Lonza Capability Centers Design & Technology Transformation Lead — Lonza
- Location
- CH
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 7 days ago
Role overview
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.
- 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.
- Key Responsibilities
- Define and drive the global operating model, site strategy, and design principles for Lonza's Capability Center network, ensuring clear accountability, scalability, and alignment across all locations.
Main responsibilities
- Key Responsibilities
- Define and drive the global operating model, site strategy, and design principles for Lonza's Capability Center network, ensuring clear accountability, scalability, and alignment across all locations.
- Develop the long-term multi-site transformation roadmap, defining migration sequencing, capability deployment, operating model evolution, and readiness milestones across all Capability Centers.
- Serve as the enterprise design authority for Capability Center strategy, providing governance, resolving cross-site design challenges, and ensuring consistency across functions and geographies.
- Design and operationalize the Capability Center Centre of Excellence (CoE) framework, establishing governance, knowledge-sharing mechanisms, innovation practices, and continuous improvement capabilities across the network.
Company and context
- Lead the end-to-end technology strategy for the Capability Center organization, ensuring digital platforms, workflow solutions, integrations, and service management technologies enable the target operating model.
- Partner closely with Enterprise IT, ERP programme teams, and external technology partners to align technology roadmaps, manage dependencies, and ensure successful delivery across multiple transformation waves.
- Ensure technology platforms are designed to support future automation, AI, analytics, and continuous improvement initiatives while maintaining scalability and operational resilience.
- Drive alignment between SAP S/4HANA, enterprise architecture, service management platforms, and business workflows to enable seamless end-to-end operations across the Capability Center ecosystem.
- Ensure compliance with enterprise architecture standards, cybersecurity, data governance, and regulatory requirements across global operations.
- Lead cross-functional design workshops and influence senior business leaders to build alignment around strategic decisions, operating model evolution, and technology priorities.
- Manage key technology partners and external consulting organizations to ensure successful delivery, quality, and execution of strategic transformation initiatives.
- Build and lead a high-performing team, fostering collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement while supporting the long-term maturity of Lonza's global Capability Center model. Required qualifications:
- 15+ years of experience leading technology transformation, operating model design, or Global Business Services (GBS)/Global Capability Center (GCC) programmes within complex multinational organizations.
- Proven experience designing and implementing Global Capability Center operating models, shared service organizations, or enterprise service delivery transformations, preferably with hands-on experience in India.
Additional details
- Build and lead a high-performing team, fostering collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement while supporting the long-term maturity of Lonza's global Capability Center model.
Questions about this listing
What salary does Lonza offer for this role?
Lonza lists CHF 85'500 - 129'500 gross per year for this position in CH. This is the salary published in the original listing (or, when the employer omits a figure, a realistic estimate for the role and sector) — the calculator on this site converts it to your actual net take-home once cross-border tax and social contributions are applied.
Is this a full-time role, and what type of contract does Lonza offer?
This listing is a full-time position. The contract type shown here comes directly from the employer's original posting; always confirm exact hours, notice period and probation length with Lonza during the application process, since these details can vary by role even within the same contract category.
Do I need a cross-border work permit for a role in Basel?
EU/EFTA residents living in the border zone of the country adjoining Canton Basel can apply for a G permit; the Swiss employer files it with that canton's migration office after the contract is signed. Border-zone rules and processing times vary by neighbouring country and canton, so confirm the specifics with Basel's cantonal migration office or with HR during the application.
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