Team Leader - Business Analytics

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!
Lead the Data & Products team responsible for building trusted data pipelines, semantic models, and executive-ready analytics products that enable decision-making across Global Commercial Operations. This role owns the end-to-end product vision and roadmap, drives adoption, and ensures measurable value delivery from data and analytics solutions.

Job Description

Your Key Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

Data & Analytics Strategy

• Develop and implement enhancements aligned with Global Commercial Operations strategic objectives and the enterprise data strategy.

• Define and manage data & analytics roadmap; prioritize dashboards, semantic models, and data products based on business impact.

• Set and track Objectives and KPIs (e.g., turnaround-time reduction, savings enablement, user adoption) to demonstrate value delivery.

Data Engineering & Integration

• Design and manage robust data pipelines across Databricks, internal / external data sources; integrate with visualization/reporting tools.

• Hands-on coding in SQL and Python for data modelling, cleansing, and transformations; establish reusable components.

• Implement rigorous data quality, governance, lineage, and audit controls to ensure trusted, compliant data.

Visualization & Storytelling

• Deliver executive-ready dashboards and insights using Power BI or Qlik Sense, focused on decision enablement.

• Establish visualization standards and core KPIs to drive consistent performance tracking across markets and brands.

• Translate complex analyses into clear, compelling narratives for senior stakeholders.

Advanced Analytics & GenAI

• Apply GenAI tools in commercial analytics use cases; accelerate insight generation and self-service.

• Build predictive and prescriptive models for LOE opportunities, forecasting, and portfolio performance tracking.

Digital Product Ownership

• Own product vision, OKRs, and roadmap aligned to Global Commercial Operations and enterprise data strategy.

• Maintain a single, prioritized backlog spanning pipelines, semantic models, and dashboards; drive discovery and define success metrics.

• Treat data as a product; govern releases via feature flags, controlled changes, release notes, and user training.

Stakeholder Engagement & Change Management

• Act as a liaison between business and technical stakeholders; translate requirements into scalable data solutions.

• Lead training, adoption, and enablement for self-service analytics capabilities across markets and functions.

Team Leadership

• Lead a team of ~10–15 data engineers, analysts, and BI developers; provide coaching and career development.

• Promote best practices in engineering excellence, visualization quality, governance, and agile ways of working.

What you'll bring to the role:

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or related field.

• 10+ years in data/analytics roles with 4+ years managing teams delivering data products and BI solutions.

• Hands-on expertise with Databricks, SQL, Python, Alteryx; proficiency with Power BI and/or Qlik Sense.

• Exposure to GenAI/ML platforms and practical application in Pharma Commercial Analytics.

• Strong understanding of pharma commercial datasets (e.g., sales, claims, affiliations, etc.) and associated use cases.

• Well-versed in advanced analytics techniques (forecasting, segmentation, optimization, experimentation).

Soft Skills

• Adept at training and driving adoption of analytics and digital tools.

• Ability to simplify complex analytics for diverse stakeholder groups and senior leadership.

• Design mindset for scalable, future-proof data solutions; structured problem-solving approach.

• Strong cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder management, and communication skills.

• Comfort operating in dynamic environments with shifting priorities and ambiguity.

You'll receive:

Breakdown of benefits received in this role. Include flexible working, learning and development opportunities as well.

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 ours to shape!

#Sandoz

Skills Desired

Agility, Analytical Thinking, Brand Awareness, Building Construction, Business Analytics, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Digital Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Media Campaigns, Sales, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Marketing, Waterfall Project Management