Jobs at Lonza

Leads biologics manufacturing programs from execution through delivery, serving as the primary customer interface and coordinating cross-functional teams. Owns program scope, quality, timelines, budgets, issue resolution, customer satisfaction, and performance tracking. The role also mentors program management staff and promotes standardized processes, best practices, and data integrity across teams.

Leads enterprise-wide transformation across biologics R&D, establishing scientific and operational frameworks, aligning stakeholders, governing cross-functional portfolios, and building sustainable organizational capabilities. Advises senior R&D leaders, develops talent, drives change leadership, promotes continuous improvement, and delivers innovation roadmaps that improve organizational performance, consistency, and readiness across the global network.

Leads global infrastructure operations across approximately 15–17 sites, managing service providers, operational performance, incident and change management, service governance, infrastructure reliability, compliance, executive reporting, and continuous improvement. The role oversees cloud, datacenter, Microsoft 365, identity, endpoint, network, backup, and disaster recovery services while supporting regulated pharmaceutical, manufacturing, R&D, and commercial environments.

Leads customer experience strategy across sites and platforms, including journey mapping, Voice of Customer programs, digital transformation, customer metrics, reporting, change management, training, and cross-functional team leadership. The role analyzes feedback and customer trends, recommends improvements, influences senior stakeholders, and supports customer-centric initiatives across a global CDMO business.

Leads the global Master Data strategy, governance framework, SAP data architecture, analytics, and systems capabilities for Supply Chain. Builds a standalone shared-services organization, establishes operating models and service standards, manages data quality and change control, leads system implementations and carve-outs, ensures compliance and business continuity, and develops global teams and external partnerships.

Lead Lonza’s AI product portfolio from opportunity identification through delivery, adoption, scaling, and retirement. Partner with business, data, technology, and AI teams to create measurable value, establish governance and success metrics, manage prioritization, and ensure responsible, secure, compliant AI products. Drive change management and adoption across the organization.

Leads Lonza’s enterprise AI strategy, roadmap, and investment portfolio. Translates business priorities into AI initiatives, governs prioritization and value realization, establishes performance and ROI metrics, and advises leadership on investments, risks, and trade-offs. Partners with business, Finance, GIA, and IT leaders to scale high-impact initiatives and align cross-functional execution in a regulated life sciences environment.

Leads the full Visp capital investment portfolio, including strategic planning, budgeting, governance, engineering, construction, commissioning, qualification, and operational handover. Manages multidisciplinary teams, external engineering partners, contractors, and suppliers while ensuring safety, quality, GMP compliance, schedule, and budget performance. Develops investment strategies, business cases, and stakeholder alignment across Engineering, Operations, Quality, EHS, Procurement, and corporate functions.

Leads global treasury operations for the Capsules and Health Ingredients business, including liquidity management, cash forecasting, banking relationships, funding, financial risk mitigation, treasury infrastructure, governance, controls, and process automation. Partners with the Treasurer, Finance leaders, business stakeholders, and banking institutions to establish an independent treasury function and support strategic financing and capital decisions.

Lead global investment assurance for major capital and strategic projects. Review business cases, financial assumptions, risks, governance, and project readiness; facilitate investment reviews with cross-functional stakeholders; monitor approved projects against commitments; and improve governance processes, tools, templates, and post-investment review practices.

Leads HR strategy and execution for the Walkersville site, partnering with senior leaders on workforce planning, employee relations, talent management, organizational development, succession planning, change management, compliance, and employee engagement. Oversees implementation of enterprise HR programs, uses workforce analytics to guide decisions, develops the local HR team, and supports a high-performance, inclusive workplace culture within a matrixed, regulated environment.

Designs, implements, migrates, optimizes, and supports enterprise infrastructure across datacenters and Microsoft Azure. Leads cloud migrations, datacenter modernization, site integrations, and infrastructure transformation initiatives. Administers Windows Server, Active Directory, VMware, and Nutanix environments; implements backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions; and performs security hardening, vulnerability remediation, compliance, and resiliency activities. Serves as an escalation point for global Site IT teams and collaborates with infrastructure, cybersecurity, and business stakeholders.

Provides technical leadership for campus electrical infrastructure supporting biopharmaceutical manufacturing. Leads electrical system design, integration, commissioning, operation, troubleshooting, reliability, safety, regulatory compliance, energy efficiency, and lifecycle management. Serves as the subject matter expert for power distribution and building automation systems, partners with utilities and manufacturing teams, and supports capital projects from planning through startup.

Supports global HR Operations by driving continuous improvement across workforce lifecycle, payroll, and HR service processes. Applies Lean Six Sigma, DMAIC, process mapping, root cause analysis, and FMEA to identify risks and optimize delivery. Builds process frameworks, dashboards, metrics, and service catalogues while managing improvement projects and facilitating workshops. Partners with global HR, digital, compliance, and business stakeholders to implement automation, strengthen employee experience, and scale successful initiatives.

Leads the Americas Employee Relations team and oversees complex workplace investigations, high-risk cases, case management, service levels, and regional workload planning. Partners with HR, Legal, and Ethics teams to ensure fair, consistent, confidential, and legally defensible outcomes. Drives process improvement through analytics, reporting, standardization, and AI-enabled tools while coaching team members and strengthening ER capabilities.

Leads strategy deployment, business operations, organizational effectiveness, operational excellence, and transformation initiatives for a Facilities and Engineering organization. Partners with site leadership on strategic planning, operating systems, KPI governance, executive communications, change management, and cross-functional programs. Facilitates Lean and continuous improvement activities while supporting organizational integration and stakeholder alignment in a GMP-regulated manufacturing environment.

Leads Lonza’s enterprise Data-as-a-Product transformation, including strategy, governance, technology foundations, operating models, scalable data products, and customer-facing data services. Owns program vision, scope, budget, schedule, risks, stakeholder alignment, and value realization. Coordinates business platforms, Engineering, IT/OT, Quality, Supply Chain, and external partners while driving adoption across manufacturing and commercial domains.

Own the strategy, roadmap, requirements, governance, and delivery of Lonza’s customer portal and experience capability. Define customer journeys, MVP scope, integrations, security and compliance controls, operating models, and success measures. Coordinate Commercial, Operations, Quality, IT, Data, Security, Legal, architecture, and external partners while managing scope, budget, risks, dependencies, and adoption across a regulated life sciences environment.

Provides administrative and coordination support for the Tampa site, including calendar management, meeting logistics, visitor access, calls, mail, room bookings, catering, site events, reporting, data entry, and documentation. Ensures smooth daily operations and a positive experience for employees and visitors while supporting cross-functional teams and continuous improvement.

Lead the design, configuration, implementation, enhancement, and support of SAP FI/CO solutions, specializing in Product Costing, Material Ledger, and Actual Costing. Partner with Finance, IT, and Operations stakeholders; support financial processes, integrations, testing, audits, production incidents, and continuous improvement. Provide SAP PS expertise for project accounting and settlement, lead requirements and deployments, and mentor colleagues across global teams.