Job Detail

Req #: 1901827


Location: Boudry, Neuchatel, Switzerland


Job Category: Technical Development


Work Location: Route de Perreux 1 2017


Organization: Supply Chain


Employee Status: Full-time


Job Type: Regular

Come join Celgene for this unique opportunity to be part of the team building a leading edge Clinical and Commercial CAR T Platform that serves our patients with novel Celgene CAR T Therapies.

Objectives of this Role
The Senior Manager Patient Operations Apheresis is accountable to manage onboarding and on-going performance of Apheresis Centers used for Celgene Clinical and Commercial Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cell Therapies.  This role will serve as the technical operations single point of contact for Apheresis Centers located within the designated region of Europe and may require management of contract employees.

This role is regionally based out of home or at corporate office to service designated regions of Europe (Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium).  Regional travel up to 75% of time within Europe may be required. 

Daily and Monthly Responsibilities

• Develop and foster relationships with Apheresis Center Staff for assigned region.


• Work with Clinical and Commercial CAR-T teams to establish the apheresis collection footprint to support the clinical trial and commercial site plans for assigned region.


• Coordinate with internal teams and collection site staff to ensure all collection site onboarding activities are successfully completed and sites are prepared to perform collections for Celgene within the required timelines.


• Communicate collection site on-boarding status to Clinical and Commercial teams and develop and execute mitigation plans for any delayed timelines.


• Perform technical site assessments and train collection center staff on Celgene collection requirements and attend site audits as required


• Provide Quality Systems support by participating in deviation activities and impact/investigation assessments for cell collection centers.


• Work with Quality Assurance and other internal business partners to monitor and assess vendor performance and capacity after site launch.


• Manage rollout of process changes to assigned sites.


• Collect VOC (voice of customer) and VOB (voice of business) feedback used for continuous operations improvement


• Collect and enter data into electronic data management systems


• Represent the department on cross-functional project teams, as requested.


• Comply with applicable SOP’s and regulations.

Knowledge and skills required

• Undergraduate Degree in Life Sciences or Engineering, minimum 4 years of experience in a regulated environment either hospital or pharmaceutical/biotech


• Advanced degree in the Life Sciences or Engineering (e.g. Pharm D, NP, PA, Biomedical Engineer)


• Experience working in Apheresis, Cellular Therapy or Stem Cell Transplant programs


• Prior customer facing role in pharmaceutical/biotech industry


• Experience working with critical raw material suppliers or contract manufacturing organizations


• Ability to rapidly solve problems and deal with organizational complexity


• Ability to prioritize and complete work with sense of urgency based on criticality


• Medical, scientific and clinical knowledge


• Knowledge of applicable regulations and standards


• High attention to detail skills


• High organization skills with ability to multi-task several tasks in parallel


• Required Undergraduate Degree in Life Sciences or Engineering (Registered Nurse, Biomedical Engineer)


• Required Minimum 4 years of experience in a regulated environment either hospital or pharmaceutical/biotech


• Required written and verbal fluency in English language and assigned region language (German, French, Spanish, Italian, etc.)

About Us




COMMITTED TO IMPROVING THE LIVES OF PATIENTS WORLDWIDE



At Celgene, we seek to deliver truly innovative and life-changing drugs for our patients. Our vision as a company is to build a major global biopharmaceutical corporation while focusing on the discovery, the development, and the commercialization of products for the treatment of cancer and other severe, immune, inflammatory conditions.




"At Celgene, we seek to deliver truly innovative and life-changing drugs for our patients."



There are more than 300 clinical trials at major medical centers using compounds from Celgene. Investigational compounds are being studied for patients with incurable hematological and solid tumor cancers, including multiple myeloma, myelodysplastic syndromes, chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL), triple-negative breast cancer and pancreatic cancer. As committed as we are to clinical accomplishment, we are equally committed to patient support, which is a guiding principle at Celgene. We believe all who can benefit from our discoveries should have the opportunity to do so. Celgene puts patients first with industry-leading programs that provide information, support and access to our innovative therapies.