Job Description Summary
Sandoz continues to go through an exciting and transformative period as a global leader and pioneering provider of sustainable Biosimilar and Generic medicines. As we continue down this new and ambitious path, unique opportunities will present themselves, both professionally and personally. Join us, the future is ours to shape!The Associate Director FP&A, provides end-to-end financial leadership across the Generics value chain, serving as the trusted finance business partner for portfolio management, BD&L initiatives, and strategic projects. The role drives value creation through insightful financial analysis, robust business partnering, and data-driven decision support, requiring strong financial modeling, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills. The scope will focus on Gx, but will provide business analytics across all global commercial platforms.
Job Description
Key ResponsibilitiesLong-Term Strategy & Portfolio Finance
Drive long-term portfolio value by supporting strategy development, business case analytics, and platform-level planning. Lead financial assessments across the pipeline lifecycle, contributing to asset selection, ROI optimization, GPC decision-making, and commercialization reviews to support informed investment and portfolio prioritization decisions.
Business Cases structures & valuation:
Drive the financial assessment and execution of BD&L opportunities by leading valuation, due diligence, deal structuring, and scenario-based financial modeling. Provide data-driven insights and risk analyses that inform negotiations, optimize deal terms, and support sound investment decisions.
Planning and Reporting
Lead Generics Platform performance management, planning, and reporting processes, providing financial insights and recommendations through analysis of business performance across regions, segments, molecules, products, and markets.
Lead financial performance management of BD&L activities through robust planning, tracking, KPI development, and reporting. Leverage analytics and lessons learned to improve investment effectiveness, strengthen financial assessments, and drive continuous value creation across the Generics Platform.
S&OP, Supply and Demand Finance
Supports platform commercial and supply chain functions on short/mid-term and long-term financial implications of the 3 year regional demand planning (APO). Support APO analysis versus various scenarios, including APO dollarization dashboards. Provides financial support for LTDCP activities
Business Partnering
Provide platform-level analytics to support decision-making and cross-functional alignment with End 2 End perspective. Provide in-depth knowledge of the business and work cross functional with all needed stakeholders: financial (e.g. tax, treasury, accounting, funds flow, ESO, STO, SGD, etc.) and business (e.g. BD&L, Platformer, wider CCO, STO, Regions, etc.)
Governance, Compliance, and Control
Ensure strong financial governance, full compliance and adherence to internal controls and audit requirements.
Key Performance Indicators/Measures of Success
· Drive BU target net sales, maximize EV
· Increasing GX Pipeline Value, decisions on right assets
· High quality business cases, strong BD stakeholder fedback
· Reporting accuracy, consistency and compliance
Job dimension
Financial responsibility: Scope supporting AI Platform Net Sales, increasing Sandoz Pipeline
Impact on the organization: Strategic impact on defined Region’s financial performance. Incremental pipeline
Ideal Background
Education:
University degree in Finance, Business Administration or other relevant field MBA/CPA preferred
Fluent in English (oral and written), additional languages are a plus
Languages:
English
Experience and Skills:
+10 to12 years’ experience in financial management or controlling in a multinational environment (branded pharma, generics or fast-moving consumer goods industry preferred)
Expertise in financial modelling, deal structuring, and strategic analysis
Strong business acumen and familiarity with R&D and commercial models
Financial experience in a local organization, cross functional and international preferred.
Leadership skills, optimal in matrix organization
Why Sandoz?
Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, provided more than 900 million patient treatments across 100+ countries in 2024 and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!
With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help more patients gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.
Our momentum is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful, flexible-hybrid careers, where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is supported!
Join us!
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.
Skills Desired
Ability To Influence Key Stakeholders, AI Driven, Building Effective Teams, Capital Allocation, Critical Thinking, Data Cleansing / Normalization, Data Visualization, Financial And Management Reporting, Giving And Receiving Feedback, Insight Generation, Interpersonal Savvy, Managing Ambiguity, Market Understanding, Planning & Analysis, Pmi (Post-Merger Integration), Process Optimization, Rapid Problem Solving, Understanding Value DriversSkills Required
- University degree in Finance, Business Administration, or a relevant field
- Fluent English, oral and written
- 10–12 years of experience in financial management or controlling in a multinational environment
- Expertise in financial modeling, deal structuring, and strategic analysis
- Strong business acumen and familiarity with R&D and commercial models
- Leadership skills and ability to operate effectively in a matrix organization
- Experience in branded pharmaceuticals, generics, or fast-moving consumer goods
- MBA or CPA
- Experience in local organizations and cross-functional, international environments
- Additional language proficiency
Sandoz Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sandoz and has not been reviewed or approved by Sandoz.
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Healthcare Strength — Health, dental, vision, and prescription coverage are consistently described as core components across U.S. roles and materials. Feedback suggests the medical offering is broad and a standard pillar of the package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan with a company match described as generous is commonly included for U.S. roles. This savings support is positioned alongside other primary benefits as part of total rewards.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity eligibility is noted for many positions and a global all‑employee share program is being introduced from 2026. These elements add upside beyond base salary and annual bonus.
Sandoz Insights
What We Do
Sandoz is the global leader in generic and biosimilar medicines. Our Purpose is to pioneer access to medicines for patients globally. We are on a mission to drive innovation in the healthcare industry by freeing up resources sustainably and responsibly while continuing to address global health challenges such as antimicrobial resistance. We are present in more than 100 countries and our medicines serve some 500 million people every year. We have two main global businesses: Generics - divided between standard generics and complex generics - and Biosimilars.
