Executive Scout

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Job Description:

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!

In this role you will act as the strategic leader of Executive Scouting at Sandoz, driving the identification, engagement, and acquisition of world-class senior leadership talent to enable business growth, transformation, and long-term competitiveness. Ensure robust executive pipelines across all business-critical functions and geographies, partnering closely with the senior leadership team.

Major Accountabilities

• Full accountability for shaping and executing the Executive Scouting strategy, ensuring proactive identification of senior external talent aligned with Sandoz’s long-term strategic workforce needs.
• Build and maintain a global external leadership pipeline, focusing on C-suite, and other critical leadership roles across business units, development, operations, manufacturing, and enabling functions.
• Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders, providing market intelligence, competitive benchmarking, and succession insights to inform business and talent decisions.
• Partner with the SLT and business leaders to define future leadership capabilities and proactively scout diverse, high-caliber candidates globally.
• Represent Sandoz externally as a thought leader in executive talent, building strong networks with senior executives, search firms, and industry leaders to position Sandoz as an employer of choice.
• Drive governance and transparency in succession planning, providing the senior stakeholders with clear visibility into external talent pipelines and readiness.
• Leverage digital platforms, market mapping, and data analytics to track talent pools, improve efficiency, and provide actionable insights.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition CoE, HRBPs, and leadership development teams to ensure seamless alignment between internal succession and external pipelines.

Key Performance Indicators

• Robust, diverse, and sustainable external pipelines built for all C-suite and business-critical roles.
• Timely delivery of shortlists of external talent for succession discussions
• Measurable increase in external-to-internal talent conversion for key leadership roles.
• Quality of hire metrics at senior levels (impact, retention, performance).
• Clear governance and reporting on external pipelines

Ideal Background

• Languages: English fluent; additional languages preferred
  • Extensive experience executive talent acquisition, or senior HR roles in global organizations.
  • Proven track record of building executive pipelines and delivering senior hires in complex, multinational contexts.
  • Deep understanding of global talent markets, leadership assessment, and succession planning.
  • Experience advising senior executives, Boards, or CEOs on leadership and succession.
  • Strong knowledge of pharma industry preferred; experience across multiple industries a plus.
  • Demonstrated leadership in managing teams and building global networks.
  • High cultural awareness and ability to operate effectively across regions and cultures.
  • Exceptional communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.

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.

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