Innovation & Containment Solutions Project Manager (M/F)

About the company

As part of its development, our client, a fast-growing industrial company positioned in a niche market, is looking for its future Innovation & Containment Solutions Project Manager (M/F). The ambition: to allow you to evolve towards a position of Innovation & Containment Solutions Manager, with an expanded role in defining the innovation strategy and managing its project portfolio.

Your tasks

1. Identify customer needs and design innovative solutions

• Act as the primary technical contact for customers regarding complex issues of containment, sealing, contamination, and sterility.
• Analyze their processes, equipment, and operational constraints to identify development opportunities.
• Exchange with various stakeholders: Engineering, Process, R&D, Validation, Quality, Maintenance, and Sales.
• Transform identified issues into functional and technical specifications, and propose suitable concepts.

1. Manage development projects, from concept to industrialization

• Lead projects from end to end: needs assessment, feasibility, design, prototyping, testing, qualification, and industrialization.
• Challenge technological choices, materials, processes, and technical architectures.
• Define performance requirements and testing and qualification protocols.
• Coordinate internal teams and external partners, while controlling costs, deadlines, quality, and risks.
• Secure the transfer of developed solutions to industrial and production teams.

1. Contribute to the innovation strategy and investment decisions

• Build and structure the annual innovation plan in line with the Group's strategic orientations.
• Prioritize the project portfolio according to customer needs, market opportunities, and technical feasibility.
• Develop business cases by evaluating revenue potential, margin, necessary investments, and ROI.
• Recommend decisions to launch, continue, accelerate, or stop projects.
• Present analyses and recommendations to Management.

1. Develop technical expertise and manage partners

• Ensure technological and regulatory monitoring of containment solutions, transfer systems, materials, and sealing technologies.
• Identify and manage specialized partners: design offices, laboratories, experts, suppliers, and subcontractors.
• Capitalize on feedback and disseminate technical expertise to internal teams.
• Contribute to the development of new differentiating offers and the enhancement of the company's know-how.

Requirements

Your profile With higher education as an engineer in mechanics, materials, plastics, processes, or equivalent, you have significant experience in the development of products or technical equipment intended for highly constrained environments. English is imperative! Ideally, you possess expertise combining several of the following areas:

• Containment and sealing: isolators, glove boxes, Alpha/Beta transfer systems, seals, interfaces, and qualification methods.
• Sterile pharmaceutical environment: EU GMP Annex 1, Contamination Control Strategy, isolators/RABS...
• Nuclear environment: understanding of containment requirements and the specific constraints of these facilities.
• Materials and processes: knowledge of polymers and elastomers.

What we offer

Proposed conditions

• Target fixed remuneration: 75 to 80 K€ gross annual

• Variable: 6%
• Profit sharing and incentive schemes: approximately 12%
• Travel: regular mobility to sites (France and/or international) and to partners. </body>