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• BIOVAC is one of the leading sterile vaccine manufacturers rooted in Africa, with our core purpose being to "protect life". We are looking to hire a dynamic, passionate, confident, proactive and meticulous Outsource Lead to join a goal-oriented team.

QUALIFICATIONS NEEDED:

• Degree or Diploma in Biotechnology, Pharmacy, Biological Sciences, or a similar field

NECESSARY EXPERIENCE & INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE:

• At least 3-5 years' experience in vaccine/ biotech/ or pharmaceutical manufacturing industry of which at least 1 year of sterile manufacturing experience required.
• At least 2-3 years' experience at supervisory/management level in GMP Pharmaceutical manufacturing or equivalent.
• Experience in quality and regulatory compliance within a cGMP facility.
• Strong knowledge of vendor management and GMP outsourced activities.
• Experience in having faced successful local and international quality audits.
• Experience working with external customers/Applicants.

KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ROLE:

Core Technical Delivery:

• Provide strategic direction for QA Outsource operations together with the Release and Outsource manager, ensuring proactive interpretation and integration of evolving global regulatory and quality standards into organizational practices and vendor oversight frameworks.
• Lead Outsource section in the Release and Outsource departmental operational planning and execution, embedding quality-by-design principles and aligning delivery with long-term business and regulatory objectives.
• Serve as the principal technical authority and QA advisor for all outsourced activities, ensuring strategic alignment, compliance, and continuous improvement across the vendor landscape.
• Direct the full lifecycle of outsourced quality activities, including vendor selection, approval, certification, change management, and ongoing performance monitoring ensuring cross-functional alignment and risk-based decision-making.
• Drive organizational readiness for internal and external inspections, including global regulatory audits, through strategic planning, audit coordination, SME engagement, and real-time oversight of CAPA closure and systemic improvements.
• Lead significant investigations, risk assessments, and deviation management within the outsourced space, presenting complex findings and remediation strategies to external stakeholders, including CMOs and applicants.
• Oversee the governance of the Vendor Management module in TrackWise, spearheading digital optimization and continuous improvement initiatives in collaboration with system and quality stakeholders.
• Ensure timely and strategic communication of vendor-driven changes, including change notifications, artwork modifications, and quality complaints, through cross-functional coordination and regulatory alignment.
• Define and execute the Outsource Quality data strategy, including the development, analysis, and reporting of key operational and compliance metrics (weekly, monthly, quarterly) to inform executive decision-making to the Release and Outsource Manager.
• Author and approve critical quality documentation, including SOPs, WIs, vendor quality agreements, agent contracts, and vendor certification assessments ensuring clarity, regulatory compliance, and traceability.
• Lead and govern internal and external audit programs, from planning and team formation to peer review, reporting, and enforcement of CAPA closure, ensuring that all vendor and supplier relationships remain audit-ready and compliant.
• Championing a risk-based approach to vendor management, conducting technical vendor risk assessments and utilizing data-driven tools to prioritize and manage supplier relationships in alignment with corporate risk tolerance.
• Serve as the QA strategic lead on new product introductions, ensuring all materials and consumables meet quality expectations via structured onboarding through the vendor management system.
• Represent Biovac outsource QA function to global partners, ensuring transparent and effective communication during investigations, audit responses, and regulatory engagements.
• Escalate any significant/critical observations to the QARO manager and Head of Quality

People Management:

• Shape and align the departments strategic focus and priorities with broader organizational goals, ensuring long-term business value.
• Lead cross-functional and enterprise-level workforce planning, driving alignment between departmental capability and business growth strategies.
• Oversee advanced capacity planning and performance management to ensure optimal delivery across strategic, tactical, and operational horizons.
• Design and continuously refine role profiles, ensuring they support evolving business needs and align with future organizational structure.
• Drive a robust talent management agenda, including leadership pipeline development, succession planning, and high-potential staff retention strategies.
• Foster a high-performance culture through structured coaching, mentoring, and career development pathways, ensuring both technical and leadership capability within the department.
• Champion a resilient knowledge management framework, ensuring organizational intellectual capital is captured, protected, and leveraged.
• Establish robust continuity and delegation frameworks to safeguard business continuity in the absence of key personnel.
• Lead proactive employee relations management, ensuring alignment with labour legislation, internal policy, and business ethics while addressing performance and conduct risks decisively and constructively.

Business Management:

• Shared accountability for achieving the sites tactical plans and mitigation of any risk to the site operation including workflow, ethics, quality, finances, regulatory compliance and other material company requirements.
• Identify and continuously present key opportunities and synergies that will improve and/ or expand the operation within own and/or other departments.
• Lead or participate in departmental and/ or site wide projects.
• Monitoring & reporting on key operations, critical numbers and key performance indicators that impact on the business short-, medium- and long-term objectives.
• Participate with the site management team in proactively mitigating risks and finding solutions where possible.
• Serve as a core member of the site leadership team, providing expert input on risk anticipation, mitigation strategies, and cross-functional solutioning to support business continuity and resilience.
• Own the strategic planning, budgeting, and resource governance for the section in the Release and Outsource department, ensuring alignment with broader organizational priorities, cost efficiency, and operational sustainability across shared site resources.

Quality Management:

• Building own, team and sites GMP Knowledge and Compliance.
• Participate in building quality objectives and provide ongoing metrics that directly support the achievement of such objectives.
• Participate in building a sustainable Quality Culture on site and proactive mitigate risks that may negatively impact quality or escalate these appropriately.
• Establish and maintain a state of control related to quality management within the department.
• Ensuring that the department is audit ready through closing out audit findings timeously.
• Ensure Deviations, Change Controls, CAPAs are handled effectively.
• Advocate continuous improvement within own department as well as cross functionally

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• BIOVAC is one of the leading sterile vaccine manufacturers rooted in Africa, with our core purpose being to "protect life". We are looking to hire a dynamic, passionate, confident, proactive and meticulous Finance Business Partner Pricing and Costing to join a goal-oriented team.

QUALIFICATIONS NEEDED:

• Bachelors Degree or Diploma in Financial Accounting or equivalent.
• Completed Articles
• Preferred: CIMA or ACCA

NECESSARY EXPERIENCE & INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE:

• 5+ years of recent experience in a similar role, preferably within a manufacturing industry.
• Proven experience in Profitability reporting
• Exposure into setting various pricing strategies.
• Proven experience in product costing.
• Proficiency in Ms Excel and data analysis and
• Proficient in SAP and Microsoft Office Suite or related software.

KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ROLE:

Pricing & Strategies

• Develop and implement pricing strategies to maximise profitability while maintaining market competitiveness.
• Analyse market trends and competitor pricing to inform pricing decisions.
• Collaborate with commercial teams to align pricing strategies with business objectives
• Calculate quarterly pricing adjustment based on movement in exchange rates.
• Ensure correct pricing is maintained in SAP
• Analyse and report on Pricing variances to inform business decisions

Profitability Reporting

• Prepare and present detailed profitability reports to senior management.
• Analyse financial data to identify trends, variances, and opportunities for improvement.
• Provide insights and recommendations to enhance profitability
• Identify appropriate cost allocations to enhance business profitability reporting
• Liaise with business leaders on appropriate cost allocations to enhance profitability reporting.

Business Costing

• Oversee the costing process for manufacturing operations.
• Ensure accurate and timely calculation of product costs.
• Ensure accuracy on all material costs on the SAP ERP system
• Monitor and analyse cost variances and implement corrective actions as needed
• Maintain and update the Bill of Materials costing for all products.
• Ensure BOM accuracy and integrity in the SAP ERP system.
• Collaborate with Operation teams to manage BOM changes.

Business Partnering

• Act as a key finance partner to various internal departments, including production, engineering, sales, and marketing.
• Provide financial support and guidance to stakeholders to drive business performance.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with external stakeholders, including suppliers and auditors.

Additional Duties

• Business Planning Actively involved in the business planning and forecasting activities.
• Financial Audits
• Internal control audits
• SAP improvement projects participate in SAP projects and changes where required, lead SAP improvements for the finance department
• Project accounting ensure that accounting meets requirements for capitalisation of project expenses to intangible assets. Attend to any requirements related to the new build project.
• Actively involved and finance representative in the business Tender teams

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• BIOVAC is one of the leading sterile vaccine manufacturers rooted in Africa, with our core purpose being to "protect life". We are looking to hire a dynamic, passionate, confident, proactive and meticulous Treasury, Cash and Contract Execution Lead to join a goal-oriented team.

QUALIFICATIONS NEEDED:

• Bachelors degree or diploma in Financial Accounting or equivalent.
• Completed Articles
• Preferred: CA(SA)

NECESSARY EXPERIENCE & INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE:

• 3+ years of recent experience in a similar role;
• Proven experience in cash flow management and forecasting;
• Exposure to foreign creditors and international payments;
• Experience with foreign exchange rates in major currencies
• Solid understanding of cross-border imports and exports processes;
• Proficiency in Ms Excel and data analysis and
• Proficient in SAP and Microsoft Office Suite or related software.

KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ROLE:

Cash Flow Management

• Actively manage cash flow via cash flow forecasting: Prepare and update a rolling 12-month cash flow forecast, incorporating base business income, expenditure, material purchasing and capital expenditure, as well as project funding and budgets, and any other cash flow considerations. Liaise closely with Project Managers and Financial Planning & Analysis team to ensure that all updates are incorporated into the cash flow forecast.
• Monitor cash usage and balances for the companys base business, funded projects, and unfunded projects
• Track the cash and deferred income balances for grant funding received in advance.
• Prepare monthly management accounts and reporting decks. Report on Financial Accounting deliverables and metrics relating to cash flow in Monthly meetings.
• Prepare cash flow statements for the Annual financial statement for all companies. Validate line items to bank statement.
• Ensure that excess funds are invested to maximise interest earned.
• Maintain the cash flow forecasting principles document
• Training of staff throughout the business on Cash Flow Forecasting principles where required
• Coach graduates and other team members on the preparation of cash flow statements and report
• Balance Sheet forecasting: participate in budgeting cycle by preparing the budgeted balance sheet, working capital estimations and forecasted cash balances
• Audit assistance relating to bank and cash

Contracts Execution

• Assess all contracts to identify and track deliverables required from the finance team. Maintain a contract summary to ensure visibility of all deliverables, covenants and other requirements relevant to the finance department.
• Develop dashboards to monitor and present funder covenant rations
• Track execution costs of agreements: due diligence fees, credit applications, portfolio monitoring, bank charges for approvals, guarantees and other services, finance costs for loan terms, as well as all other costs relating to funding agreements. Ensure that costs are accounted for in the correct SAP cost centres.
• Maintain audit readiness and documentation for all executed contracts. Assist with internal and external audits and attend to funder audits where required.
• Collaborate with legal and procurement teams to ensure contract alignment with financial policies.
• Monitor and report on funding covenants, attend to all Funder reporting requests and ensure that internal processes meet the requirements of loan and grant agreements.
• Funding due diligence exercises ensure that all Financial Accounting deliverables are met.

Treasury Management

• Responsible for overseeing all exchange control applications, including both annual submissions and ad hoc requests, in compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Investigate and implement solutions to manage exchange risks. Provide management advise on covering exchange rate risk through hedging or other
• Review project budgets to identify expenses or suppliers which may be subject to SARB approval. Ensure that applications are submitted timeously and exchange approvals are in place when required.
• Tracking of exchange approvals ensure that renewals are obtained as and when required.
• Monitor EOIs on prepayments, ensure that documentation is provided to the bank to close outstanding EOIs.

Additional Duties

• Banking administration onboarding and offboarding of users, FICA updates, periodic review of users and access rights
• SARS audits
• Internal control audits
• SAP improvement projects participate in SAP projects and changes where required, lead SAP improvements for the finance department
• Project accounting ensure that accounting meets requirements for capitalisation of project expenses to intangible assets. Attend to any requirements related to the new build project.
• Monitor and report on funding covenants, attend to all Funder reporting requests and requirements.