Senior Project Manager French Speaking (w/m/d)
Duration: ASAP - 31/08/2026
Location: Neuchatel, Switzerland
Key Responsibilities:
* Provide strategic and technical direction to the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) concerning timing of major milestones and critical path deliverables, including budget and resource planning, implementation, and variances.
* Guide multi-disciplinary, highly technical teams through the finalization of a major capex project involving all internal functional area directors and stakeholder above site.
* Strictly ensure a timely transition from project phase to operations according to plan and budget.
* Responsible for the finalization of a major capex project including in assuring the success of the engineering runs (ER) and the process & performance qualification (PPQ) in collaboration with the site's Manufacturing team.
* Guide project teams in always working towards a clear scope of work and the delivery of project milestones on time, on budget and within scope through utilization of project management tools.
* Proactively lead change management during the handover of the project to the Lead End User.
* Experience in all the capital phases of a major construction project with emphasis on ER and PPQ in state-of-the aseptic filling lines in biologics.
* Perform various project management tasks and any other relevant administrative tasks deemed necessary.
* Organize and facilitate technical and project management meetings with audiences across different all the major stakeholder groups.
* Participate in authorized on and off-site meetings and group activities related to the project, if relevant.
Key Requirements:
* Fluent in French & English (written & verbal)
* Minimum of 15 years' project/operational management experience in biotechnology or pharmaceutical industries, in a multi-disciplinary, global environment.
* Minimum of 10 years of people/matrix management experience required.
* Experience managing a global, matrix team is required.
* Proven leadership, team building skills and strategic problem-solving ability.
* Demonstrated ability to manage and lead others through change.
* Experience interacting with external collaborators with ability to build strong relationships.
* Knowledge of risk management, project reporting, and project management tools.
* Strong interpersonal skills particularly motivational, negotiation, listening, judgment, analytic, and conflict management skills, demonstrated by ability to lead highly technical teams.
* Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, rapidly changing technology environment, and to work on multiple work streams and simultaneously.
* Demonstrated time-management organizational skills.
* Project management certification (PMP, Prince2, SCPM, etc.) or similar experience is required.
In Switzerland, for contract roles it is mandatory for the candidate to be a Swiss citizen or a European passport holder.
SThree_Germany is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.