Head Biosimilars FP&A & Strategy

Job Description Summary

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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 Bio FP&A and Strategy leads performance management, financial planning and productivity delivery across Biosimilars development, manufacturing and supply footprint, driving cost competitiveness, capital efficiency, and end to end enterprise value creation.

This role is a key financial partner to the senior leadership team, providing insights and transparency driving operational execution and strategic decision-making across the expanding Biosimilars pipeline and network.

Key competencies include leadership in strategic thinking, innovative financial modelling and a wide range of analytical understanding including internal and external analytics.

Major accountabilities:  

Responsibilities include but not limited to: 

• Strategic Business leadership:Shapes financial perspective of Biosimilars strategy across development, manufacturing and supply, ensuring sustainable and competitive growth in the journey of Bio assets expansion.

• Strategic Investment Management: Leads financial oversight of >$1bln investment portfolio, ensuring disciplined capital allocation, governance, and delivery aligned with Sandoz strategic priorities.

• Performance Management: Owns multi-year financial planning and reporting agenda to support strategic decision-making and continuous improvement. Ensures financial transparency of the overall development and manufacturing expansion plans. Drives integrated planning across supply readiness and inventory build where relevant, balancing service, cost, and cash.

• Productivity and Cost Competitiveness: Champions continuous efficiency improvements across development and manufacturing, leading identification, sizing, and prioritization of asset development efficiencies and manufacturing productivity levers ensuring positive financial impact.

• Enterprise Business Partnering: Acts as trusted strategic finance partner to Bio development, manufacturing and supply leadership, Development and Operations Finance and Commercial Finance organization, supporting cross-functional alignment and integrated decision-making.

• Process Excellence: Defines and implements effective FP&A and productivity processes in alignment with Bio execution plans driving automation/digitalization to improve data quality

• Team Leadership & Development: Lead and develop, building capability in business analysis, reporting, and financial insights.  Drive digital literacy of overall team.

• Compliance & Control: Ensure financial processes meet internal control standards and are audit-ready, with clear documentation and governance.

Minimum Requirements:  

What you’ll bring to the role: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related discipline; MBA, CPA/CMA a plus
• 10+ years of experience in Finance Operations and FP&A roles. Preferably also with Finance Commercial experience.
• Preferable within a pharmaceutical organization
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize information to develop recommendations, and ability to persuade/influence organization pursuit of recommended path
• Demonstrated business acumen - connecting the dots and generating insights, prioritizing business questions and recommendations
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex reports and analysis into simple ‘business speak’ and present results to internal clients up to the executive level
• Strong leadership experience with a track record of team development and performance delivery
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and business partnering skills

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. 

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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Skills Desired

Ability To Influence Key Stakeholders, AI Driven Insight Generation, Building Effective Teams, Capital Allocation Financial And Management, Data Cleansing / Normalization, Decision Support, Effective Communications, Interpersonal Savvy, Managing Ambiguity, Market Understanding, People Development, Planning & Analysis, Process Optimization, Rapid Problem Solving, Reporting, Understanding Value Drivers