Portfolio Management

Portfolio Governance & Financial Excellence Lead, Enterprise Solutions Location: Hyderabad, India Join Lonza's Global IT organization as a Portfolio Governance & Financial Excellence Lead, Enterprise Solutions , where you will play a critical role in enabling effective portfolio governance, financial stewardship, vendor oversight, and performance management across the Enterprise Solutions organization. This position offers the opportunity to work closely with IT leadership, business stakeholders, finance partners, project teams, and external vendors to ensure strategic investments are governed effectively, resources are optimized, and enterprise initiatives deliver measurable business value. This is an office-first role. Working together in person supports close, real-time collaboration and team alignment, enabling us to deliver our best work. You will work primarily in the office, with the flexibility to work remotely for 20% of your time (one day per week). What you will get An agile career and dynamic working culture. An inclusive and ethical workplace. Compensation programs that recognize high performance. Opportunities to contribute to global digital transformation and enterprise solutions initiatives. Exposure to strategic portfolio management, financial planning, governance, and executive decision-making processes. Professional growth through leadership of enterprise-wide governance, reporting, and operational excellence initiatives. Collaboration with global IT teams, business stakeholders, finance organizations, and technology partners. A variety of benefits dependent on role and location. The full list of our global benefits can be found here: https://www.lonza.com/careers/benefits . What you will do Establish and maintain governance processes for the collection, evaluation, prioritization, and management of the Enterprise Solutions portfolio. Drive transparency across the portfolio by tracking project status, milestones, risks, dependencies, resource utilization, and financial performance. Partner with Business Stakeholders, Project Managers, Functional Leads, and PMO teams to ensure portfolio alignment, data quality, and effective governance. Monitor strategic IT initiatives and transformation programs, providing leadership visibility through portfolio dashboards, governance reviews, and performance reporting. Identify portfolio risks, issues, and interdependencies and facilitate timely escalation and resolution. Lead financial planning activities for Enterprise Solutions, including budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and cost management. Manage and maintain budget tracking across projects, applications, operational expenditures, software licensing, contracts, and external services. Analyze financial performance and provide recommendations to improve transparency, optimize spending, and maximize business value. Partner closely with Finance, Controlling, Procurement, and IT Leadership to align budgets, forecasts, and actual expenditures. Track financial benefits and support value</span