Head Finance Generic Platform (d/f/m)

(FCRS = BR012) SANDOZ DO BRASIL IND FARMACEUTICA LTDA; Basel; On-site; CHF 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Sandoz is seeking a Head Finance for the Generic Platform to lead financial strategy, modelling, and performance across the Standard and Specialty Generics value chain. You will drive resource allocation, BD&L investments, and ensure alignment with regional and manufacturing priorities.

Responsibilities include building business cases, guiding portfolio decisions, and partnering with STO, CCO, and Development to secure approvals and actionable insights for launches and lifecycle management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance or related field; MBA or CPA is a plus.
• 10+ years in financial management or controlling in a multinational environment.
• Fluent English; additional languages a plus.
• Experience in financial modelling and business case preparation.
• Leadership skills, strong in a matrix organization.
• Commercial and/or manufacturing business partnering experience.

Responsibilities

• Co-leads strategic and business initiatives to deliver sustainable growth.
• Develops and delivers business cases maximizing ROI for new molecule additions and BD&L.
• Partners with CCO, Development and Manufacturing to drive approvals and governance.
• Leads planning and reporting for Monthly/Strategic Budget processes.
• Acts as Generics finance partner to STO, CCO and Regional leadership.
• Ensures adherence to governance, controls and compliance.

Skills

Fluent English

Financial modelling

Leadership

Cross-functional partnering

International experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance or related field (MBA/CPA a plus)

Job description

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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 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 m