Portfolio Management

Lonza; Hyderabad; Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

Lonza in Hyderabad is seeking a Portfolio Governance & Financial Excellence Lead for Enterprise Solutions. You will establish governance, drive portfolio transparency, and align budgets with strategic IT initiatives.

The role partners with IT leadership, finance, and vendors to optimize investments and deliver tangible business value. The position is office-first with up to 20% remote work, offering exposure to global digital transformation programs and enterprise governance practices within

Qualifications

• Proven experience in portfolio governance, PMO leadership, financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, or enterprise IT governance roles.
• Strong understanding of portfolio management, project governance, investment planning, and value realization practices.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain governance processes for collection, evaluation, prioritization, and management of the Enterprise Solutions portfolio.
• Drive transparency across the portfolio by tracking status, milestones, risks, dependencies, resource utilization, and financial performance.
• Partner with Business Stakeholders, Project Managers, Functional Leads, and PMO teams to ensure portfolio alignment, data quality, and governance.
• Monitor strategic IT initiatives and transformation programs, providing leadership visibility through dashboards and performance reporting.
• Identify portfolio risks, issues, and interdependencies and facilitate escalation and resolution.
• Lead financial planning activities for Enterprise Solutions, including budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and cost management.
• Manage and maintain budget tracking across projects, applications, Opex, software licensing, contracts, and external services.
• Analyze financial performance and provide recommendations to improve transparency, optimize spending, and maximize business value.
• Partner with Finance, Controlling, Procurement, and IT Leadership to align budgets, forecasts, and actual expenditures.
• Track financial benefits and support value realization reporting for strategic initiatives and investment programs.
• Ensure compliance with corporate financial policies, governance requirements, and internal controls.
• Coordinate vendor-related activities, including contract renewals, purchase requests, invoice oversight, and license reviews.
• Collaborate with Procurement and Vendor Management to optimize vendor relationships and service outcomes.
• Support sourcing activities and commercial negotiations through financial analysis and performance insights.
• Define, implement, and monitor KPIs, dashboards, and scorecards for Enterprise Solutions.

Skills

Portfolio governance

PMO leadership

Financial planning

Budgeting

Forecasting

Vendor management

Performance management

Data visualization

Executive reporting

Job description

Portfolio Governance & Financial Excellence Lead, Enterprise Solutions

Location: Hyderabad, India

Join Lonza's Global IT organization as a Portfolio Governance & Financial Excellence Lead, Enterprise Solutions , where you will play a critical role in enabling effective portfolio governance, financial stewardship, vendor oversight, and performance management across the Enterprise Solutions organization. This position offers the opportunity to work closely with IT leadership, business stakeholders, finance partners, project teams, and external vendors to ensure strategic investments are governed effectively, resources are optimized, and enterprise initiatives deliver measurable business value.

This is an office-first role. Working together in person supports close, real-time collaboration and team alignment, enabling us to deliver our best work. You will work primarily in the office, with the flexibility to work remotely for 20% of your time (one day per week).

What you will get

• An agile career and dynamic working culture.
• An inclusive and ethical workplace.
• Compensation programs that recognize high performance.
• Opportunities to contribute to global digital transformation and enterprise solutions initiatives.
• Exposure to strategic portfolio management, financial planning, governance, and executive decision-making processes.
• Professional growth through leadership of enterprise-wide governance, reporting, and operational excellence initiatives.
• Collaboration with global IT teams, business stakeholders, finance organizations, and technology partners.
• A variety of benefits dependent on role and location.

The full list of our global benefits can be found here: https://www.lonza.com/careers/benefits

What you will do

• Establish and maintain governance processes for the collection, evaluation, prioritization, and management of the Enterprise Solutions portfolio.
• Drive transparency across the portfolio by tracking project status, milestones, risks, dependencies, resource utilization, and financial performance.
• Partner with Business Stakeholders, Project Managers, Functional Leads, and PMO teams to ensure portfolio alignment, data quality, and effective governance.
• Monitor strategic IT initiatives and transformation programs, providing leadership visibility through portfolio dashboards, governance reviews, and performance reporting.
• Identify portfolio risks, issues, and interdependencies and facilitate timely escalation and resolution.
• Lead financial planning activities for Enterprise Solutions, including budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and cost management.
• Manage and maintain budget tracking across projects, applications, operational expenditures, software licensing, contracts, and external services.
• Analyze financial performance and provide recommendations to improve transparency, optimize spending, and maximize business value.
• Partner closely with Finance, Controlling, Procurement, and IT Leadership to align budgets, forecasts, and actual expenditures.
• Track financial benefits and support value realization reporting for strategic initiatives and investment programs.
• Ensure compliance with corporate financial policies, governance requirements, and internal controls.
• Coordinate vendor-related activities, including contract renewals, purchase requests, invoice oversight, software licensing reviews, and performance management.
• Collaborate with Procurement and Vendor Management functions to optimize vendor relationships, commercial agreements, and service outcomes.
• Support sourcing activities and commercial negotiations through financial analysis and performance insights.
• Define, implement, and monitor success metrics, KPIs, dashboards, and scorecards for the Enterprise Solutions organization.
• Develop executive reporting and management communications for IT Leadership, CIO stakeholders, and governance committees.
• Translate complex portfolio, financial, and operational data into meaningful and actionable business insights.
• Prepare executive presentations, business reviews, steering committee materials, and strategic communications.
• Utilize advanced analytical capabilities to support trend analysis, forecasting, scenario modelling, and decision-making.
• Drive continuous improvement of reporting standards, automation opportunities, and data visualization capabilities.
• Develop and enhance governance frameworks, operating procedures, and management practices that improve organizational effectiveness.
• Support cross-functional strategic initiatives and enterprise transformation programs.
• Act as a trusted advisor to Enterprise Solution leaders, Value Stream Leads, Process Delivery Leads, and senior business stakeholders.

What we are looking for

• Proven experience in portfolio governance, PMO leadership, financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, or enterprise IT governance roles.
• Strong understanding of portfolio management, project governance, investment planning, and value realization practices.
• Experience m