Head Finance Generic Platform (d/f/m)

C080 (FCRS = CH080) Sandoz AG; Basel; On-site; CHF 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Sandoz AG in Basel is seeking a Head of Finance for the Generic Platform. You will lead financial strategy, model complex portfolio scenarios, and partner across regions to steer investments in oral solids, injectables and respiratory products.

You will drive forecasting, cost optimization, and profitability initiatives while collaborating with STO, CCO, Development and Global Finance to support country launches and lifecycle management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration or similar field; MBA or CPA a plus.
• 10+ years of experience in financial management or controlling in a multinational environment.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Co-creates overall Generics strategy and ad-hoc activities to deliver sustainable growth; participates in related decision/operating bodies.
• Develops and delivers business cases: maximizing ROI for molecule additions, BD&L investments and portfolio monitoring.
• Acts as BD&L finance partner; ensures compliance with financial commitments and profitability improvements.
• Provides transparency of financial implications of 3-year regional demand planning; drives resource allocation across regions.
• Develops measures to improve COGS and reviews cost roadmaps for profitability.
• Supports pre-launch reviews and global launch decision processes with country forecasts.
• Leads Generics financial performance monitoring and supports budgets and strategic planning.
• Acts as trusted finance partner to STO, CCO, Development, Global Finance and regional leadership.

Skills

Leadership

Financial modelling

Cross-functional alignment

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Business Administration

Job description

Job Description Summary

See Job Description. 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 implements 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

• 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

• 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 [e-mail] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.

Our Purpose here at Sandoz is pioneering access for patients. As the global leader on 'off-patent' high quality medicines, we are able to make medicine more affordable and accessible. Our broad global portfolio comprises of approximately 1,300 quality biosimilar and generic medicines, enabling us to provide more than 900 million patient treatments across 100+ countries per year, and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more! Powered by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for dedication and skills, experience a flexible, collaborative & inclusive culture where diversity of thought is welcomed and where personal growth is nurtured!