This is a temporary contractor opportunity at Novartis 

Novartis touches the lives of a tenth of the world’s population. Every role here, regardless of contract type, makes an impact on human life! 

This role is offered through Magnit Global in partnership with Hays, who, if selected, will be your employer. If your services are retained, you will be assigned to provide services to Novartis as the end client. This is not an offer of employment with Novartis. If you are selected for this Temporary/External opportunity, you will not be an employee of Novartis and will not be eligible for any Novartis employee benefits or incentives.

Job Description Summary:

This opportunity is for former students who just finished their Bachelor’s or Master’s degree at university / FH without relevant work experience of at least six months after graduation.

We are seeking for a talented and highly motivated candidate to join the GDC Basel stockroom team. In this role you will contribute to managing a diverse collection of more than 100,000 chemicals of commercial origin as well as internally prepared intermediates. Your key responsibilities will involve ensuring timely and accurate distribution of chemicals to scientists upon request and tracking their return and appropriate re-shelving and booking into the respective databases. Also, you will oversee the operation of our automated KARDEX storage facility.

We are looking for an independent and scientifically curious recent graduate with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in organic chemistry. Since this is a temporary position for up to one year, it could be suited for a candidate planning to bridge between Bachelor or Master and further career steps.

Major Accountabilities:

• Manage requests for chemicals from scientists.
• Locate and retrieve ordered chemicals from the stockroom shelves, ensuring proper packaging and labeling for safe transport.
• Ensure that international shipments are compliant with global trade regulations.
• Helping with weighing out and rapid delivery of compounds to the scientific community.
• Inspect returned containers with chemicals for damage and contamination, book them back into the system databases, and ensure adherence to relevant policies & regulations and HSE-safety protocols.
• Properly dispose chemicals that do not pass the quality criteria for long time storage.
• Contribute to the development and improvement of stockroom procedures and workflows, promoting efficiency and accuracy, creating a center of excellence in chemical management.

Minimum Requirements:

• Recent Bachelor’s or Master’s graduate in Organic Chemistry.
• Ability to thrive in a highly collaborative and dynamic international team.
• High degree of independence.
• Strong quality and customer focus with a clear sense of accountability.
• Digitally proficient. Experience with chemical inventory management systems would be an advantage.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English, German would be an advantage.

Workload: 40 hours/week
Role type: Onsite
Required start date: 1st of September 2026
Contract: 6-month contract with an extension of additional 6-months.

Why Novartis: 
Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together?

EEO Statement:
The Novartis Group of Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Accommodation: 
If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to Magnit at directsourceproteam@prounlimited.com.