Costa Rica, San JoseToday, 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.
The **OTC Operational Excellence Specialist** is a result and data-driven professional with deep expertise and extensive experience preferably in the Order-to-Cash area and a strong continuous improvement background.
This position will focus on the End-to-End process across businesses and also to a large extent across geographies.
They will lead and drive broad change in systems and processes to improve process efficiency and effectiveness, enhancing the internal and external customer experience.
**Key responsibilities**:
- Act as a key member for global and high-impact strategic projects driven by the Global Process Owner organization.
- Influence and work across functions with the Sales organization on the End to End Order to Cash process through effective stakeholder management.
- Identify and support process re-engineering and continuous improvement initiatives in Cash Application and Credit & Collection processes in the respective Shared Service Centers as well as upstream processes where required.
- Analyze data and identify opportunities, create hypotheses, and once validated manage the change process to ensure they are deployed with mínimal disruption.
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement through best practice sharing and visible hands-on leadership.
- Ensure appropriate and relevant controls are applied with the OTC process stream, continuously monitor control requirements, and drive appropriate control gap resolution.
**Key requirements**:
- Advanced English level (spoken and written).
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- Lean Six Sigma (Yellow Belt).
Green Belt will be preferred.
- At least 2 years of Finance experience in a Shared Service Center environment.
OTC will be 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.
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 a disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
**Reference: R50412**: