Senior Manager Transformation and Growth Finance

Job Description Summary

Our Transformation & Growth team is hiring!

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.

The Senior Manager, Transformation and Growth Finance is a strategic finance leader responsible for supporting the company’s inorganic
and organic growth and transformation agenda. This role leads financial workstreams and support teams across M&A, Divestments,
Integration & Separation, and strategic initiatives. The ideal candidate will bring strong financial acumen, deal experience, and cross functional
collaboration skills to drive value creation and support executive decision-making. This position partners closely with senior
leadership to evaluate opportunities, manage complex transactions, and ensure successful execution of growth and transformation strategies.

Your responsibilities will include: 

• M&A and Divestment Finance Leadership: Lead financial evaluation and modeling for potential acquisitions, divestitures, partnerships, and other opportunities. Support due diligence, valuation, and deal structuring activities. Testing the various business cases for robustness.
• Integration & Separation Finance: Drive financial planning and execution for post-merger integration and business separations, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and value realization targets including post deal analysis.
• Strategic Finance Partnering: Collaborate with Strategy team to assess growth opportunities and support long-term strategic planning with robust financial analysis.
• Scenario Modeling & Business Case Development: Build and review complex financial models to assess investment opportunities, synergies, and risks. Develop business cases to support executive decision-making.
• Cross-functional Leadership: Partner with Legal, Tax, HR, Operations, and other functions to ensure financial considerations are embedded in all phases of transformation initiatives.
• Governance & Reporting: Ensure financial governance, risk management, and compliance across all transformation and growth initiatives. Prepare and present materials for senior leadership and board-level discussions.
• Market & Competitive Analysis: Provide financial insights on market trends, competitor activity, and industry benchmarks to inform strategic decisions.
• Evaluate risks or opportunities through financial analysis, providing recommendations to mitigate these risks, and flagging them in the thorough sensitivity analysis.
• Ensure compliance with the Management Authorization Limits and Capital Appropriation Request guidance and supporting the various teams in the corresponding alignment, presentations and approval processes.
• Required BPA activities around the finances of the Transformation and Growth function.
• Ad-hoc requests and support.

 What you need to bring to the role: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field; MBA, CFA, or equivalent advanced degree preferred.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in finance, investment banking, strategy consulting, or a similar role with exposure to M&A, BD&L, and transformation projects.
• Proven track record of leading financial workstreams in complex transactions and strategic initiatives.
• Strong financial modeling, valuation, and analytical skills with the ability to synthesize complex data into actionable insights.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience influencing senior executives.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment and manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Experience in life sciences, healthcare, or a similarly dynamic and regulated industry is a plus.
• Fluent English C1-C2 is mandatory. Other languages can be valuable.

Why Sandoz?

Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, touched the lives of almost 500 million patients last year and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!

With investments in new development capabilities, state-of-the-art 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 and entrepreneurial spirit 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 encouraged!

The future is (y)ours to shape!

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

Sandoz is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

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Skills Desired

Ability To Influence Key Stakeholders, Building Effective Teams, Capital Allocation, Compliance And Controls, Critical Thinking, Data Cleansing Normalization, Data Visualization, E2E Process View, Embracing Change, Financial Accounting, Financial And Management Reporting, Giving And Receiving Feedback, Interpersonal Savvy, Market Understanding, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), Pmi (Post-Merger Integration), Rapid Problem Solving, Resilience, Tax, Treasury, Understanding Value Drivers Planning & Analysis