Senior Scientific Project Manager

Lonza; Slough; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Lonza, a global leader in life sciences, is seeking a Scientific Senior Program Manager to lead cross-functional project teams. This role offers the opportunity to manage multiple projects, ensure customer satisfaction, and work in a fast-paced environment focused on improving lives globally.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in project/program management.
• Extensive experience in customer interaction and team coordination.
• Project management experience in the pharmaceutical or related industries.

Responsibilities

• Lead project execution ensuring quality in cost, time, and risk management.
• Direct and motivate multidisciplinary project teams to achieve results.
• Serve as single point of contact for operational program aspects.

Skills

Project Management

Customer Interaction

Team Leadership

Collaboration

Pharmaceutical Knowledge

Education

Scientific or Engineering Degree

PMP or Prince 2 Certification

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 role:

As a Scientific Senior Program Manager, you will have full responsibility and accountability for all operational aspects in leading a cross-functional project team to deliver on all scope objectives with the highest level of quality. You will be the single point of contact to the customer whilst being the customer's advocate within the Lonza network with the goal of achieving total customer satisfaction. This person will be required to manage a number of projects at any one time with a quick turnaround. This is a fast-paced environment that offers great opportunities.

This is an outstanding opportunity for a candidate with previous Project Manager / Program Manager experience to join the team and take on some interesting projects!

Key Responsibilities

• Lead project execution post-deal closure, ensuring seamless project initiation, planning, execution, and control (cost, time, quality, and risk).

• Direct and motivate multidisciplinary project teams, ensuring all team members remain accountable for delivering outstanding results.

• Conduct internal and external project team meetings to ensure all collaborators and customers follow the agreed Project Plan.

• Secure necessary resources and capacity commitments, acquiring agreement from all relevant team members.

• Serve as the single point of contact for all operational aspects of the program.

• Understand customer needs and commit to project scope and timelines, ensuring agreement from both the project team and the customer.

• Represent the customer project within the Lonza Network, acting as the customer’s advocate on-site.

• Collaborate with Sales to ensure customer happiness throughout the project lifecycle.

Key Requirements

• Proven experience in project/program management.

• Extensive experience in a role involving direct customer interaction and effective collaborator coordination.

• Demonstrated project management experience within the Pharmaceutical, Biologics, Medical Devices, or similar industries.

• A scientific or engineering degree is essential.

• Desired understanding of Pharmaceutical Industry-related Biotech processing.

• PMP or Prince 2 certification is desirable.

• Ability to prioritise tasks with various customers.

• Preferred understanding of the early development of biologics.

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.