Manufacturing Transformation Lead (m/w/d) (80-100%)

Lonza; Switzerland; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Agile career

Inclusive workplace

Competitive salary

Lifestyle benefits

Relocation support

Job summary

Lonza in Switzerland seeks a Manufacturing Transformation Lead (Director level) to translate evolving roadmaps from Integrated Biologics, Advanced Synthesis and Specialized Modalities into scalable future manufacturing concepts.

You will collaborate with Platforms, R&D and Strategic Innovation to define how processes should be manufactured, automated and operated, aiming for reduced manual intervention and touchless operations.

Qualifications

• Ability to translate science and process roadmaps into integrated future manufacturing concepts.
• Strong GMP and regulatory knowledge.
• Proven cross-functional leadership across sites and platforms.
• Excellent communication with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to optimize unit costs and productivity across manufacturing networks.

Responsibilities

• Translate roadmaps into future manufacturing concepts, operating requirements and cost implications.
• Lead pilots and drive unit-cost diagnostics and value-driven design.
• Coordinate platform, site and functional resources.
• Ensure integration of solutions from multiple workstreams into coherent concepts.

Skills

Life sciences

Biopharma manufacturing

Process development

GMP knowledge

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

Education

Life sciences degree

Job description

A Career at Lonza

What you'll get

• An agile career and a dynamic work culture
• An inclusive and ethical workplace
• Compensation programs that recognize high performance
• In addition to a competitive salary, you can expect numerous lifestyle, family, and leisure benefits.
• Relocation support for eligible candidate

The Manufacturing Transformation Lead (Director level) translates the evolving scientific and process roadmaps of Integrated Biologics, Advanced Synthesis and Specialized Modalities into future manufacturing concepts that support the Advanced Industry unit-cost ambition.

The role works closely with Platforms, R&D and Strategic Innovation to understand expected process evolution and then determines how those processes should be manufactured and operated in the future. This includes the application of advanced technologies, process intensification, PAT, process equipment concepts, automation, reduced manual intervention and increasingly touchless operations.

The role leads the Manufacturing Transformation Lead pilots, starting with Mammalian DS and Bioconjugation DS, using unit-cost diagnostics and future-state design to identify where changes to the manufacturing process, equipment and way of operating can create step-change value.

The Manufacturing Transformation Lead works closely with the Program Integration & Scale-Up Lead to translate pilot and platform requirements into coordinated program increments and to integrate relevant solutions from the other Advanced Industry workstreams back into the future manufacturing concepts.

As a core member of the Advanced Industry LT, this role connects platform innovation with manufacturing transformation, ensuring that scientific progress is translated into scalable manufacturing concepts that improve unit cost, productivity, robustness and long-term competitiveness.

What you will do

• Platform Translation & Manufacturing Concepts
  • Align with Platform, R&D and Strategic Innovation roadmaps across all three business platforms
  • Translate scientific and process evolution into manufacturing concepts, operating requirements and cost implications
  • Identify opportunities from process intensification, PAT, advanced process equipment and reduced manual intervention
  • Challenge how future processes can be manufactured more simply, efficiently and autonomously
• Pilot Leadership
  • Drive unit-cost diagnostic and future-state manufacturing design
  • Identify and prioritize process, equipment and operating-model interventions
  • Coordinate matrixed platform, site and functional resources
• Manufacturing Requirements & Integration
  • Translate future manufacturing concepts into requirements for equipment, automation, data, facility and lab capabilities
  • Work with Advanced Manufacturing Technology to identify enabling technologies for automation, touchless operations and process control
  • Ensure solutions from other Advanced Industry workstreams are integrated into coherent manufacturing concepts
  • Work with Program Integration & Scale-Up to synchronize requirements and increments across the program
• Value & Replication
  • Ensure future-state concepts are anchored in measurable unit-cost and productivity improvement
  • Translate pilot learnings into reusable manufacturing concepts and design principles
  • Support replication across all three platforms, sites and future builds
  • Contribute to prioritization of future Manufacturing Transformation Lead pilots and use cases

What we are looking for

• Bachelor or Master in the field of Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Chemical Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations Management, or a related discipline
• Future Manufacturing Strategy & Concept Development: Ability to translate scientific, process and technology roadmaps into integrated future manufacturing concepts, design principles and operating requirements
• Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing & Process Knowledge: Strong understanding of manufacturing science, process technologies, operations and GMP requirements, with the ability to connect process evolution to facility and operating-model implications
• Unit-Cost & Manufacturing Economics: Ability to diagnose major cost and productivity drivers, quantify improvement potential and use economics to guide concept choices and pilot priorities
• End-to-End Manufacturing Systems Thinking: Ability to integrate process technology, automation, data, facility design, people and operating-model considerations into a coherent future-state concept.
• Cross-Functional Pilot Leadership: Demonstrated ability to mobilize and align multidisciplinary teams across platforms, sites and global functions without relying on direct authority.
• Executive Communication & Influence: Ability to communicate complex future-state concepts, trade-offs, evidence and recommendations clearly to senior business, technical and operational stakeholders.
• Pilot Governance, Risk & Decision Management: Experience structuring hypotheses, decision criteria, risks and dependencie