Senior Manager Business Operations Biosimilars (d/f/m)

Job Description Summary

The Senior Manager Business Operations Biosimilars acts as a trusted advisor and right hand to the Global Head of Biosimilars, ensuring seamless execution of critical priorities, effective governance, and operational excellence across the global biosimilars platform. This role provides high-level support in decision-making, ensure coordination of business priorities and stakeholder engagement, enabling the Global Head to focus on driving business growth and innovation.

Job Description

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!

Your Key Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Partner with the Global Head to define, track, and communicate critical business priorities and objectives.
• Prepare briefing materials, presentations, and reports for executive meetings, and external engagements.
• Conduct analysis and engage with key stakeholders to support decision-making and identify emerging trends in the biosimilars market.
• Coordinate annual and mid-term business planning processes, ensuring alignment across global functions and regions.
• Monitor progress against KPIs and business initiatives; prepare dashboards and performance summaries.
• Support governance forums (e.g., leadership team meetings, steering committees, townhalls) by managing agendas, minutes, and follow-ups.
• Represent the Global Head in selected meetings and forums when required.
• Drive cross-functional initiatives from concept to execution, ensuring timely delivery and stakeholder alignment.
• Act as a liaison between global leadership and regional teams to ensure smooth communication and execution.
• Optimize workflows, processes, and tools to enhance efficiency within the global biosimilars platform.
• Anticipate challenges and proactively propose solutions to ensure business continuity.

What you’ll bring to the role:

• Advanced degree in Life Sciences, Business Administration, or related field.
• 3+ years of consulting with focus on pharmaceutical/biotech industry, with exposure to biosimilars or generics preferred
• Proven track record in strategic planning, project management, and executive-level support
• Strong understanding of global healthcare and regulatory environments
• Exceptional organizational and prioritization skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to manage confidential information with discretion.
• High degree of adaptability and resilience in a fast-paced environment
• Fluent English skills

You’ll receive:

Sandoz has an employee-first approach and that’s why your personal growth is so important to us. You will have access to Coursera and other learning platforms with more than 200,000 learning videos and 5000+ courses.

In addition to the various learning opportunities, we offer company benefits, such as:

• 30 days of annual leave
• Holiday allowance
• Additional rewards for special occasions (e.g. service length awards, marriage celebration, etc.)
• Company pension schemes and capital formation benefits
• Parental leave
• Other offerings, such as bike leasing

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.

The law provides for severely disabled / equal applicants the opportunity to involve the local representative body for disabled employees (SBV) in the application process. If you would like to request this, please let us know in advance as a note on your CV.

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Skills Desired

Agility, Agility, Asset Management, Business Development, Business Strategy, Commercial Excellence, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Cross-Functional Team Leadership, Customer Orientation, Digital Marketing, Healthcare Sector Understanding, Influencing Skills, Inspirational Leadership, Joint Ventures, Key Account Management, Market Access, Marketing Strategy, Market Share, Market Trend, Medical Affairs, Negotiation Skills, People Management, Priority Disease Areas Expertise, Product Launches, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) {+ 3 more}