INTERNSHIP PROJECT (6-12 months)
GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN QUALITY/ CHANGE CONTROL PROCESS IMPROVEMENT
At Biogen, we are working every day to become the world’s best science-driven biotechnology company. It takes
great talent to discover, develop and deliver new therapeutics that lead to a meaningful improvement in the lives
of patients. Biogen Idec believes that much of that great talent can be developed from within our own
organization.
We offer students the opportunity to come inside the doors of one of the largest biotech companies in the world
and learn first-hand how teamwork, collaboration and commitment to providing the best service to our patients
have helped drive our Company's success. Through hands-on work experience, we offer a supportive,
collaborative, teaching environment aimed at developing our Interns' skills and identifying their career goals.
Global Supply Chain Quality (SCQ) ensures the availability of safe and effective medicines that meet or exceed patient
requirements worldwide. SCQ collaborates internally at Biogen Idec and also serves as a direct liaison with our external
manufacturing partners to ensure an uninterrupted supply chain, while maintaining a commitment to quality and
safety. SCQ is also responsible for activities such as transferring and validating processes to third party manufacturers,
managing the performances of these manufacturers, assuring product life cycle management and other changes are
managed in a safe way and according to regulations, investigating manufacturing discrepancies, performing batch review,
and release of product. Additionally, we are responsible for management of the Quality System implemented at the Zug
site, as well as leading process improvements of these systems, and ensuring compliance with local regulations.
PROJECT RESPONSIBILITIES:
You will have the opportunity to learn about change management, which is an integral function of the biotech
world for ensuring compliance and patient safety. You will gain hands-on experience using quality systems
commonly used in the industry. The goal of the project consists in mapping, diagnosing and improving the change
control processes, as well as its interfaces with internal and external partners. Benchmark with other
organizations should be performed. Opportunities for simplification or improvement of robustness and compliance
(with regulations and internal objectives and rules) will be identified. The most significant improvements
identified in the course of the project will be implemented.
YOUR PROFILE:
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Students or recent graduates within the field of Engineering, Pharma, Biotechnology (preferred); or
related faculties
Understanding of pharmaceutical regulations is an advantage
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Basic knowledge of lean / 6 sigma principles is an advantage
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Candidate should be able to identify, understand and analyze complex supplier/customer
interdependencies
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Strong attention to detail
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Good communication skills
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Highly motivated, able to work independently as well as part of a team
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Fluent English (written and spoken) is a must