Job Description Summary
The Senior Program Manager Operational Excellence & Digital supports the Procurement leadership team by leading cross-category and cross-functional programs that drive maximum productivity & Efficiency. Drives effective strategy and tactics and ensure professional communication and execution of procurement projects and activities globally. Effectively communicates, plans, reports Global procurement agenda to Leadership and Manages projects End to End.Job Description
Position Purpose:
The Senior Program Manager Operational Excellence & Digital supports the Procurement leadership team by leading cross-category and cross-functional programs that drive maximum productivity & Efficiency. Drives effective strategy and tactics and ensure professional communication and execution of procurement projects and activities globally. Effectively communicates, plans, reports Global procurement agenda to Leadership and Manages projects End to End.
Your Key Responsibilities:
Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:
- Creating Procurement vision based on insights into procurement leading practices and experience in strategy development. Linking Procurement strategy to overall Sandoz strategy and conveying it clearly to the organization.
- Mapping the value chain, analyzing it and deriving potential scenarios. Includes the understanding and application of total cost of ownership and cost modelling. Expertise in the respective category market levers, trends and main players as well as internal processes.
- Convert Strategies to Projects by defining clear category objectives, working with analytical data, business stakeholders and market expertise. Aligning strategies to measurable target and clearly conveying them to the organization.
- Compliance & risk management: supporting reports to determine appropriate compliance level. Monitoring end-to-end compliance (budget, payment, vendor PO, contract invoice, buying channel, etc.) and deriving corrective actions to improve compliance. Applying risk management processes including identifying and evaluating risks and defining and executing a risk mitigation plan.
- Ability to navigate procurement tools. Expertise in the procurement data structure and procurement classification system for material, services, and suppliers.
- Expertise in the procurement content (e.g. in contracts) and Procurement applications (e.g. e-catalogs, user portal). Continuous improvement of procurement content and automation.
- Participating in and / or leading financial discussions. Applying financial knowledge to participate actively, e.g. in budgeting process, including tax aspects in sourcing strategies and structuring sophisticated deals with ecosystem partners.
- Procurement KPIs (performance, price and demand development): excellent in navigating in Procurement KPIs related to market insights, price and demand development as well as procurement's performance.
- Project management & planning: planning, organizing and managing projects taking into account priorities, resources, budgets, issues and constraints to achieve desired results; defining clear project scope and objectives; utilizing software and tools to plan, track and report status.
- Relationship management and business partnering achieving results by proactively building long-term, sustainable and effective relationships, understanding the stakeholder landscape and demonstrating political astuteness across business structures and networks.
Key Performance Indicators
- Successful project execution by providing all external solutions in time / at the required quality / within budget as verified by the business.
- Successful and measurable execution on efficiency programs.
- Measurable and continuous process improvement & compliance assurance.
- Understanding the Procurement KPIs related to market insights, price and demand development as well as procurement's performance.
What you’ll bring to the role:
Essential Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience of working in a global environment in a similar position.
- Experience with Procurement Operations and Procurement function in general.
- Experience in supporting the compliance related processes. (SOX, internal controls)
- Experience in data analysis (MS Excel, Power BI, PowerPoint, MS Word, Qlik)
- Experience working in Procurement ERP tools (Ex. SAP)
- Understanding of Finance concepts like Budgeting, Financing, Savings etc.
- Understanding of Operational finance and reporting.
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
- 10+ years of experience working in a global environment in a similar position
- Experience with Procurement Operations and the Procurement function
- Experience supporting compliance-related processes, including SOX and internal controls
- Experience with data analysis using Microsoft Excel, Power BI, PowerPoint, Word, and Qlik
- Experience working with Procurement ERP tools, such as SAP
- Understanding of finance concepts including budgeting, financing, and savings
- Understanding of operational finance and reporting
- Effective communication skills
- Finance management experience
- Experience analyzing internal and external customer needs and satisfaction
- Resource management experience
- Negotiation skills
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.
