Our purpose is to bring hope to life by enabling life-changing therapies for patients around the globe, creating a healthier and happier tomorrow. Our mission is to work side by side with our customers in order to improve patients’ lives by bringing new biopharmaceuticals to market.
At AGC Biologics, manufacturing is more than production - it is the point where science becomes real therapies for patients around the world.
As Manufacturing Manager – Downstream, you will lead one of our critical biologics production areas and play a central role in ensuring stable, compliant, and efficient manufacturing in one of Denmark’s most advanced GMP environments. You will connect strategy with daily operations, guiding teams across shifts while strengthening performance, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
This is a leadership role for someone who enjoys combining technical expertise, operational ownership, and people leadership to create reliable manufacturing that truly makes an impact.
A role where operations, leadership, and impact meet
In this role, you will take ownership of the downstream production area and ensure manufacturing runs smoothly across all shifts. Your focus will be on maintaining strong performance, supporting teams, and ensuring the facility is always ready to deliver high-quality biologics production.
Your week will involve close collaboration with Shift Supervisors, Quality, Engineering, and Supply Chain, aligning production priorities and solving operational challenges before they become disruptions. You will monitor trends, identify improvement opportunities, and translate business priorities into clear direction for your team.
Success in this role means creating stable production flow, engaged teams, and continuous operational improvement - ensuring that biologics manufacturing remains reliable, compliant, and efficient.
A team built on collaboration and ownership
You will lead a team of four Shift Supervisors, supporting them in their leadership of shift teams while ensuring strong communication and alignment across the week.
The environment is collaborative and pragmatic. Leaders are visible, decisions are made close to the operation, and knowledge sharing is part of everyday work. Your role will be to create clarity and direction while empowering your team to take ownership of performance, safety, and quality.
As a leader, you will balance operational focus with people development - coaching leaders, strengthening team engagement, and building a culture where accountability and support go hand in hand.
What will help you succeed in this role
We imagine you bring both technical insight and leadership experience from GMP manufacturing. Most importantly, you are comfortable taking ownership of operational performance while developing the leaders around you.
You likely bring:
Experience in multi-shift production environments, CDMO organizations, or audit-ready manufacturing setups will be an advantage.
Why build your career at AGC Biologics
At AGC Biologics, you join a global team dedicated to bringing innovative biologics to patients faster. Our manufacturing sites combine advanced technology, scientific expertise, and collaborative teams working together across continents.
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Ready to lead the future of biologics manufacturing?
If this role sounds like the next step in your leadership journey, we would love to hear from you.
Please submit your application through our system – we will review applications continuously.
Our culture at AGC Biologics is defined by the six core values: Knowledge, Trust, Quality, Ingenuity, Accountability and Teamwork. Our core values stem from our team members and are embedded into our DNA. They provide a common language and understanding of how we as an organization are connected across three continents. Our core values serve as a compass and reminder of how we achieve our purpose of bringing hope to life for patients around the globe.
AGC Biologics is a leading global biopharmaceutical Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) with a strong commitment to delivering the highest standard of service as we work side-by-side with our clients and partners, every step of the way. We provide world-class development and manufacture of mammalian and microbial-based therapeutic proteins, plasmid DNA (pDNA), messenger RNA (mRNA), viral vectors, and genetically engineered cells. Our global network spans the U.S., Europe, and Asia, with cGMP-compliant facilities in Seattle, Washington; Boulder and Longmont, Colorado; Copenhagen, Denmark; Heidelberg, Germany; Milan, Italy; and Chiba, Japan. We currently employ more than 2,500 employees worldwide. Our commitment to continuous innovation fosters the technical creativity to solve our clients’ most complex challenges, including specialization in fast-track projects and rare diseases. AGC Biologics is the partner of choice. To learn more, visit www.agcbio.com. Want to keep posted about our growth and learn more about our company? Follow us on LinkedIn and give us a quick Like on Facebook!
AGC Biologics offers a highly competitive compensation package and a friendly, collaborative culture that values personal initiative and professional achievement. AGC Biologics is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.