2025 it was €2,430.99 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 • 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 July 13th, 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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Nova proizvodna enota končnih izdelkov podobnih bioloških zdravil na Brniku bo pacientom po vsem svetu zagotavljala napredna zdravila, ki zahtevajo najvišje standarde kakovosti, strokovnosti in predanosti. Če vas navdihuje delo z jasnim poslanstvom in želite s svojim znanjem postati del uspešne zgodbe z globalnim vplivom, vas vabimo, da se nam pridružite.
Kot Vodja kakovosti (d/ž/m) boste odgovorni za vodenje in razvoj sodelavcev na področju kakovosti. Vodili boste razvoj, implementacijo in nenehno izboljševanje procesov zagotavljanja kakovosti ter sistemov kontrole kakovosti, ki podpirajo aktivnosti sproščanja izdelkov. Odgovorni boste za zagotavljanje visoke ravni aktivnosti v skladu z veljavno zakonodajo, internimi predpisi, uveljavljenimi dobrimi praksami ter poslovnimi cilji.
Vaše ključne odgovornosti: Vaše odgovornosti bodo med drugim naslednje:
• Vodenje organizacije kakovosti na lokaciji: Vodenje, razvoj in usmerjanje področja kakovosti, skrb za strokovni in osebni razvoj sodelavcev ter zagotavljanje visoke zavzetosti in uspešnosti ekipe. • Zagotavljanje kakovosti izdelkov in nadzor nad reguliranimi dejavnostmi: Celovit nadzor nad vsemi dejavnostmi, ki vplivajo na kakovost, varnost in skladnost izdelkov v procesih proizvodnje, kontrole in distribucije. • Regulatorna skladnost in sodelovanje z zdravstvenimi organi: Zagotavljanje skladnosti z zakonodajo in internimi zahtevami, vzdrževanje registracij izdelkov in lokacije ter priprava in vzdrževanje osnovne dokumentacije lokacije za regulatorne namene. • Upravljanje sistema kakovosti in obvladovanje tveganj: Izvajanje ocen tveganj s področja kakovosti, redni pregledi sistema vodenja kakovosti ter zagotavljanje obravnave odstopanj, neskladnosti in pritožb. • Inšpekcijska pripravljenost, presoje in sodelovanje z zunanjimi partnerji: Stalna pripravljenost na regulatorne in notranje presoje ter zagotavljanje, da je sodelovanje s tretjimi osebami urejeno z ustreznimi dogovori o zagotavljanju kakovosti. • Usposabljanje in usposobljenost sodelavcev: Zagotavljanje, da so sodelavci ustrezno usposobljeni in kvalificirani za samostojno izvajanje nalog, redno spremljanje skladnosti usposabljanj in strokovne kompetentnosti. • Varnost, zdravje, okolje ter neprekinjenost poslovanja: Spodbujanje kulture varnosti in kakovosti, zagotavljanje izvajanja zahtev s področja varnosti, zdravja in okolja, sodelovanje pri kriznem upravljanju ter zagotavljanje neprekinjenega poslovanja.
Vaš prispevek k delovnemu mestu:
• Visokošolska stopnja izobrazbe farmacevtske, kemijske ali druge naravoslovne smeri. • Minimalno 5 let delovnih izkušenj s področja kakovosti, razvoja ali proizvodnje. • Aktivno znanje angleškega jezika. • Poznavanje orodja Microsoft Office.
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: 117.600 – 176.400 EUR bruto
Naš paket ugodnosti dodatno vključuje:
• Letni bonus (STI): odstotek letne bruto plače. • Dolgoročni bonus (LTI): odstotek letne bruto plače. • Regres za letni dopust: leta 2025 je znašal 2.430,99 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. • 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 13. 7. 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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