Team Leader Production

Ricola

Ricola

Posted on Jul 2, 2025

Ricola as an employer?

Naturally.

We are Ricola – an independent family business and one of the most innovative herbal sweets manufacturers in the world. We bring the delight of naturally healthy Swiss alpine herbs to everyone, everyday, everywhere. As an employer, we’re all about the natural and diverse – we love to combine principles like innovation and tradition into a functioning whole.

Interested, from immediately (or by arrangement) as

Team Leader Production

to be a part of Ricola?

Tasks that make you grow.

  • Manager at eye level: You lead a team in shift operation, develop employees and ensure a motivated, high-performing spirit.
  • Quality & efficiency guarantor: You ensure that production quantities, quality and deadlines are right. Day after day, shift after shift.
  • Safety & process watchdog: You monitor standards, coordinate smooth processes and address technical faults directly.
  • Team coach & developer: You train your team in cooperation with Lean Management, provide feedback and implement standards sustainably.
  • Planning and process manager: You manage orders, order components and carry out checks. And all digitally supported.
  • Setting the pace on the store floor: you are close to the action, organize personnel and resources flexibly and actively drive improvements.

Together we are stronger and more diverse.

Your ingredients for success:

  • Education: Apprenticeship in the food sector (e.g. food technologist EFZ), ideally with a professional examination.
  • Experience: You have already led teams and are familiar with the processes of industrial food or pharmaceutical production.
  • Know-how: You have in-depth knowledge of SAP, lean management, production processes and quality assurance.
  • Soft skills: You are responsible, assertive, a strong communicator and remain solution-oriented even when working in shifts.
  • Languages & Tools: Fluent written and spoken German, basic knowledge of English, proficient in MS Office.
  • Plus points: Further training in technology or business administration, GMP experience, knowledge of French.

Many good reasons.

At Ricola, though work is not your whole life, it is a large part of it, we want to make a contribution to a world where people enjoy living - and working. That's why you should like to do what you do for a living, and the working conditions should be fair. More about what makes us as an employer under ricola.com/opportunities.

Contact

Ricola Group AG
Melanie Nogués
+41 61 765 48 69

We only accept online applications.
> to the online application

www.ricola.com/career