Associate Director FP&A

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!
The Associate Director FP&A, provides end-to-end financial leadership across the Generics value chain, serving as the trusted finance business partner for portfolio management, BD&L initiatives, and strategic projects. The role drives value creation through insightful financial analysis, robust business partnering, and data-driven decision support, requiring strong financial modeling, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills. The scope will focus on Gx, but will provide business analytics across all global commercial platforms.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

Long-Term Strategy & Portfolio Finance

Drive long-term portfolio value by supporting strategy development, business case analytics, and platform-level planning. Lead financial assessments across the pipeline lifecycle, contributing to asset selection, ROI optimization, GPC decision-making, and commercialization reviews to support informed investment and portfolio prioritization decisions.

Business Cases structures & valuation:

Drive the financial assessment and execution of BD&L opportunities by leading valuation, due diligence, deal structuring, and scenario-based financial modeling. Provide data-driven insights and risk analyses that inform negotiations, optimize deal terms, and support sound investment decisions.

 

Planning and Reporting

Lead Generics Platform performance management, planning, and reporting processes, providing financial insights and recommendations through analysis of business performance across regions, segments, molecules, products, and markets.

Lead financial performance management of BD&L activities through robust planning, tracking, KPI development, and reporting. Leverage analytics and lessons learned to improve investment effectiveness, strengthen financial assessments, and drive continuous value creation across the Generics Platform.

S&OP, Supply and Demand Finance

Supports platform commercial and supply chain functions on short/mid-term and long-term financial implications of the 3 year regional demand planning (APO). Support APO analysis versus various scenarios, including APO dollarization dashboards. Provides financial support for LTDCP activities

Business Partnering

Provide platform-level analytics to support decision-making and cross-functional alignment with End 2 End perspective. Provide in-depth knowledge of the business and work cross functional with all needed stakeholders: financial (e.g. tax, treasury, accounting, funds flow, ESO, STO, SGD, etc.) and business (e.g. BD&L, Platformer, wider CCO, STO, Regions, etc.)

  

Governance, Compliance, and Control

Ensure strong financial governance, full compliance and adherence to internal controls and audit requirements.

Key Performance Indicators/Measures of Success

·        Drive BU target net sales, maximize EV

·        Increasing GX Pipeline Value, decisions on right assets

·        High quality  business cases, strong BD stakeholder fedback

·        Reporting accuracy, consistency and compliance

Job dimension

Financial responsibility: Scope supporting AI Platform Net Sales, increasing Sandoz Pipeline

Impact on the organization: Strategic impact on defined Region’s financial performance. Incremental pipeline

Ideal Background

Education:

University degree in Finance, Business Administration or other relevant field MBA/CPA preferred

Fluent in English (oral and written), additional languages are a plus

Languages:           

English

Experience and Skills:    

+10 to12 years’ experience in financial management or controlling in a multinational environment (branded pharma, generics or fast-moving consumer goods industry preferred)

Expertise in financial modelling, deal structuring, and strategic analysis

Strong business acumen and familiarity with R&D and commercial models

Financial experience in a local organization, cross functional and international preferred.

Leadership skills, optimal in matrix organization

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.

Skills Desired

Ability To Influence Key Stakeholders, AI Driven, Building Effective Teams, Capital Allocation, Critical Thinking, Data Cleansing / Normalization, Data Visualization, Financial And Management Reporting, Giving And Receiving Feedback, Insight Generation, Interpersonal Savvy, Managing Ambiguity, Market Understanding, Planning & Analysis, Pmi (Post-Merger Integration), Process Optimization, Rapid Problem Solving, Understanding Value Drivers