Operational Excellence Specialist

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 Operational Excellence Specialist at Lonza AG offers a remarkable opportunity for those who are motivated by data and results. This role is uniquely positioned to influence and drive broad change across global systems and processes, ensuring a flawless customer experience both internally and externally.

• Act as a key member for global and high impact strategic projects driven by the Global Process Owner organisation

• Collaborate and engage with the Finance organisation to streamline the End to End Record to Report process by effectively managing relationships with various parties

• Develop positive partnerships with critical team members throughout different areas to encourage collaboration for effective solution delivery

• Identify and back process re-engineering and ongoing improvement initiatives in Record to Report processes in the respective Shared Service Centre

• Analyse data and find opportunities, develop hypotheses, and once validated manage the change process to ensure they are deployed with minimal disruption

• Use current tools and new technologies to emphasize opportunities to relevant customers

• Foster culture of continuous improvement by sharing guidelines and demonstrating visible hands-on leadership

• Ensure appropriate and relevant controls are applied with R2R process stream, continuously monitor control requirements and drive appropriate control gap resolution

• Build and maintain RtR process documentation, drive global process adherence and control of process deviations

• Degree in Accounting / Finance / Business Administration or relevant experience

• Strong functional expertise and understanding/interest in end-to-end business processes

• Proven problem-solving and root cause identification skills

• Ability to structure complex action plans that account for the end-to-end dependencies of their specialist process

• Competence to build and conduct presentations and trainings effectively

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.