Job Description Summary
The Sr. Procurement Manager Capability & Leadership Development is responsible for shaping the future capabilities of the global Procurement organization. The role owns the Procurement Capability Framework, leads the Advanced Procurement Academy, and drives talent, leadership, and capability development across the function.Job Description
Position Purpose:
The Sr. Procurement Manager Capability & Leadership Development is responsible for shaping the future capabilities of the global Procurement organization. The role owns the Procurement Capability Framework, leads the Advanced Procurement Academy, and drives talent, leadership, and capability development across the function.
Your Key Responsibilities:
Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:
1. Capability Strategy & Transformation
- Own and continuously evolve the global Procurement Capability Framework.
- Anticipate future capability requirements driven by business strategy, AI, digitalization, and evolving Procurement practices.
- Translate business priorities into capability roadmaps, development programs, and career pathways.
- Define capability standards and proficiency levels across Procurement.
2. Procurement Academy & Learning Ecosystem
· Lead the Sandoz Advanced Procurement Academy.
· Develop scalable learning journeys across strategic, commercial, digital, functional, and leadership capabilities.
· Build an integrated learning ecosystem combining training, coaching, mentoring, digital learning, and experiential development.
· Ensure alignment with broader Sandoz growth and development initiatives.
- Build and maintain a network of leading procurement organizations, academic institutions and industry peers to benchmark and incorporate leading capability and leadership development practices.
3. Talent & Leadership Development
- In close partnership with Procurement Leadership and P&O, shape and execute the Procurement talent, leadership, and capability agenda globally.
- Embed capabilities into recruitment, talent reviews, succession planning, career development, and performance management.
- Strengthen leadership readiness and succession pipelines for critical roles. Design and implement mentoring, coaching, and talent acceleration initiatives in partnership with Procurement Leadership and P&O.
- Future-Ready Culture & Capability
- Drive the development of future-ready Procurement capabilities and mindsets, including strategic thinking, commercial excellence, leadership, intellectual curiosity, digital and AI fluency, and business value creation.
- In partnership with Procurement Leadership, people managers, and P&O, strengthen a high-performance culture rooted in Sandoz values.
- Foster continuous learning, diverse thinking, constructive challenge, and external market orientation to accelerate innovation and impact.
5. Capability Measurement & Continuous Improvement
- Establish capability assessments and organizational capability metrics.
- Monitor capability gaps, learning effectiveness, and leadership readiness.
- Measure business impact and continuously adapt development priorities to evolving business needs.
What you’ll bring to the role:
Essential Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree preferred; MBA or equivalent advanced degree is a strong advantage. 5-8 years of relevant experience in Procurement, Consulting, Organizational Development, Talent Management, Learning, or Transformation. Procurement experience is an advantage.
- Strong business acumen and a broad understanding of how capability and leadership development support organizational performance and transformation.
- Proven track record in building global capability and leadership development programs.
- Strong understanding of Procurement and future capability trends.
- Experience operating in global, matrix organizations.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
- Demonstrated ability to lead change and drive adoption across large organizations.
Why Sandoz?
Sandoz is the global leader in Biosimilar and Generic medicines, a segment of the healthcare industry that delivers 80% of the world’s medicines at 30% of the cost, touching the lives of more than 1 billion people across 100+ countries! While we are proud of our achievements, we have an ambition to do more, so that everyone can achieve the basic human right of access to good healthcare.
With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help even more people 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 careers, where diversity of thought is welcomed and where personal growth is supported!
Join us, help us make healthcare fairer and faster.
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
Effective Communication, Finance Management, Internal And External Customer Needs Analysis & Satisfaction Studies, Managing Resources, NegotiatingSkills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- MBA or equivalent advanced degree
- 5-8 years of relevant experience in Procurement, Consulting, Organizational Development, Talent Management, Learning, or Transformation
- Procurement experience
- Strong business acumen and understanding of capability and leadership development's role in organizational performance and transformation
- Proven track record building global capability and leadership development programs
- Strong understanding of Procurement and future capability trends
- Experience operating in global, matrix organizations
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills
- Demonstrated ability to lead change and drive adoption across large organizations
Sandoz Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sandoz and has not been reviewed or approved by Sandoz.
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Healthcare Strength — Health, dental, vision, and prescription coverage are consistently described as core components across U.S. roles and materials. Feedback suggests the medical offering is broad and a standard pillar of the package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan with a company match described as generous is commonly included for U.S. roles. This savings support is positioned alongside other primary benefits as part of total rewards.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity eligibility is noted for many positions and a global all‑employee share program is being introduced from 2026. These elements add upside beyond base salary and annual bonus.
Sandoz Insights
What We Do
Sandoz is the global leader in generic and biosimilar medicines. Our Purpose is to pioneer access to medicines for patients globally. We are on a mission to drive innovation in the healthcare industry by freeing up resources sustainably and responsibly while continuing to address global health challenges such as antimicrobial resistance. We are present in more than 100 countries and our medicines serve some 500 million people every year. We have two main global businesses: Generics - divided between standard generics and complex generics - and Biosimilars.
