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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.
As a newly independent company we are focused on growth. We see growth as the engine powering everything we want to achieve for patients. It will allow us to innovate & pioneer greater access to high-quality medicines, but we can only do this by bringing the best and the brightest minds together.
As a Lead Finance Business Partner Europe, you will be responsible for partnering with the Biosimilars, Generics and OTC business units, driving financial performance and supporting key business decisions. You will ensure alignment between financial objectives and business priorities, providing insights and recommendations to help achieve business goals.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Drive the execution of business and financial strategies for a defined scope (BU / Franchise / Region), ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.
- Act as a strategic advisor to senior stakeholders, influencing key business decisions through data-driven insights and financial expertise.
- Lead performance management and steering, including identifying risks and opportunities and driving corrective actions.
- Provide advanced financial analysis and insights across key areas such as sales trends, cost structures, profitability, investments, and resource allocation.
- Support leadership teams with strategic decision-making, including scenario analysis, long-term planning, and value optimization.
- Lead and challenge budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning processes from a business perspective, ensuring alignment to market realities and business priorities.
- Drive business case development, evaluation, and tracking (e.g., investments, capital allocation, NPV, lifecycle profitability).
- Conduct value-added analyses (e.g., profitability, benchmarking, cost optimization) to identify improvement areas and support long-term target setting.
- Foster strong cross-functional collaboration (Commercial, Supply Chain, FRA, etc.) to ensure integrated decision-making. Lead and develop a team of finance professionals, ensuring capability building, engagement, and high performance.
What you’ll bring to the role:
- 7–10 years of experience in finance, including business partnering, commercial finance, or strategic finance roles.
- Proven experience supporting senior leadership decision-making and strategy execution.
- Experience in people management and team leadership.
- Strong business partnering skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and provide strategic financial advice.
- Experience in scenario planning, investment evaluation, and supporting resource allocation decisions.
- Strong financial acumen, judgement, and understanding of governance processes.
- Advanced analytical skills, with the ability to translate data into business insights and recommendations.
- Demonstrated leadership capabilities, including coaching, change management, and working effectively in complex environments.
- Fluent in English. Additional languages are a plus.
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!
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.
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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, Financial And Management Reporting, Giving And Receiving Feedback, Insight Generation, Interpersonal Savvy, Managing Ambiguity, Market Understanding, Planning & Analysis, Pmi (Post-Merger Integration), Process Optimization, Rapid Problem Solving, Understanding Value DriversSkills Required
- 7-10 years of experience in finance, including business partnering, commercial finance, or strategic finance roles
- Experience supporting senior leadership decision-making and strategy execution
- Experience in people management and team leadership
- Strong business partnering skills and ability to influence senior stakeholders with strategic financial advice
- Experience in scenario planning, investment evaluation, and resource allocation decisions
- Strong financial acumen, judgment, and understanding of governance processes
- Advanced analytical skills with ability to translate data into business insights and recommendations
- Leadership capabilities including coaching, change management, and effectiveness in complex environments
- Fluent in English
- 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.
