As BIOVAC expands its manufacturing base it will embark on a large facility expansion project in Cape Town spanning over the next 10 years. The project is distributed over several phases and aims to build and expand on Biovac s sterile manufacturing capability in vaccines across the full value chain. To facilitate this Biovac is looking for exceptional project skills and expertise in a range of disciplines within sterile pharmaceutical manufacturing. We are looking to hire a dynamic, passionate, confident, proactive and meticulous Strategic Project Lead to join a goal orient.
QUALIFICATIONS NEEDED:
- Bachelors or higher degree in engineering/biotechnology/pharmacy/ or equivalent.
- Business Qualification is an advantage.
- Project Management qualification is an advantage.
NECESSARY EXPERIENCE & INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE:
- Minimum of 10 years of experience with sterile pharmaceutical /biotech manufacturing.
- Experience in managing and executing multi-disciplinary projects of at least R 250 million.
- Excellent working knowledge of sterile pharmaceutical manufacturing processes.
- Excellent understanding of process flows and key operational metrics withing a sterile manufacturing environment
- Excellent understanding of the cGMP guideline relating to sterile products.
KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ROLE:
- Ensures that strategic projects are fully scoped with clearly defined deliverables and clear execution plans.
- Execution of strategic project activities including design, scoping, budgeting, scheduling, and execution for successful delivery in line with Biovac s strategic objectives. Strategic projects are typically a 5 10 years duration and between R1.5 and R5 billion in value.
- Accountable for the appointment and direct management of the 3rd party Design and Build Engineering supplier.
- Accountable for the development and execution of the change management plan.
- Development of technical standards and user requirement specifications.
- Identify and escalate risks and mitigation/recovery plans.
- Create project budget and ensure adherence to the prescribed budget.
- Requests approvals for changes from necessary stakeholders and manages changes via project change request processes.
- Ensure that the quality criteria is properly defined for each deliverable and frequently measured and reported.
- Ensuring all designs are cost effective and value adding for Biovac.
- Responsible for the leadership of the strategic projects team.
- Responsible for the development of skills and capabilities of this team aligned with Biovac's current and future strategic objectives.
- Conduct business, cross functional and departmental planning and execute activities within own scope of accountability.
- Adequate capacity planning and performance delivery in line with strategic, tactical, and operational plans.
- Role profiling, goal setting and performance management of senior technical leads and staff within the department.
- Ensures that the project delivery is in line with agreed Sterile Products cGMP guidelines.
- Ensures process design meets quality criteria.
Application Deadline: 29 August 2025
If you do not receive a response from us within three weeks of submitting your application, please understand that your application was not successful.
We believe in the magic of diversity within teams and to achieve this, we do apply Employment Equity principles during our selection process where this is necessary to achieve such diversity.
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