Strategic CAPEX & Investment Portfolio Leader

Lonza; Basel; Hybrid; Vertraulich; Full time

Job summary

Lonza in Basel/Visp (Switzerland) leads strategic CAPEX and investment portfolio management. The Senior Director role centers on governance, capital planning and portfolio prioritization, aligning investments with business needs across sites and functions.

You will guide investments from opportunity assessment through approval and mobilization, ensuring value realization and informed capital allocation decisions.

Qualifications

• Relevant academic background in engineering, finance, business administration, life sciences or related.
• Experience in investment portfolio management, capex planning and investment governance within biopharmaceutical manufacturing or strategy consulting.

Responsibilities

• Lead governance of Specialized Modalities CAPEX portfolio and major projects.
• Drive annual and long-range CAPEX planning and prioritize investment pipeline.
• Develop capital allocation recommendations for senior leadership.
• Coordinate stage-gate reviews and ensure ready-for-decision proposals.
• Integrate cross-functional inputs into coherent business cases and challenge assumptions.
• Collaborate with Finance and Global Value Assurance on financial evaluation and scenarios.
• Support sites during early investment development and translate business needs into requirements.
• Ensure end-to-end lifecycle continuity and structured handovers to execution teams.
• Monitor portfolio performance and escalate material deviations and risks.
• Enhance portfolio reporting with data-driven analytics and continuous improvement; familiarity with AI-enabled approaches is advantageous.

Skills

Investment governance

CAPEX planning

Portfolio prioritization

Cross-functional leadership

Financial evaluation

Executive communication

Data analytics

Scenario analysis

Risk management

AI-enabled tooling

Education

Academic background in engineering/finance/business/life sciences

Tools

Digital portfolio reporting tools

AI-enabled analytics tools

Job description

Lonza in Basel/Visp (Switzerland) leads strategic CAPEX and investment portfolio management. The Senior Director role centers on governance, capital planning and portfolio prioritization, aligning investments with business needs across sites and functions.

You will guide investments from opportunity assessment through approval and mobilization, ensuring value realization and informed capital allocation decisions.