Head Finance Generic Platform (d/f/m)

Sandoz; Basel; On-site; CHF 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Sandoz is seeking a senior finance leader to steer the Generics platform’s financial strategy across multiple regions. You will drive investment choices, funding allocations and MOUs, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives and manufacturing priorities.

The role requires advanced financial modelling, strong stakeholder management, and the ability to translate portfolio dynamics into value‑driven decisions. Basel office, global scope, high impact.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in financial management or controlling in a multinational environment.
• Fluent English, both written and spoken.
• Experience in financial modelling and in preparing business cases.
• Leadership skills, effective in a matrix organization.
• Experience in commercial and/or manufacturing business partnering, portfolio knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Co‑creates overall Generics strategy and supports BD&L governance and portfolio decisions.
• Develops and delivers business cases to maximize ROI for molecule additions and investments.
• Partners with CCO, Development and Manufacturing to drive end‑to‑end business cases and obtain approvals.
• Provides financial leadership for S&OP and regional demand planning, aligning resources and capacity.
• Drives cost optimization and margin expansion through short/midterm actions with STO and regional teams.
• Leads financial pre‑launch reviews and supports country launch decisions and forecast scenarios.
• Leads monthly performance monitoring and budgeting/strategic planning processes.
• Acts as a trusted finance partner to STO, regional leadership and Global Finance for integrated decision making.

Skills

Financial management

Financial modelling

Leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Business partnering

Education

Bachelor’s in Finance/Business Administration

MBA or CPA (a plus)

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.

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

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!

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