Senior Manager Corporate Strategy (m/f/d)

Job Description Summary

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!

Job Description

Your Key Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Develop and drive cross-functional corporate strategy projects aiming to steer and shape Sandoz mid- and long-term growth and success, including:

  • Overall Corporate or Business Unit Strategy shaping and refinement

  • High-profile M&A and Business Development

  • Creation and definition of growth and efficiency opportunities incl. business case development

  • Business, product, and project assessments

  • Market and competitive analysis

• Depending on project size, either lead the project together with the Head of Corporate Strategy Team or lead key workstreams autonomously, ensuring alignment with project objectives. Key activities include:

  • Analyzing ambiguous problems, developing structured approaches, and implementing effective solutions

  • Extracting meaningful insights and actionable recommendations from complex data

  • Managing cross-functional (senior) stakeholders and owning overall project (workstream) governance and charter

  • Communicating effectively and with precisions with all audiences, including Sandoz Leadership Team, to ensure message resonate

• Continuously identify improvement possibilities and contribute to their implementation fostering your own entrepreneurship within Sandoz

• Support on ad-hoc challenges and sprints to accelerate operative business decisions

• Create key strategy documents and memos to facilitate, for example, the yearly Strategy Cycle with Sandoz Board of Directors

What you’ll bring to the role:

Essential Requirements:

• 3 years+ of experience in Top Tier Consulting firms (such as McKinsey, BCG, Bain) with relevant project experience

• Preferably full specialization into life sciences, healthcare, pharmaceuticals or generics throughout professional career

• Familiarity with finance and financial business planning, decision making, as well as reporting

• Ability to lead smaller projects and drive independent workstreams in the context of a broader, cross-functional team

• Demonstrated ability to synthesize information to develop recommendations and persuade / influence organization of recommended path

• Excellent analytical skills (problem structuring and problem solving) allowing to handle complex data incl. financial modelling

• Leadership/Project experience in matrix organization to manage without authority

• Excellent executive communication and presentation skills

• Agility in shifting between various projects and to be accountable for individual & team

• Comfort with high-paced environment and ambiguous, often-changing challenges

• Proven self-starter with high standards of excellence and an innovative mind

• Proficiency with MS Office (esp. PowerPoint, Excel), statistical programming/analytics/visualization (e.g., Tableau, SQL, Python)

• Languages: English is a must, ideally also German

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.

Skills Desired

Building Construction, Business Development, Business Networking, Business Partners, Business Strategy, Collaboration, Corporate Development, Curiosity, Decision Tree (Forecasting Model), Diversity & Inclusion, Finance, Go-To-Market Strategy, Influencing Skills, Key Account Management, Leadership, Lean Six Sigma, Management Consulting, Pmp (Project Management Professional), Strategic Planning, Transformation Programs