Vice President, Supply Chain, Integrated Biologics

Lonza; Schweiz; On-site; Vertraulich; Full time

Job summary

Lonza, a global leader in life sciences, seeks a senior executive to lead the end-to-end Integrated Biologics Supply Chain. You will define strategy, build a high‑performing leadership team across sites, and ensure reliable delivery while driving growth and digital transformation.

The role demands extensive global SC experience in pharma/biotech, strong financial acumen, and fluent English. APICS/Lean Six Sigma qualifications are a plus, with a focus on governance, risk, and compliance

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Business, Economics, Supply Chain, Engineering or related field.
• Extensive senior leadership experience in a global manufacturing setting.
• Broad Supply Chain expertise spanning demand and supply planning, S&OP, production planning, inventory, logistics and network planning.
• Proven experience leading across multiple manufacturing sites and international networks, translating strategy into execution.
• Strong financial and commercial acumen with ability to balance service, cost and working capital.
• Executive communication, influencing and decision‑making skills in a matrixed org.
• Business-fluent English is required; APICS and/or Lean Six Sigma qualifications are an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the Integrated Biologics Supply Chain strategy across the global network.
• Lead the end-to-end SC organization across site and global functions; build high‑performing leadership teams.
• Ensure reliable customer delivery through integrated demand and supply planning, S&OP, production planning and inventory management.
• Drive network, capacity and inventory strategy balancing service, resilience, cost and working capital.
• Lead SC transformation through digital enablement, data transparency and performance management.
• Collaborate with Operations, Quality, Finance and other functions to ensure GMP/GDP, regulatory and customer requirements.

Skills

Senior leadership

End-to-end SC

Global manufacturing

Education

Master's degree (Business, Economics, SC, Engineering)

Job description

Today, Lonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across five continents. While we work in science, there's no magic formula to how we do it. Our greatest scientific solution is talented people working together, devising ideas that help businesses to help people. In exchange, we let our people own their careers. Their ideas, big and small, genuinely improve the world. And that's the kind of work we want to be part of.

The Vice President, Supply Chain, Integrated Biologics is a senior leadership role responsible for the end-to-end Supply Chain organization across Lonza's Integrated Biologics platform. This position leads the Integrated Biologics Supply Chain organization, including site Supply Chain Heads and global Supply Chain functions.

The role combines strategic leadership with operational execution, ensuring reliable customer delivery, effective network and capacity planning, strong inventory performance, supply resilience and operational readiness. It also plays a key role in enabling growth, transformation and scalable execution across the Integrated Biologics platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and execute the Integrated Biologics Supply Chain strategy, aligning customer commitments, growth priorities, manufacturing capacity, financial objectives and operational execution across the global network.
• Lead the end-to-end Supply Chain organization across site and global functions, building a high-performing leadership team and strengthening capabilities, accountability and succession across the organization.
• Ensure reliable customer delivery through integrated demand and supply planning, S&OP and S&OE, production planning, material readiness, logistics, warehousing and inventory management.
• Lead network, capacity and inventory strategy, balancing customer service, supply resilience, working capital, cost and risk, while ensuring readiness for growth programs, new assets, technology transfers, launches and commercial ramp-ups.
• Drive Supply Chain transformation through process standardization, digital enablement, automation, advanced planning capabilities, data transparency and robust performance management.
• Partner closely with Operations, Quality, Commercial, Finance, Procurement, MSAT and other functions to manage risks, enable business priorities and ensure compliance with applicable GMP, GDP, Quality, EHS, regulatory and customer requirements.

Key Requirements

• Master's degree in Business Administration, Economics, Supply Chain, Engineering or a related discipline; an MBA is preferred.
• Extensive senior leadership experience across end-to-end Supply Chain within a complex global manufacturing environment, ideally in pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, biotechnology or CDMO operations.
• Broad Supply Chain expertise spanning demand and supply planning, S&OP, production planning, inventory, logistics, warehousing and network planning, combined with a strong understanding of manufacturing operations.
• Proven experience leading across multiple manufacturing sites and international networks, translating business strategy into execution and driving large-scale Supply Chain transformation and digitalization.
• Strong financial and commercial acumen, with the ability to balance customer service, capacity, inventory, cost, working capital and operational risk.
• Proven ability to build and lead high-performing teams in a matrixed organization, combined with strong strategic thinking, executive communication, influencing and decision-making skills.
• Business-fluent English is required.
• APICS and/or Lean Six Sigma qualifications are an advantage.

Every day, Lonza's products and services have a positive impact on millions of people. For us, this is not only a great privilege, but also a great responsibility. How we achieve our business results is just as important as the achievements themselves. At Lonza, we respect and protect our people and our environment. Any success we achieve is no success at all if not achieved ethically.

People come to Lonza for the challenge and creativity of solving complex problems and developing new ideas in life sciences. In return, we offer the satisfaction that comes with improving lives all around the world. The satisfaction that comes with making a meaningful difference.

Lonza is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a qualified individual with disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.