Manager BPC

Job Description Summary

Sandoz is going through an exciting and transformative period as a global leader and pioneering provider of sustainable Biosimilar and Generic medicines.
Now as an independently listed company, Sandoz aims to increase its strategic focus, operate with greater agility, set clearer business objectives, enhance shareholder returns, and strengthen its culture for us, the Sandoz associates. This is an exciting time in our history, and by creating a new and ambitious path, it will provide a unique opportunity for us all, both professionally and personally.
Join us as a Founder of our ‘new’ Sandoz!
Position Purpose:
To support the business within a country with complex analysis, reporting, forecasts etc. (typically very large to large revenue) and may coordinate a team of specialists. To act as a Business Partner for BPA within a country, providing insightful and value-added analysis and decision support to the management team.

Job Description

Major accountabilities:

Identify key strategic topics and drive innovative solutions, automation of standard BPA (Business Planning and Analysis) processes. Actively contribute in BPC system integration to facilitate month end close of planning modules
• Ability to map country’s existing planning process in BPC, identify gaps if any and work towards streamlining the process. Lead change management and manage requests from customers
• Define standard methodologies in terms of planning process and reporting (analytics).Provide dedicated operational support, service quality, application optimization & maintenance to the OnePlanning (BPC) and Analytics. Lead improvements, Collaborate with Application Architect and business lead to investigate and define solutions that deliver business value
• Conduct online and classroom-training sessions, prepare and deliver effective presentations and run delivery of user documents. Manage deliverables and operational activities smoothly with high quality and within stipulated time and costs. Lead client conversation and manage key stakeholders.
• Liaise with customer groups and other IT functions to optimize user support. Ensure close collaboration with appropriate system owners and key stakeholders in business. Support and maintain multiple BPC applications for the Group BPA community
• Achieves operational objectives by contributing information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans. Develop team in supporting business users in day-to-day activities related to business planning
• Expertise in key concepts such as Currency Conversion, Work Status, Business Process Flow, Security mechanism, Member formulas, EPM functions in BPC etc.
• Should have good understanding of data flow (inbounds, internal and external BPC interfaces) and SAP concepts

What you’ll bring to the role:

• The person should have must have at least 2 full lifecycles implementation experience in implementing EPM technology, expertise in SAP BPC. Functional experience in Finance transformation projects and must have team-leading experience.

Why Sandoz?
Almost 500 million patients were touched by Sandoz generic and biosimilar medicines in 2022 and while we’re proud of this, we know there is more we could do to continue to help pioneer access to medicines for people around the world.
We are at a pivotal moment in our history giving us the freedom to invest in our future, so we can continue to help millions of people access affordable high-quality medicines. Together we will shape the future of Sandoz, building an organization from the ground up and in return, experience an aspiration environment with impact, flexible-hybrid careers, where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is encouraged!
The future is ours to shape!

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.

#Sandoz

Skills Desired

Ability To Influence Key Stakeholders, AI Driven, Compliance And Controls, Critical Thinking, Data Cleansing / Normalization, Data Visualization, Employee Engagement, Financial And Management, Giving And Receiving Feedback, Insight Generation, Interpersonal Savvy, Managing Ambiguity, Market Understanding, Planning & Analysis, Process Optimization, Rapid Problem Solving, Reporting, Understanding Value Drivers