At Lonza, we are looking for a Senior Director, Global PMO to lead enterprise transformation and strategic execution across the Advanced Synthesis (ADS) platform. This highly visible leadership role will be responsible for driving a portfolio of high-priority transformation initiatives that accelerate business performance, strengthen organizational effectiveness, and support long-term growth.
Partnering closely with executive leadership, business stakeholders, and cross-functional teams, you will establish governance frameworks, drive prioritization and resource allocation decisions, and ensure the successful execution of strategic initiatives across multiple functions and geographies. Acting as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, you will help shape the strategic agenda of the ADS platform while ensuring measurable business outcomes and value creation.
Key responsibilities:
- Own a portfolio of enterprise transformation programmes across the Advanced Synthesis platform, ensuring delivery of strategic, operational, and financial objectives
- Lead the execution of high-impact business initiatives spanning multiple functions, business units, and global regions, driving measurable value creation and business outcomes
- Establish and govern transformation frameworks, operating models, prioritization processes, and execution standards to drive accountability and consistency across the organization
- Chair executive governance forums, steering committees, and strategic reviews, enabling timely decision-making and effective issue resolution
- Drive prioritization and resource allocation discussions in partnership with senior business leaders to maximize business impact and execution effectiveness
- Identify enterprise-level risks, dependencies, and organizational barriers, proactively driving mitigation plans and corrective actions
- Lead global cross-functional workstreams across commercial, operational, technical, quality, finance, strategy, and corporate functions
- Measure and communicate programme performance through KPIs, business outcome metrics, and value realization frameworks
- Champion continuous improvement of transformation capabilities, governance processes, and enterprise execution discipline
- Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on transformation strategy, organizational effectiveness, M&A integration activities, and strategic execution priorities
Requires qualifications:
- Extensive and proven experience in business transformation, enterprise PMO, strategic operations, management consulting, M&A, operational excellence, or related fields
- Proven track record leading large-scale transformation programmes and complex cross-functional initiatives within global, matrixed organizations
- Strong experience influencing senior stakeholders and driving alignment without direct authority across multiple business functions and organizational levels
- Demonstrated ability to balance strategic thinking with operational execution, translating business priorities into measurable outcomes
- Experience within life sciences, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, manufacturing, or other highly regulated industries is strongly preferred
- Strong understanding of enterprise governance, portfolio management, strategic planning, and transformation delivery methodologies
- Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, facilitation, and executive presentation skills
- Proven experience delivering measurable business outcomes through transformation initiatives, including operating model redesign, productivity improvement, organizational effectiveness, growth acceleration, value creation, or integration programmes
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments characterized by ambiguity, complexity, and competing priorities
