Lonza
Manager, MSAT Downstream
Manager, MSAT Downstream
Location: Portsmouth, NH.
The MSAT Downstream Manager is responsible for leading a small group of professional scientists whose major responsibility is process transfer and/or support for a number of different customer projects. You will be accountable for the delivery of your team's upstream or downstream functional services to manufacturing assets. This management includes ensuring work is carried out against time, quality, and safety goals.
What you will get:
An agile career and dynamic working culture
An inclusive and ethical workplace
Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses
401(k) matching plan
Competitive compensation programs that reward high performance
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
Access to our full list of global benefits: https://www.lonza.com/careers/benefits
What you will do:
Independently manage a high-performing team, ensuring safe and compliant execution of daily operations. Provide coaching, feedback, and development opportunities to team members. Identify skill gaps, support succession planning, and promote a collaborative and inclusive team culture.
Set clear expectations, monitors team performance, and ensure alignment with departmental goals. Lead resource planning and workload balancing to meet project and operational demands efficiently.
Guide the team in resolving complex technical issues and support decision-making on deviations, process changes, and regulatory documentation. Ensure team members are equipped to handle both routine and non-standard technical challenges.
Represent the team in customer forums, ensuring effective communication and alignment. Coache team members on customer interaction and escalate major issues as needed.
Translate business objectives into team-level action plans. Lead or sponsor key projects, tracks progress through KPIs and removes barriers to execution.
Champion Lean principles and drive change initiatives within the team. Encourage innovation, challenges the status quo, and support continuous improvement efforts.
Ensure team compliance with all training and cGMP requirements. Oversee training effectiveness and supports the creation of training content to build team capability.
What we are looking for:
8+ year's of experience with a Bachelor's Degree, 6 years with Master's, 5 years with PhD in process development and process scale up / manufacturing.
Experience with large scale manufacturing support (mammalian preferred), current Good Manufacturing Practices, US / EU regulations, supervision.
Requires good project and program management skills with systematic approaches to problem solving.
Must be able to break down complex problems and tasks into activities capable of being performed by personnel.
Experienced in chromatography and filtration.
Demonstrates leadership by mentoring peers and managing teams, driving cross-functional collaboration, and contributing to strategic decision-making in support of continuous improvement and operational excellence.
About Lonza
At Lonza, our people are our greatest strength. With 30+ sites across five continents, our globally connected teams work together every day to manufacture the medicines of tomorrow. Our core values of Collaboration, Accountability, Excellence, Passion and Integrity reflect who we are and how we work together. Everyone’s ideas, big or small, have the potential to improve millions of lives, and that’s the kind of work we want you to be part of.
Innovation thrives when people from all backgrounds bring their unique perspectives to the table. At Lonza, we offer equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you’re ready to help turn our customers’ breakthrough ideas into viable therapies, we look forward to welcoming you on board.
Ready to shape the future of life sciences? Apply now.