Manager Process Engineering

Overview

About Merz Aesthetics Merz Aesthetics is a medical aesthetics business with a long history of empowering health care professionals, patients and employees to live every day with confidence. We aim to help people around the world look, feel and live like the best versions of themselves — however they define it. Clinically proven, its product portfolio includes injectables, devices and skin care treatments designed to meet each patient’s needs with high standards of safety and efficacy. Being family owned for more than 115 years, Merz Aesthetics is known for building unique connections with customers who feel like family. Merz Aesthetics’ global headquarters is in Raleigh, N.C., USA, with a commercial presence in 90 countries worldwide. It is also a part of Merz Group, which was founded in 1908 and is based in Frankfurt, Germany. Learn more at merzaesthetics.com.

Position Snapshot

• Location: Lonay (Vaud, Switzerland)
• Activity rate: Full-Time
• Type of contract: Unlimited contract (CDI)

Responsibilities

As a Process Engineering Manager, you lead a team focused on improving and sustaining manufacturing processes to ensure efficiency, product quality, and cost optimization in a GMP-regulated environment. You oversee the evaluation and implementation of process improvements, support production teams with technical expertise, and drive corrective actions in collaboration with quality and cross-functional teams. Your responsibilities include managing process documentation, risk assessments, validation activities, and regulatory compliance. You also lead continuous improvement initiatives, analyze key performance indicators, and ensure compatibility of new processes with existing facilities. In this role, you foster a culture of innovation, operational excellence, and collaboration across departments.

What Will Make You Successful

• Knowledge & Skills
• Project management in international environment focused on results
• Fluent in French and English in written and spoken
• Experience on data analysis
• Capacity to solve complex problems
• Contribute to the development of functional strategies
• Able to work to tight deadlines and independently
• Strong verbal and written communication skills: ability to communicate complex ideas and build consensus
• Strong leadership skills
• Teamwork-oriented
• Willingness to learn and progress

Education & Qualifications

• Engineering degree, with confirmed experience in process improvement activities and project management in a GMP compliant setting.

Professional Experience

• At least 6+ years of industrial experience working in a GMP compliant setting: production support/sustaining and/or process definition and development, design, scale-up, improvement and validation
• Experience leading cross-functional teams in the improvement and scale up of manufacturing processes
• Experience with regulatory filings for Medical Devices and supporting regulatory inspections.

What We Offer

• Work-life balance: Flexible working hours and home office work, depending on the position requirements. Generous annual leave arrangements.
• Ongoing training: Access to training programs (e.g., LinkedIn Learning, FranklinCovey, Harvard online) and development opportunities.
• Benefits: Premium accident insurance, attractive Pension Fund, discounts programs, Employee Assistance Program, and regular team activities.
• Sustainable development: The Merz Group is investing at every site to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035.

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