Job Description Summary
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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’ll shape the future of our global biosimilar pipeline. As Global Director Pipeline Biosimilar Platform, you’ll sit at the crossroads of science, commercial strategy, and investment decisions—helping determine which biosimilar assets we invest in, when, and at what scale.
You’ll work closely with commercial, R&D, regulatory, market access, manufacturing, and competitive intelligence teams to ensure our portfolio choices are scientifically sound, commercially attractive, and aligned with long‑term strategy. In a fast‑evolving biosimilar landscape with shorter lifecycles and shifting global dynamics, you’ll help keep us ahead of the curve and deliberate in where we place our bets.
Your Key Responsibilities:
Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:
Ensuring a Future‑Ready, Competitive Pipeline by:
- Shaping global biosimilar pipeline strategy, including molecule/platform selection and portfolio balancing.
- Building differentiated perspectives (thought-leadership) on emerging technologies, disease trends, and global market evolution.
Strengthening Analytical, Financial & Risk Discipline by:
- Driving rigorous forecasting, valuation, and scenario planning—incorporating development risk, commercial uncertainty, IP dynamics, and competitive threat modelling.
- Providing senior leadership with transparent, evidence‑based investment cases.
Accelerating Growth in a Complex & Dynamic Environment by:
- Navigating increasing scientific and commercial complexity driven by new therapeutic modalities and expanding target spaces.
- Ensuring adaptability to regulatory shifts, policy changes, and evolving standards of care—protecting investment decisions and maximizing the value of future launches.
- Guiding early commercial strategy, including competitive Target Product Profile development.
What you’ll bring to the role:
- A business and/or science background and degree is required. MD, science PhD, MBA or equivalent experience is desirable.
- Minimum 12 years pharma industry expertise required. Strong specialty care and biologics background (oncology, immunology, rare diseases).
- Ability to integrate scientific assessments, market trends, competitive threats, and evolving policy landscapes into clear strategic recommendations.
- Expertise in shaping future‑ready portfolios, including molecule/platform selection, portfolio balancing, and prioritization.
- Ability to project commercial potential, design competitive TPPs, and anticipate unmet needs or access barriers.
- Demonstrated expertise in portfolio strategy, forecasting, valuation, and risk assessment.
- Extensive commercial experience in global or major markets (e.g., Business Franchise Head, TA Lead, Director Strategy, Access).
- Experience leading cross functional teams and influencing senior decision making. Direct people leadership experience is strongly preferred.
- Strong communicator, capable of presenting complex decisions and recommendations to executive committees with clarity and conviction.
- Fluent English (written and spoken). Additional languages are beneficial
As part of your application, please submit your current CV as well as proof of your highest educational qualification (e.g., diploma, master’s degree, doctorate). Additional documents such as employment references may be uploaded optionally but are not mandatory.
You’ll receive:
Sandoz has an employee-first approach and that’s why your personal growth is so important to us. You will have access to Coursera and other learning platforms with more than 200,000 learning videos and 5000+ courses.
In addition to the various learning opportunities, we offer company benefits, such as:
- 30 days of annual leave
- Holiday allowance
- Additional rewards for special occasions (e.g. service length awards, marriage celebration, etc.)
- Company pension schemes and capital formation benefits
- Parental leave
- Other offerings, such as bike leasing
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.
Hiring decisions are only based on the qualification for the position, regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age and disability.
The law provides for severely disabled / equal applicants the opportunity to involve the local representative body for disabled employees (SBV) in the application process. If you would like to request this, please let us know in advance as a note on your CV.
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Skills Desired
Agility, Asset Management, Business Strategy, Commercial Excellence, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Customer Orientation, Digital Marketing, Healthcare Sector Understanding, Influencing Skills, Inspirational Leadership, Marketing Strategy, Negotiation Skills, Operational Excellence, People Management, Priority Disease Areas Expertise, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Product Marketing, Product Strategy, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Management, Strategic PartnershipsSkills Required
- MD, science PhD, MBA or equivalent experience
- Minimum 12 years pharma industry expertise
- Strong specialty care and biologics background
- Extensive commercial experience in global or major markets
- Direct people leadership experience
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.
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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.
