Quotation and technical Proposal Manager, PhD, 100%, (f/m/d)

For Bachem’s fast-growing Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) of Oligonucleotides, located in Bubendorf, Switzerland, we have an exciting opportunity to be engaged in customer projects.

Your tasks

• Acts as single point of contact within R&D/manufacturing for the Business Development (BD) team
• Accountable for the generation of proposals including cost estimates meeting customers’ needs
• Responsible for the evaluation and translation of RFIs and RFPs into project scope, timelines, costs and pricing, together with colleagues from BD, Project Management, Quality units, and Supply Chain
• Scope definition based on information from subject matter experts and interdisciplinary team members; generation of technical proposals according to customer RFI/RFP
• Estimation of production requirements such as batch size, production time, cycle times, capacities and timelines
• Organization of internal meetings to align team and assure collection of critical information; self-driven collection of relevant data
• Presentation of scope, work packages and costing to Oligonucleotide management and Business Development for approval and pricing
• Analysis of manufacturing costs, identification of cost drivers, process bottlenecks, and creation of flow charts to visualize the manufacturing processes
• Participation in continuous improvement processes, e.g. for cost reduction
• Active participation in the review and ongoing development and improvement of existing tools to perform accurate cost estimations

Your profile

• Doctorate in chemistry or a related field
• Knowledge of chemical or biotechnological production processes
• A structured, goal-oriented, independent, and precise way of working that allows you to keep an overview at all times
• Great reliability and high sense of responsibility
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Very good knowledge of spoken and written German and English
• Very experienced handling of Microsoft Office, especially Excel
• Ability to work in a matrix team desirable (not a requirement)
• Knowledge of the synthetic production of oligonucleotides and/or peptides
• SAP skills
• Business knowledge

We offer a fascinating and challenging function in a dynamic environment, which guarantees diversity and versatility. You will be part of a motivated team in an internationally renowned company.

Interested? Please submit your complete application through our recruitment system