Project Manager

Lonza Biologics Porriño SLU; Manchester; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in life sciences is seeking a Project Manager in Manchester to drive transformation projects within the finance function. The role requires significant project management experience, especially in financial processes, along with strong stakeholder management skills. This is an opportunity to contribute to impactful projects across multiple regions, offering the chance to grow professionally while making a difference.

Qualifications

• Experienced Project Manager within financial processes.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects under pressure.
• Experience with stakeholder management and training delivery.

Responsibilities

• Ensure projects are delivered on-time, within scope and budget.
• Develop a detailed project plan to track progress.
• Measure project performance using appropriate systems and tools.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder Management

Business Change Management

Education

APMP, PMP, Prince2 qualifications

Job description

Costa Rica, San Jose
United Kingdom, Manchester

Job Title – Project Manager
Location: Manchester UK, or San Jose, Costa Rica.

Today, Lonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across three 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.

Role Purpose

The successful candidate will support projects as a project manager that deliver effective transformation change within the Global Business Service Organization and the wider Lonza finance function in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific regions. The type of projects to be delivered include among others process migration, process re-engineering and IT Implementations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure that the projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget
• Together with project sponsor developing project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
• Ensure resource availability and allocation
• Develop a detailed project plan to track progress
• Stakeholder engagement, reporting up to leadership and also engaging with end-user communities
• Validation techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs
• Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques
• Report and escalate to management as needed
• Manage the relationship with all stakeholders

Key Requirements:

• Project manager with experience of project management within financial processes, Continuous Improvement management.
• Business Change Management involving rollout of new processes to end users. Stakeholder Management and organisation of training delivery.
• Support communication efforts. Enable the design, development, delivery and management of key communications.
• Experience implementing and running global projects
• High motivation with relevant project management skills
• An acknowledged PM qualification (APMP, PMP, Prince2)would be beneficial
• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple projects at once to meet deadlines

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.