Program Manager/Senior Project Manager Quality Excellence

The Position

Join our Quality Excellence team in Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany, where you will 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.

Tasks & responsibilities

• As Senior Project Manager, you will lead Quality Excellence projects and programs across Human Pharma (Pharma Supply and BioPharma) as well as Animal Health.
• Managing key Quality Efficiency projects with ambitious timelines will be a central part of your role, including providing project progress reporting to Steering Committees, ensuring timely escalation, and tracking business cases and saving potentials with respective updates.
• You will drive standardization and efficiency in our Quality processes incl. savings identification, verification and follow‑up.
• You will foster a culture of continuous improvement by challenging existing ways of working, and translating ideas into measurable efficiency improvements.

Additional tasks for Program Manager

• As Program Manager, you will lead global Quality Efficiency programs with high complexity across several international organizational units, ensuring alignment between strategy, operational execution, and measurable results.
• You will propose and align the scope of key Quality Excellence programs and oversee their implementation to achieve sustainable targets.
• In addition, you will coach sites and functions and provide guidance to Project Managers involved in the corresponding Quality Excellence programs.

Requirements

• 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 can‑do attitude, ability in facilitating change and collaboration.
• Fluency in English and German.

Additional requirements for Program Manager

• 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 (e.g., 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

As part of our commitment to transparency and fairness, salary information will be shared during the recruitment process. We also offer a comprehensive benefits and wellbeing package.

Equal Opportunity

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.