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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 Head Finance Generic Platform is the financial leader driving value creation across the Standard and Specialty Generics value chain. The role will pro-actively drive optimal resource allocation, prioritising investments with key focus on oral solids, injectables and respiratory across internal development, BD&L and life cycle mgt. Coordinates together with STO, Regions and Countries short-, medium- and long-term projections and designs and implement improvement measures supporting a margin expansion roadmap.
This role has the responsibility to support decision making of pipeline choices ensuring financial alignment with companies’ expectations, as well, as facilitating successful pre and launch activities. Success requires financial leadership, advanced financial modelling, and deep analytical insight into portfolio, pipeline, and market dynamics, while ensuring strong collaboration and alignment with commercial regions and manufacturing priorities.
Your Key Responsibilities:
Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Strategic and Business initiatives
Co-creates overall Generics strategy and ad-hoc activities to deliver competitive, sustainable growth for Sandoz. Decision member in related Standard and Specialty Generics decision/operating bodies in relation to strategy, portfolio, pipeline, LCM and BD&L.
- Business Case Excellence and Investment Choices
Develops and delivers business cases: maximizing ROI for selection of new molecule additions, BD&L investment decisions and monitoring of existing portfolio and making recommendation decisions on investment choices.
Partners with CCO, Development, and Manufacturing leadership to drive comprehensive, end-to-end business cases securing approvals under governance frameworks.
- BD&L
Finance Business Partner in the BD&L investment choices. Ensure compliance with financial commitments of existing partnerships and leads term improvements ensuring profitability levels.
- S&OP
Provides transparency of financial implications of the 3 year regional demand planning (APO). Drives optimal/ lean resource allocation across Commercial Regions to maximize sales and profit to the Commercial Heads and CFO. Ensuring best possible leverage of available capacity, optimal country volume allocation.
- Margin expansion
In cooperation with STO develops & implements short/midterm identifies and implements measures to improve COGS. Reviews and proposes cost roadmap improvement to ensures profitably level in the commercial units.
- Launches
Financial pre-launch reviews to assess target product profile planning, COGS position, supply & forecast scenarios including supporting global decision on country launches and global view of launch forecasts.
- Planning and Reporting
Leads the Generics financial performance monitoring (Monthly Reporting, Last Estimates) as well as supporting high level target setting process (Budget & Strat. Plan). Assesses financial implications of the pipeline value.
Co-leads the medium- and long-term volume and value projections in alignment with Regions, countries and STO.
- Business Partnering
Acts as a trusted Generics finance partner to STO, CCO, Development, Global Finance, and Regional leadership—ensuring cross-functional alignment and enabling high-quality, integrated decision-making at the enterprise level. Acts as platform generics business partner for the Finance Team.
- Leadership and Talent Development
Attracts, develops, and retains finance talent.
- Governance, Compliance, and Control
Ensures rigorous financial processes, strong internal controls, and full compliance with audit requirements, maintaining the highest standards of governance and transparency.
What you’ll bring to the role:
Essential and Desirable Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration or other relevant field of a leading business school or top university (MBA or CPA a plus).
- 10+ years of experience in financial management or controlling in a multinational environment (branded pharma, generics or fast-moving consumer goods industry preferred).
- Fluent English, both written and spoken. Other languages are a plus.
- Financial experience in a local organization, cross functional and international preferred.
- Experience in financial modelling and business case preparation.
- Leadership skills, optimal in matrix organization.
- Previous commercial and/or manufacturing business partnering experience, knowledgeable on portfolio.
Why Sandoz?
Sandoz is the global leader in Biosimilar and Generic medicines, a segment of the healthcare industry that delivers 80% of the world’s medicines at 30% of the cost, touching the lives of more than 1 billion people across 100+ countries! While we are proud of our achievements, we have an ambition to do more so that everyone can achieve the basic human right of good health.
With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help even more people 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 careers, where diversity of thought is welcomed and where personal growth is supported!
Join us, help us make healthcare fairer and faster.
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.
Accessibility and accommodation
Sandoz is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, please send an e-mail to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.
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Skills Desired
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, or another relevant field from a leading business school or top university
- 10+ years of experience in financial management or controlling in a multinational environment
- Fluent English, written and spoken
- Financial experience in a local organization and cross-functional, international environments
- Experience in financial modeling and business case preparation
- Leadership skills, preferably in a matrix organization
- Previous commercial and/or manufacturing business partnering experience with portfolio knowledge
- MBA or CPA
- Experience in branded pharma, generics, or fast-moving consumer goods
- Additional languages
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.
