Environmental Sustainability Programme Manager for The European Pharmacopoeia

**General Information**:
**Vacancy number**
- 1050/2025

**Recruitment type**
- External recruitment (international)

**Type of contract**
- Fixed-term appointment

**Posted date**
- 23-Sep-2025

**Deadline to apply**
- 14-Oct-2025

**Duty station**
- Strasbourg

**Grade**
- A1/A2

**Entity**
- European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and HealthCare

**Description & Requirements**:
**Your Team**

The **European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & Healthcare (EDQM)** is a leading organisation whose mission is to contribute to public health protection by engaging with an international community of experts and stakeholders. We achieve this by promoting acces to safe medicines and healthcare through the elaboration of quality standards, which are recognised as a scientific bookmark worldwide. The EDQM's standards for medicines and their ingredients, compiled in the European Pharmacopeia, are legally binding in its 39 member states (and the European Union) and are also widely used across the globe in the human and animal health sectors. The EDQM also plays a crucial role in the areas of blood transfusion, organ, tissue and cell transplantation and in developing and setting consumer health standards, such as for cosmetics and food contact materials.

The team you will be working in, the European Pharmacopoeia Department (EPD), contributes to the protection of public health through the European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.). The Ph. Eur. is the main source of official quality standards for medicines and their ingredients in Europe. These standards provide a legal and scientific basis for the quality control of a product throughout its life cycle, thus supporting the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare systems. The texts of the European Pharmacopoeia are legally binding in 39 European countries and applied in more than 130 countries worldwide.
- The Ph. Eur. is the result of collaborative work involving not only the members of this department but also, and above all, a network of approx. 900 experts from various horizons and nationalities.

**Your Role**

As a Programme Manager in charge of the Environmental Sustainability Programme for the European Pharmacopoeia, you will:

- perform regulatory intelligence in the field of environmental sustainability on topics relevant to the EDQM and assess the impact on the Ph. Eur.; represent the department in the EDQM strategic foresight group;
- co-ordinate, for the department, the gathering of comments during public consultations; make recommendations; co-ordinate actions and act proactively;
- manage the Ph. Eur. working party on environmental sustainability, including:

- supporting it in developing and refining the Ph. Eur. strategy on environmental sustainability and monitoring its implementation;
- providing advice to the chair and experts of the working party as necessary;
- actively support the implementation of the strategic objective related to environmental sustainability as well as other strategic objectives as appropriate;
- elaborate and maintain communication materials (e.g. annual report, webpage, webinar, podcasts, posts, presentations during events) in collaboration with the Communications and Events Division to share knowledge and inform stakeholders and other interested parties about the work of the Ph. Eur. in the field of environmental sustainability;
- monitor the effectiveness and adequacy of activities related to environmental sustainability, for example through surveys and other similar means;
- facilitate internal communication and co-ordination and foster team spirit and a positive working environment.

**Requirements to apply**

You must:
have at least 4 years’ professional experience in a similar role (e.g. developing and/or maintaining environmental sustainability programmes; providing regulatory intelligence in the field) in the pharmaceutical or a related industry, in a medicines regulatory authority or an official laboratory, or in another relevant sector;- have a very good knowledge of English and basic knowledge of French or the ability to acquire that knowledge on the job.

You must also:

- be a citizen of one of the member states of the Council of Europe and fulfil the conditions for appointment to the civil service of that state;
- have discharged any obligation concerning national service (military, civil or comparable);
- not be the parent, child, stepchild or grandchild of a serving staff member of the Council of Europe;
- be under the age of 65 years.

**Key competencies**
- Operational - Drafting skills
- Interpersonal - Teamwork and co-operation
- Interpersonal - Relationship building
- Interpersonal - Communication

**Desirable competencies**
- Operational - Creativity and innovation
- Interpersonal - Service orientation
- Professional and technical expertise:

- knowledge of the European Pharmacopoeia through the implementation of texts (monographs and/or methods) in a control laboratory or during assessment would