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Hiring for Associate Director, Media Solutions - Bioscience

Today, 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.

Job Description Summary

The Associate Director Media Solutions plans and oversees strategic plans relating to the media portfolio and risks in the portfolio. Their primary responsibilities include developing long-term business strategies and product roadmaps to support NPI, growth and revenue, identifying weaknesses or opportunities in ongoing tactical and analyzing and assessing internal processes, market trends competitor offerings. The Associate Director of media needs to be an industry expert and KOL in the upstream media space for protein, cell and gene therapies.

Key responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing long-range plans for the business, that maximizes molecule and therapy capture, strong portfolio offering, and ensures consistent delivery of business targets.
• Engages at executive leadership level with key customers and drives strategically important interactions to secure long-term strategic business opportunities
• Leads long-range asset optimization planning to ensure alignment of commercial goals and operations strategies
• Provides a comprehensive analysis of competitors offering
• Supports the Portfolio Management team to proactively plan a robust portfolio roadmap to mitigate business risk and avoid negative variances
• Provides leadership and established effective communication channels to ensure alignment within the Bioprocessing organization, working closely with sales to understand needs
• Maintains high levels of market awareness, ensuring market intelligence is deployed to support of execution of long-term growth strategy

Skills:

• Highly experienced, senior leader with background of similar roles within the Bioprocessing upstream markets
• Exceptional leadership and people management skills. Interpersonal savvy – capable of managing multiple points of view and building partnerships
• Ability to bring divergent personalities together to build a team that deliver results. Skillful bringing conflict to resolution
• Ability to manage complexity and quickly analyze data to formulate hypothesis and make recommendations
• Ability to create new business models that drive growth
• Commercially savvy, deep market understanding, and ability to foresee patters / trends within customers and technologies
• Excellent communication, presentation and listening skills

Education Requirement:

BS or BA - Life Science

MBA Preferred

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.

Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including the location of the successful candidate, qualifications, skills, competencies, experience, and job-related knowledge. Full-time employees receive a comprehensive benefits package including performance-related bonus, medical and dental coverage, 401k plan, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time off (PTO), and more.

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.