Program Manager/Senior Project Manager Quality Excellence

Program Manager / Senior Project Manager – Quality Excellence

Boehringer Ingelheim is a biopharmaceutical company active in both human and animal health. As one of the industry's top investors in research and development, the company focuses on developing innovative therapies that can improve and extend lives in areas of high unmet medical need. Independent since its foundation in 1885, Boehringer takes a long‑term perspective, embedding sustainability along the entire value chain. Our approximately 54,500 employees serve over 130 markets to build a healthier and more sustainable tomorrow. Learn more at

Position Summary

Join our Quality Excellence team in Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany, where we accelerate execution excellence, standardization, and cost transparency across our global Quality community. You will lead high‑impact programs and projects, ensuring measurable outcomes that drive sustainable Quality Excellence across the organization.

Responsibilities – Senior Project Manager

• Lead Quality Excellence projects and programs across Human Pharma (Pharma Supply and BioPharma) as well as Animal Health.
• Manage key Quality Efficiency projects with ambitious timelines, including providing project progress reporting to Steering Committees, ensuring timely escalation, and tracking business cases and saving potentials with respective updates.
• Drive standardization and efficiency in our Quality processes, including savings identification, verification and follow‑up.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by challenging existing ways of working and translating ideas into measurable efficiency improvements.

Responsibilities – Program Manager

• Lead global Quality Efficiency programs with high complexity across several international organizational units, ensuring alignment between strategy, operational execution, and measurable results.
• Propose and align the scope of key Quality Excellence programs and oversee their implementation to achieve sustainable targets.
• Coach sites and functions and provide guidance to Project Managers involved in the corresponding Quality Excellence programs.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in engineering, pharmacy, chemistry, computer science or a comparable field, combined with several years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry — particularly in Quality, and preferably in Quality Control.
• High‑impact experience in leading Efficiency projects/programs in pharmaceuticals.
• Experience in applying AI‑driven approaches to optimize and standardize processes, including building proofs of concept with tools such as Apollo Studio, Copilot Studio, or Google AI Studio.
• Initiative taker, eager to break new ground, create opportunities with a can‑do attitude, ability to facilitate change and collaboration.
• Fluency in English and German.

Additional Program Manager Requirements

• Several years of proven leadership experience in high‑impact cross‑functional transformations and global efficiency programs, including oversight of multi‑million‑euro savings portfolios and complex cross‑site initiatives.
• Advanced management skills (coaching of matrix leaders, international negotiation skills, change management, budgeting and talent development).
• Strong strategic and conceptual skills, including the ability to define concepts, align them cross‑functionally, and identify global needs.

Benefits

Salary information will be shared during the recruitment process. We also offer a comprehensive benefits and well‑being package.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Applications from persons with severe disabilities are warmly welcomed. In cases of equal qualifications, such applicants will be given preferential consideration in the selection process.