Job Description Summary
Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) platform and related platform components, ensuring they effectively meet evolving business needs, perform optimally, and are regularly improved to support strategic objectives and innovation.Job Description
Through STEP (Sandoz Transformation Enterprise Program), we are creating a unified, integrated digital core and simplifying our end-to-end ways of working. From SAP S/4HANA to Veeva, Workday, LabVantage, and beyond, you’ll help design and deliver future-ready systems that drive global impact — enabling us to deliver affordable medicines to more patients worldwide.
Job Summary
Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) platform and related platform components, ensuring they effectively meet evolving business needs, perform optimally, and are regularly improved to support strategic objectives and innovation.
Your Key Responsibilities
Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Act as the central point of contact for all SAP BDC functionality, ensuring continuous alignment with business strategies and process requirements.
- Manage the entire lifecycle of the SAP BDC system, overseeing scheduled upgrades, patch management, and version control through SAP's Software Update Manager (SUM) or similar tools.
- Partner with other IT teams working on BDC components like Datasphere or SAC to translate requirements into SAP BDC configurations
- Identify and implement SAP Data Products, Insight apps or enhancements to improve user experience and increase productivity, ensuring the BDC platform supports emerging business needs.
- Define and oversee platform solution architecture standards and development guidelines and perform implementation reviews to ensure adherence to best practices.
- Analyze technical as well as data requirements and translate them into functional specifications for implementation in close alignment with enterprise archtecture standards
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless business solution implementations and integrations with other platforms (e.g., Databricks), ensuring that SAP BDC acts as the central hub for reporting & analytics on SAP data.
- Analyze technical as well as data requirements and translate them into functional specifications for implementation of custom data products
- Manage relationships with SAP and third-party service providers, ensuring that SAP BDC service levels and support or customizations meet technical, business and compliance requirements
- Coordinate with SAP for procurement decisions related to credit consumption, additional licenses, modules, or software that enhance the capabilities of the existing SAP BDC landscape
- Ensure proper change & release management processes on the platform to control deployments Effective user training is in place to provide on-demand learning and support.
- Engage and manage stakeholders, fostering collaboration and alignment.
- Ensure SAP BDC meets the organization’s security requirements, including securing user roles and access control using SAP Identity Management (IdM) or SAP GRC.
- Collaborate with internal and external auditors to support compliance audits, leveraging SAP's audit logging capabilities and tracking of system changes to ensure data integrity
Minimum Requirements
What you’ll bring to the role:
- Strong understanding of SAP related data management and governance principles
- Extensive knowledge of SAP technologies (BDC, SAC, BTP, BW) with a proven track record of successful implementation and integration in the data analytics area
- Understanding of main Technology feature supporting data management and analytic
- Technical leadership role model for delivering of POVs/POCs and to oversee the development of data platform features
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with diverse teams.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills to address complex data challenges.
- Ability to align SAP BDC data solutions with business objectives and deliver measurable value
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology Business Administration, or related business field; (Master’s degree is preferred)
Languages:
English
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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Skills Desired
Budget Management, Business Acumen, Performance Management, Planning, Risk Management, Service Delivery Management, Stakeholder Management, Waterfall Project ManagementSkills Required
- Strong understanding of SAP data management and governance principles
- Extensive knowledge and proven implementation experience with SAP BDC, SAC, BTP, and BW
- Experience managing platform lifecycle activities including upgrades, patch management, and SUM
- Experience integrating SAP BDC with analytics platforms (e.g., Databricks, Datasphere) and reporting hubs
- Technical leadership experience delivering POVs/POCs and overseeing development of data platform features
- Experience defining solution architecture standards and conducting implementation reviews
- Experience securing SAP platforms using SAP IdM or SAP GRC and managing user roles/access controls
- Experience supporting audits and compliance using SAP audit logging and system change tracking
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and collaboration skills
- Analytical and problem-solving skills to address complex data challenges
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related
- Master's degree
- Budget management, performance management, planning, risk management, service delivery management
- Experience with Waterfall project management and vendor/third-party relationship management
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.
