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.

We are currently looking for an experienced Executive recruiter to join our executive recruiting practice to support key leadership succession and hiring priorities of Lonza. The Global Talent Scouts are positioned strategically within Lonza Talent Acquisition to enable the full end to end delivery of executive recruitment and development of external succession strategies for top leadership positions in advance of hiring needs.

With the scope across all geographies and divisions of the Lonza business, they are primarily  responsible for the delivery of the best talent to Lonza’s executive community. This position will be a strategic advisor to both business and HR on executive recruiting strategies, assessment modalities, and ultimately will be responsible for a “white glove” recruiting process.

The Global Talent Scout will also work with a sourcing team to build deep networks in the external candidate markets, by identifying and engaging with highly sought after talent, and inspiring them to join Lonza. 

Key responsibilities:

• Define and lead the end – to – end ownership of the recruiting strategy for executive level positions. Including multiple routes to market (advertising, direct sourcing, internal referrals), to generate support the business in our most senior hires.




• Maintaining accurate and timely data on our ATS system (workday)




• Leverage Assessment tools to provide multiple data-points on senior level candidates, facilitating the selection of the best talent for the business.




• Utilize reporting and dashboards, to effectively communicate to the business and HR the current open positions, as well as past performance.




• Define and lead through the sourcing team external talent-pipeline strategies and initiatives, aligned to the respective business functional priorities, in order to create and maintain relevant and rich external talent pipelines of specialized skillset and leadership talent




• Work closely with key stakeholders and internal partners including HRBPs, People and Organizational Development (P&OD), and Business and Operations leadership, to understand critical skills and the current internal talent populations in order to deliver the best talent for open executive positions.




• Create internal and external networks to leverage connections to talent groups as required




• Drive pro-actively the external scouting relationship management activities by optimizing the usage of all required channels (Social Networks, Candidate Databases, Professional Associations and Industry Conferences)




• Provide market intelligence to support talent strategy course corrections, and act as enterprise-wide subject matter expert on external talent trends and executive search strategies, using the typical rigor of an executive search firm.

Key requirements:

• Degree educated HR / business, or related scientific discipline.




• Extensive experience in executive search / talent scouting / talent acquisition of senior management roles.




• Executive-level communication in English




• Exceptional presentation and business partnering skills, with the ability to build effective relationships across the TA Centre of Expertise, Human Resources, and the business.




• Knowledge of Assessment tools (i.e. Psychometric testing), as well as significant experience in assessing and interviewing senior executives




• Experience conducting talent market research, preparing talent long lists, executing outreach, exploratory meetings, and short-listing most viable talents.




• Experience designing pro-active talent engagement and relationship management. All of these abilities preferably in Executive Search and in the Pharma/Biotech sector.




• Technically savvy, able to navigate changing landscape of pro-active talent acquisition tools and global channels to identify and engage with potential candidates. This would ideally include experience of working with Workday as an ATS.




• Skilled relationship builder, with ability to nurture relationships over long time periods.

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.