Global Manager IBP Finance

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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!

The Global IBP Finance Manager is a senior finance leadership role with enterprise-wide reach, responsible for shaping and advancing the financial dimension of Integrated Business Planning (IBP) across the global organization. The role supports a complex, multi-market business and provides financial leadership across the end-to-end planning cycle, connecting demand, supply, inventory, and capacity decisions with revenue, gross margin, cost, cash flow, and working capital outcomes. Acting as a strategic partner to Head of IBP, the role combines direct ownership of the IBP finance framework, standards, and financial integration of the planning cycle with strong influence across cross-functional decision-making forums. It plays a central role in IBP and S&OP governance, providing financial insight, challenge, and recommendations to senior stakeholders, while serving as a key driver of IBP finance standardization, process evolution, and continuous improvement across the enterprise.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Act as a transformation leader for IBP finance, driving standardization, simplification, and evolution of processes, governance, and ways of working to build a scalable and future-ready planning model.
• Own the financial integration of the global IBP cycle, ensuring consistent alignment between operational plans, financial forecasts, and strategic objectives across markets and business units.
• Own the finance standards, methodologies, and performance measures that underpin IBP, ensuring consistent definitions, governance, and application across the planning process.
• Partner with digital and systems teams to enhance planning processes, reporting, dashboards, and analytics capabilities, including effective use of SAP APO / SAP IBP, Qlik / Power BI, and FP&A tools.
• Represent Finance in executive IBP and S&OP governance forums, with accountability to provide financial insight, constructive challenges and recommendations that strengthen transparency, decision quality, and follow-through.
• Translate demand, supply, inventory, and capacity plans into revenue, gross margin, cost, cash flow, and working capital implications to support high-quality decision-making.
• Lead scenario planning and what-if analysis to evaluate risks, opportunities, and value trade-offs, providing clear recommendations to senior leadership.
• Support monthly and quarterly forecasting processes by reconciling operational assumptions with the financial outlook and ensuring timely escalation of risks and opportunities.
• Develop and standardize KPIs and performance insights across forecast accuracy, inventory, service, profitability, and cash to strengthen business steering and reinforce accountability.
• Identify gaps to budget, forecast, and strategic plans, and drive cross-functional actions to close performance gaps and improve plan quality.

What you need to bring to the role:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field; MBA or professional finance qualification preferred.
• Extensive experience in FP&A, supply chain finance, business partnering, or Integrated Business Planning roles within a complex, global environment.
• Strong track record of influencing senior stakeholders and operating effectively in cross-functional, matrixed organizations.
• Deep understanding of financial planning, forecasting, performance management, and the linkage between operational and financial planning processes.
• Proven experience in IBP, S&OP, or comparable end-to-end planning environments, with strong knowledge of demand, supply, inventory, and capacity drivers.
• Demonstrated capability in scenario modelling, business case development, value-based decision support, and executive-level communication.
• Hands-on experience and strong knowledge of ERP and finance planning systems; familiarity with SAP, Power BI, and modern FP&A platforms is highly desirable.
• Advanced Excel, analytics, and data visualization capabilities, with the ability to translate data into actionable business insight.
• Experience leading or supporting process improvement and transformation initiatives across finance and planning processes.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the confidence to challenge, influence, and align senior non-financial stakeholders.

What You'll Receive
Sandoz compensation is determined by job level, qualifications, niche skills, experience, and location within company salary ranges. Fully proficient and highly effective employees can expect a starting salary around market median, with those new to the level or with less functional depth at the lower end of the range and those with sustained superior or niche skills towards the higher end of the range. Internal equity and external market data inform our range placement. Annual salary reviews consider performance outcomes, market alignment, and business needs.
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!
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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.
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Skills Desired

Ability To Influence Key Stakeholders, AI Driven, Building Effective Teams, Capital Allocation, Critical Thinking, Data Cleansing / Normalization, Data Visualization, Effective Communications, Embracing Change, Employee Engagement, Financial And Management, Insight Generation, Managing Ambiguity, Market Understanding, Planning & Analysis, Process Optimization, Rapid Problem Solving, Reporting, Understanding Value Drivers