Senior Project Manager, Finance

Lonza Biologics Porriño SLU; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading life sciences company in Manchester seeks an experienced Project Manager to oversee transformative projects in financial processes. The successful candidate will develop project plans, coordinate stakeholder engagement, and ensure timely delivery. Ideal candidates will have relevant project management qualifications and experience in managing global projects. This position offers a hybrid work model, blending office and remote work.

Benefits

Agile career and dynamic working culture

Inclusive and ethical workplace

Hybrid working policy

Access to global benefits

Qualifications

• Experience of project management within financial processes.
• Experience implementing and running global projects.
• Enable the design, development, delivery, and management of communications.

Responsibilities

• Ensure projects are delivered on-time and within budget.
• Develop project scope and objectives with stakeholders.
• Create a detailed project plan to track progress.
• Engage with leadership and end-user communities.

Skills

Project management experience

Business Change Management

Stakeholder Management

Continuous Improvement management

Education

PM qualification (APMP, PMP, Prince2)

Job description

Role Purpose

The successful candidate will support projects 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.

What you will get

• An agile career and dynamic working culture
• An inclusive and ethical workplace
• Hybrid working policy - 2 days in the office, 3 days WFH
• A variety of benefits tailored to Manchester
• Access to global benefits via

What you will do

• 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

What we are looking for

• 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
• An acknowledged PM qualification (APMP, PMP, Prince2)

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.