Senior Manager Strategy– Chief Commercial Office

Job Description Summary

As Senior Manager CCO Strategy, you'll be operating at the very core of Sandoz business strategy, helping shape business-critical decisions on pipeline selection, portfolio management, strategic partnerships and M&A. You will lead high-impact, high-complexity initiatives across various business areas, platforms and regions, building strategic scenarios, facilitating key decision-making and enhancing the effectiveness of the CCO office.

This role will be part of the growing CCO Strategy team, acting as a key enabler and closely aligning with the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), CEO and Board of Directors (BoD).

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

As Senior Manager CCO Strategy, you'll be operating at the very core of Sandoz business strategy, helping shape business-critical decisions on pipeline selection, portfolio management, strategic partnerships and M&A. You will lead high-impact, high-complexity initiatives across various business areas, platforms and regions, building strategic scenarios, facilitating key decision-making and enhancing the effectiveness of the CCO office.

This role will be part of the growing CCO Strategy team, acting as a key enabler and closely aligning with the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), CEO and Board of Directors (BoD).

Your Key Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Lead cross-functional projects, workstreams and strategic initiatives by:
  • Developing structured approaches and implementing effective solutions to complex problems
  • Effectively managing cross-functional (senior) stakeholders across multiple areas and platforms
  • Determining and driving the agenda of key meetings, monitoring timelines, tracking milestones, and ensuring follow-ups to enable timely execution and successful project outcomes
  • Communicating effectively and clearly with all audiences to influence stakeholder towards recommended actions
• Lead creation of high-impact documents that enable the business strategy and decision-making of the CCO, CEO, BoD, as well as targeting relevant external events by:
  • Researching and developing high-quality, clear and actionable content
  • Extracting meaningful insights and key messages from complex/ partial data
  • Ensuring clarity of messages, adequate synthesis and effective presentation towards executives
• Identify opportunities to drive operational excellence and efficacy in achieving the CCO strategic goals fostering your own entrepreneurship within Sandoz
• Support on ad-hoc challenges and sprints to enable the CCO strategic objectives and accelerate operative business decisions

What you'll bring to the role:

Essential Requirements:

• BA / BS required, business concentration ideal but not required; MBA or relevant graduate degree preferred
• Strong experience (3-5 years) in Top Tier management consulting with relevant project experience
• Preferred experience (1-3 years) in life sciences, healthcare, or FMCG industry; experience in a global or international context highly preferred
• Critical and strategic thinker with solutions-oriented mindset and excellent analytical skills allowing to handle complex/ partial information
• Proven leadership and project management skills, including cross-functional projects with significant and visible business impact
• Excellent executive communication and presentation skills, with ability to influence without authority and achieve project objectives in a multi-layered matrix organization
• Agility in shifting between various projects and initiatives, comfort with high-paced environment and complex challenges,
• Proven self-starter with high standards for excellence, innovative mindset, accountability, and compliance
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, etc.)
• Fluent in English, proficiency in an additional language is preferred

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.

Skills Desired

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