Product Steward
Novartis
Summary
Are you passionate about turning data into insights that improve product quality and manufacturing performance? Join Novartis as a Product Steward and become the technical expert responsible for maintaining deep product and process knowledge throughout the commercial lifecycle. In this highly visible role, you will use data analytics, process monitoring, and scientific expertise to ensure products remain in a state of control, drive continuous improvement initiatives, and support robust, reliable manufacturing operations. Working across multiple functions, you will play a key role in product stewardship, process validation, technical investigations, and operational excellence while helping deliver high-quality medicines to patients.
Job description
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the product subject matter expert throughout the commercial manufacturing lifecycle.
- Monitor process performance through data trending, statistical analysis, and ongoing product oversight.
- Lead technical investigations and drive effective corrective and preventive actions for process-related issues.
- Maintain product-specific quality risk assessments and support robust process control strategies.
- Ensure products remain in a continued state of validation through ongoing process verification activities.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver process improvements, optimization initiatives, and manufacturing excellence projects.
- Support regulatory readiness, product transfers, and technical change implementation for assigned products.
Essential Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Technology, Chemistry, or equivalent scientific degree.
- Minimum five years of experience in Oral Solid Dosage pharmaceutical manufacturing environments.
- Strong understanding of pharmaceutical manufacturing processes, regulatory requirements, and GMPs.
- Experience using data trending, statistical analysis, and process monitoring to drive decision-making.
- Proven ability to investigate process issues, identify root causes, and implement effective corrective actions.
- Demonstrated experience working collaboratively across technical, quality, and manufacturing functions.
Desirable Requirements
- Master of Science degree in Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Technology, Chemistry, or a related scientific field.
- Experience supporting product transfers, process optimization initiatives, and manufacturing excellence programs.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Technology, Chemistry, or equivalent scientific degree.
- Minimum five years of experience in Oral Solid Dosage pharmaceutical manufacturing environments.
- Strong understanding of pharmaceutical manufacturing processes, regulatory requirements, and GMPs.
- Experience using data trending, statistical analysis, and process monitoring to drive decision-making.
- Proven ability to investigate process issues, identify root causes, and implement effective corrective actions.
- Demonstrated experience working collaboratively across technical, quality, and manufacturing functions.
- Master of Science degree in Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Technology, Chemistry, or a related scientific field.
- Experience supporting product transfers, process optimization initiatives, and manufacturing excellence programs.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability benefits
- 401(k) with company match
- Performance-based cash incentive
- Annual equity awards
- Vacation
- Personal days
- Holidays
Company overview
Novartis is a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, dedicated to reimagining medicine to improve and extend people's lives. As an innovative medicines company, Novartis focuses on developing high-value treatments that address society's greatest disease burdens through technology leadership in research and development. The company operates across five core therapeutic areas: cardiovascular, renal and metabolic diseases; immunology; neuroscience; oncology; and hematology. With a workforce of approximately 75,883 employees worldwide, Novartis reaches nearly 300 million patients across 118 countries. The company leverages advanced technology platforms including targeted protein degradation, cell therapy, gene therapy, radioligand therapy, and xRNA to develop breakthrough treatments. Novartis maintains a strong portfolio of oncology drugs and generics while continuously expanding its pipeline through strategic acquisitions and internal research. The company's commitment extends beyond drug development to ensuring global access to medical innovations through novel access approaches and patient assistance programs.