Senior Manager P&O Strategy & Portfolio

Job Description Summary

-To manage the P&O function within a complex organization (non-strategic TechOps site, Global Function or similar) or multi-country organization. To be responsible for implementing a broad range of P&O activities for the supported customer group.Typically leads the P&O function in a small revenue organization with > 100 employees or experienced senior P&O BP responsible for a complex client group within a global unit / region/ very large country

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!
 

Position Purpose:

Drive the effective execution of the P&O Communication and Enablement strategy, ensuring that the CPO’s voice, priorities, and strategic direction are clearly articulated, consistently positioned, and fully aligned with the Sandoz strategy. Lead the governance and lifecycle management of the P&O initiative portfolio, ensuring strategic alignment, robust prioritization, disciplined execution, and full coherence with P&O budgets and enterprise financial targets. Create sustainable value by shaping and orchestrating an ambitious and credible ESG agenda, embedding ESG into P&O and enterprise strategies, and ensuring compliance with evolving global ESG reporting requirements (e.g., CSRD, SEC).

Build and nurture strong stakeholder relationships, enabling cross-functional collaboration, accelerating decision-making, and providing guidance through complex, ambiguous, and matrixed environments to ensure impactful delivery across the P&O and ESG portfolio. 

Your Key Responsibilities:
Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

P&O Enablement

• Support Head P&O Portfolio & Strategic Assistant to CPO on critical P&O meeting preparation, follow up of key actions  
• Partner with Communication team to develop CPO internal and external communications. Ensure CPO’s voice and priorities landed clearly. keep positioning consistent, impactful and align with Sandoz strategy
• Manage quarterly P&O newsletter including design, article consolidation and stakeholder guidance
• Lead the monthly Country Coordination Call and annual P&O summits
• Overall People & Culture Hub maintenance, training for CoE page owners
• Manage Travel and Hiring controls to ensure effective levers are implemented to keep cost within budgets. Develop regular reporting mechanisms.            

Portfolio and Governance

• Oversee the P&O project and initiative portfolio, ensuring strategic alignment and application of best practices in portfolio management.
• Review initiatives for risk, impact, and alignment, maintaining clear and consistent communication with stakeholders and leadership.
• Ensure governance structures are in place and adhered to, enabling transparency and informed decision-making.
• Ensure alignment with the annual P&O budget and financial targets.

ESG Strategy and Integration

• Lead the orchestration of all ESG-related aspects, including internal and external reporting requirements and the creation of a 5-year ESG roadmap.
• Ensure compliance with evolving ESG standards (e.g., CSRD, SEC) and proactively prepare for future reporting needs.
• Collaborate with Centers of Excellence (CoEs) to embed ESG elements into their strategies and project agendas.
• Partner with the central Transformation Office to align and support the broader ESG agenda.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Actively engage with internal stakeholders to ensure initiatives meet business needs and deliver sustainable value.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and thought partner to senior leaders on strategic P&O and ESG matters

What you’ll bring to the role:
Essential Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree is required. Master’s degree in business discipline/ MBA is preferred
• Industry certification in Project Management is preferred, Certification in ESG Reporting preferred
• 10+ years of work experience in the field of human resources/ program management which includes strong project management / managing multiple senior stakeholders across various functions & geographies
• Management Consulting experience is desirable
• Proven experience in leading people and organization programs/ initiatives at scale. Demonstrated business acumen, strategic thinking, analytical and organizational skills. Track record of building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across a highly matrixed organization and consulting skills
• Highly organized, capable of multi-tasking, prioritizing competing requests / projects.

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.

Skills Desired

Knowledge Of All Relevant Policies And Practices, Knowledge Of The Hr Strategy, Organization Change, P&O Data Analytics, Performance Management