Associate Director, Sustainability Marketing & Capability Building

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.

In this remote Associate Director, Sustainability Marketing & Capability Building position you will be developing our sustainability strategies on a site, product and divisional level. You will act as one our key global leader for Lonza Capsule & Health Ingredient (CHI) business. You will develop and strengthen awareness and skills of the CHI community on sustainability and decarbonization topics!

Sustainability Marketing

• Act as a sustainability focal point towards CHI Commercial and Marketing functions (Sales, Business Development, Marketing…)
• Collaborate on a regular basis with our center of applied sustainability to translate elements of Lonza CHI’s sustainability strategic roadmap into clear commercial value propositions
• Customer engagement: work closely with sales, supply chain and product management to develop communication on our sustainability efforts to customers and foster partnerships
• Support the understanding customers' sustainability needs and translating into product requirements and value propositions
• Lead & facilitate customer workshops or audits on sustainability
• Key opinion leadership: Stay ahead of pharma and Health & Nutrition market & technology trends in sustainability by conducting research, participating in conferences and preparing reports
• Respond to sustainability requests from the market & customers, working together with the CHI center of applied sustainability
• Contribute to commercial and technical assessments to drive measures for life cycle initiatives (e.g., emission reduction, water consumption etc.) across CHI

Capability building

• Develop, implement, and train the engagement strategy in close collaboration with CHI Internal communication and HR departments
• Develop & implement training content & rollout roadmap (launch, delivery, scale, impact) to improve organizational climate literacy
• Grow and expand our corporate skills about sustainability topics of CHI employees globally and at country level
• Develop CHI customers engagement to drive actions on sustainability
• Advocacy: champion sustainability internally and externally, raising awareness among employees, customers, advocacy groups and industry partners

Key requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree or equivalent experience in sustainability or business administration
• Extensive experience in leading sustainability projects and crafting the backbone of their marketing
• Ability to travel regularly to our CHI sites, global conferences and represent our organization's leadership team there!
• Working proficiency of English, additional language is a plus

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.
 

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.