Chief of Staff

vor 1 Woche

Basel, Basel-Stadt, Schweiz Lonza Vollzeit
Switzerland, BaselToday, Lonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across three 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.


As the CHI Chief of Staff, you'll work directly for the CHI BU President and closely with our leadership team to help grow, scale and run the day to day operations of CHI more effectively.

In this role, you will have an opportunity to make an immediate impact on CHI productivity, overseeing communication objectives and managing and driving key projects.

This role requires a highly resourceful, self-driven individual with the ability to partner, execute, and lead through influence. You will be the right hand of the CHI President to execute on all major Business Unit priorities.


This role will work collaboratively and in close partnership with other key stakeholders of the leadership team, including Commercial, Marketing, R&D, HR, Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, IT.


Key responsibilities:

  • Act as an extension of the President on strategic projects.
  • Manage projects for the President, ensuring deadlines are met and appropriate steps taken. Help keep the President on track, regularly report status, and proactively lighten his workload.
  • Identify and own key projects to drive operational maturity in CHI in partnership with the President.
  • Join businessrelated calls, take thorough notes and participate in next steps and action items.
  • Serve as the organizational "glue" connecting, onboarding, and supporting the growth of leadership and integration efforts.
  • Prepare and execute all executive materials and presentations.
  • Improve current processes and coordinate organizational procedures for optimized efficiency and productivity.
  • Develop agendas and materials for executive meetings; track action plans and followups to completion.
  • Create high quality presentations for the EC, Board of Directors and other departments/divisions as required.
  • Attend meetings on behalf of the President and act as a representative when required.
  • Help with calendar management, scheduling and logistics for the President.

Who You Are:

  • Integrity and Ethics: Be honest, have integrity, intensity and passion necessary to blend with the rest of the leadership team. Highly collaborative with a commitment to Lonza and CHI's mission and values.
  • Selfstarter: someone who loves to own things endtoend; you don't ask for permission, you make it happen.
  • Passion: An enthusiastic, highenergy and motivating individual with a growth mindset who is visibly passionate and is capable of inspiring a fast growing and highly ambitious organization.
  • Results Oriented: A strong focus on execution. Transformation capabilities are critical for success. Success will be judged on what is accomplished and delivered, not what is proposed.
  • Collaboration: Highly entrepreneurial, with a high level of energy, dedication, and a persevering drive to succeed and win. Not afraid to work side by side with the CHI LT and other CHI teams.
  • Communicator. You have excellent verbal and written skills. You write well, understand the power of storytelling and ensure follow up. You are able to effectively influence and communicate crossfunctionally with all levels of management.
  • Ambitious. Strong strategic skills required to think long term and the results orientation to focus fiercely on execution through process and rigor. Success in a strategy or operations role, with a special strength in executivelevel advising and crossfunctional collaboration.
  • Energetic and detail oriented. Comfortable moving at a fast pace and working in ambiguity.

Key requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration.
  • Experience within business or consulting is required.
  • Experience working with and influencing senior stakeholders including Csuite.
  • Experience managing multiple complex projects and leading crossfunctional teams (Commercial, Marketing, R&D, Operations, Finance, Quality).
  • Experience with gathering, analyzing and understanding divergent data and ability to synthetize, formulate hypothesis, recommendations and translate into actionable plans.
  • Experience in developing compelling business cases.
  • English is required; German is preferred.
  • Working knowledge of Continuous Improvement methods would be a great plus.
  • Highly resourceful and excellent problemsolving skills.
  • Passionate for the health and wellness industry.
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 t

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