Head BPA

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

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

• Manage the execution of global strategies for own part of the organization and ensure timely implementation of BPA processes and policies.
• Deliver core management reporting and financial planning processes to ensure the effective and timely delivery of insightful, recurring or ad-hoc financial analysis
• Lead the detailed budget and financial forecasts processes to meet local and global planning requirements.
• Design and maintain early warning systems for financial tracking, and ensure delivery of all financial results.
• Proactively drive performance and carry out value-added analyses on financial data: Site costs, TPC, productivity savings, Management Cash Flow, Capital Investments, life time costs for projects, NPV etc.
• Support the organization's leadership team with financial analysis (including Risks & Opportunities analysis), cost analysis and drive corrective actions.
• Conduct value added analyses, e.g. Resource Allocation, Profitability analyses, Benchmarking to recommend short- and long-term targets and improvement areas.
• Lead the BPA team.
• Provide leadership in preparing business cases, participating and value adding in key negotiations for investments and programs/projects for the domain/sub domains

What You'll Bring To The Role

• Successfully completed degree in Business Administration with a focus on Controlling, Finance, or Accounting, or an equivalent qualification
• Minimum 5 years experience in Finance.
• Proven Leadership and Change Management Experience
• Experience as a business partner for financial topics
• Strong communicationskills
• Extensive experience with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, SAP, and SAP AnalysisFluent English and German skills

You'll Receive
Sandoz has an employee-first approach and that's why your personal growth is so important to us. You will have access to Coursera and other learning platforms with more than 200,000 learning videos and 5000+ courses.

In addition to the various learning opportunities, we offer company benefits, such as:

• 30 days of annual leave
• Holiday allowance
• Additional rewards for special occasions (e.g. service length awards, marriage celebration, etc.)
• Company pension schemes and capital formation benefits
• Parental leave
• Other offerings, such as bike leasing

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.

Hiring decisions are only based on the qualification for the position, regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age and disability.

The law provides for severely disabled / equal applicants the opportunity to involve the local representative body for disabled employees (SBV) in the application process. If you would like to request this, please let us know in advance as a note on your CV.