Director, Head of Supply Chain

Supply Chain Manager

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.

Key responsibilities :

• Flawless coordination of site planning alignment (from demand to execution).
• Planning and executing operational buying activities.
• Ensuring through the warehouse / logistics team that the movement of materials across the site and distribution of products to the customers is conducted, securing compliance with internal and external standards.
• Responsible for all medium and short-term planning processes to ensure fully integrated asset capacity planning, labor planning and material planning.
• Providing forecasting scenario integrating demand within operation network capacities over a rolling 2-to-5-year time horizon.
• Manage creation and maintenance of master data and ensure optimal leverage of ERP system.
• SC Team leadership including optimal resources allocation, hiring, gap analysis and talent development.
• Measure and report supply chain Key Performance Indicators. Define targets and initiate appropriate measures to achieve targets.
• Lead the monthly site Supply S&OP meeting, provide a monthly forecast of all site-based deliverables, update financial outlook for the site, and submit to BU Planner.
• Defining and executing process and organizational improvement projects to further develop supply chain performance. Manage execution of Supply Chain Transformation.
• Serve as member of the Site Leadership Team (SLT) representing the local SC departments as well as the customer portfolio.

Key requirements :

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.

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.