Senior Director, People Development and Enablement

Today, Lonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across five 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.

At Lonza, we are looking for a Senior Director, People Development and Enablement to lead the development and execution of our global Learning & Enablement strategy, shaping how our people and leaders build the capabilities needed to support Lonza’s long-term success. This strategic leadership role will oversee a diverse portfolio spanning learning products, digital platforms, leadership development, employee engagement, and enterprise capability solutions.

Based in Hyderabad, you will partner with senior leaders and the global HR community to translate business and capability needs into scalable, innovative solutions. You will lead cross-functional and agile teams, drive the evolution of our digital learning ecosystem, and use employee insights and data to strengthen engagement, leadership effectiveness, and organizational capability across Lonza.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and evolve Lonza’s global Learning & Enablement strategy, frameworks, standards, and governance, ensuring alignment with business priorities and organizational capability needs.
• Lead the global portfolio of learning products and solutions, driving consistency, quality, scalability, adoption, and continuous improvement across the enterprise.
• Diagnose business challenges and capability gaps, translating complex requirements into practical, innovative, and reusable learning solutions, toolkits, playbooks, and frameworks.
• Shape the strategy and evolution of Lonza’s digital learning ecosystem, including Learn@Lonza, creating an engaging learner experience and driving sustainable adoption of digital learning solutions.
• Define and embed global leadership development frameworks and solutions that strengthen leadership capability and support Lonza’s culture and strategic priorities.
• Lead the global employee engagement survey strategy, enhancing insights and reporting while translating employee feedback into targeted actions that improve engagement, performance, retention, and the overall employee experience.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, HR Business Partners, and key stakeholders, providing expert consultation and building alignment around learning, leadership, engagement, and capability priorities.
• Lead cross-functional and agile teams to design and implement enterprise solutions, while bringing external trends, market insights, and innovative practices into Lonza’s People Development agenda.
• Establish meaningful metrics and analytics to measure effectiveness, learner engagement, adoption, business impact, and ROI, using insights to continuously improve solutions and services.
• Manage the learning and enablement ecosystem of external partners, consultants, and technology vendors, ensuring quality, value, innovation, and alignment with Lonza’s requirements.

Required qualifications:

• 10+ years of relevant experience in Learning & Development, leadership development, organizational capability, talent, employee engagement, or related People/HR disciplines.
• Deep expertise in developing and executing global learning, leadership development, and organizational capability strategies within complex, multinational organizations.
• Proven experience designing and managing enterprise learning products, programmes, frameworks, toolkits, and scalable capability-building solutions.
• Strong expertise in digital learning technologies, learning platforms, and learner experience, with demonstrated success driving adoption and sustainable use of digital solutions.
• Experience developing leadership capability frameworks and solutions that strengthen leadership effectiveness, organizational culture, and business performance.
• Proven experience leveraging employee engagement surveys, workforce insights, analytics, and employee feedback to inform decisions and drive targeted organizational interventions.
• Strong consulting and business partnering skills, with the ability to diagnose business needs, influence senior stakeholders, and translate requirements into pragmatic and scalable solutions.
• Demonstrated success leading global, cross-functional, and agile teams and driving change, innovation, and continuous improvement in complex matrix environments.
• Strong data orientation with experience measuring effectiveness, adoption, business impact, and ROI, combined with solid portfolio, vendor, and budget management capabilities.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Human Resources or a related discipline required. Business fluency in English is required; additional languages are an advantage.

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 disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.