Head Finance Generic Platform (d/f/m)

Job Description Summary

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! 

The Head Finance Generic Platform is the financial leader driving value creation across the Standard and Specialty Generics value chain. The role will pro-actively drive optimal resource allocation, prioritising investments with key focus on oral solids, injectables and respiratory across internal development, BD&L and life cycle mgt. Coordinates together with STO, Regions and Countries short-, medium- and long-term projections and designs and implement improvement measures supporting a margin expansion roadmap.   

This role has the responsibility to support decision making of pipeline choices ensuring financial alignment with companies’ expectations, as well, as facilitating successful pre and launch activities. Success requires financial leadership, advanced financial modelling, and deep analytical insight into portfolio, pipeline, and market dynamics, while ensuring strong collaboration and alignment with commercial regions and manufacturing priorities. 

Your Key Responsibilities: 

Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to: 

• Strategic and Business initiatives  

Co-creates overall Generics strategy and ad-hoc activities to deliver competitive, sustainable growth for Sandoz. Decision member in related Standard and Specialty Generics decision/operating bodies in relation to strategy, portfolio, pipeline, LCM and BD&L.

• Business Case Excellence and Investment Choices 

Develops and delivers business cases: maximizing ROI for selection of new molecule additions, BD&L investment decisions and monitoring of existing portfolio and making recommendation decisions on investment choices. 

Partners with CCO, Development, and Manufacturing leadership to drive comprehensive, end-to-end business cases securing approvals under governance frameworks. 

• BD&L 

Finance Business Partner in the BD&L investment choices. Ensure compliance with financial commitments of existing partnerships and leads term improvements ensuring profitability levels. 

• S&OP  

Provides transparency of financial implications of the 3 year regional demand planning (APO). Drives optimal/ lean resource allocation across Commercial Regions to maximize sales and profit to the Commercial Heads and CFO. Ensuring best possible leverage of available capacity, optimal country volume allocation. 

• Margin expansion  

In cooperation with STO develops & implements short/midterm identifies and implements measures to improve COGS. Reviews and proposes cost roadmap improvement to ensures profitably level in the commercial units.  

• Launches 

 Financial pre-launch reviews to assess target product profile planning, COGS position, supply & forecast scenarios including supporting global decision on country launches and global view of launch forecasts.

• Planning and Reporting 

 Leads the Generics financial performance monitoring (Monthly Reporting, Last Estimates) as well as supporting high level target setting process (Budget & Strat. Plan). Assesses financial implications of the pipeline value. 

Co-leads the medium- and long-term volume and value projections in alignment with Regions, countries and STO.

• Business Partnering 

Acts as a trusted Generics finance partner to STO, CCO, Development, Global Finance, and Regional leadership—ensuring cross-functional alignment and enabling high-quality, integrated decision-making at the enterprise level. Acts as platform generics business partner for the Finance Team.   

• Leadership and Talent Development  

Attracts, develops, and retains finance talent. 

• Governance, Compliance, and Control 

Ensures rigorous financial processes, strong internal controls, and full compliance with audit requirements, maintaining the highest standards of governance and transparency. 

What you’ll bring to the role: 

Essential and Desirable Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration or other relevant field of a leading business school or top university (MBA or CPA a plus). 

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

• Fluent English, both written and spoken. Other languages are a plus. 

• Financial experience in a local organization, cross functional and international preferred.
• Experience in financial modelling and business case preparation.
• Leadership skills, optimal in matrix organization. 

• Previous commercial and/or manufacturing business partnering experience, knowledgeable on portfolio. 

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 good health. 

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.

Accessibility and accommodation  

Sandoz is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, please send an e-mail to [email protected]  and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message. 

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