Director Planning and Operations (d/f/m)

Sandoz International GmbH; Holzkirchen; Vor Ort; EUR 80.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Join a forward-thinking company as a Director in Planning and Operations, where your strategic leadership will shape the future of healthcare. This role involves engaging with executives, leading key initiatives, and fostering collaboration across teams. With a commitment to diversity and an agile work environment, you will contribute to impactful projects that enhance access to high-quality medicines. If you are passionate about making a difference in the global healthcare landscape and have the experience to influence change, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifikationen

• 8+ years of experience in leading strategic initiatives and PMO.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Aufgaben

• Engage with executive bodies and lead strategy projects.
• Manage governance for programs and ensure effective execution.

Kenntnisse

Stakeholder Management

Change Management

Strategic Initiative Leadership

Communication Skills

Resilience

Ausbildung

University Degree in Science

University Degree in Business

Jobbeschreibung

Director Planning and Operations (d/f/m)

Responsibilities:

• Engages with executive bodies, preparing, developing content, and acting as sparring partner for SLT-1 / SLT-2 members.
• Leads and independently owns a small portfolio of strategy projects prioritized by the Sandoz Group, the CEO, and the Executive Committee including scoping, content creation, and stakeholder management confirming major milestones at program level.
• Assists, communicates, and fosters collaboration within the leadership team in decision-making, program management, and initiative implementation.
• Establishes and manages robust governance for the programs to ensure an effective execution monitoring framework.
• Provides transparency into challenges, risks, and issues at a program level, ensuring appropriate remediation and/or course correction.
• Ensures robust change management and communications input throughout the programs.
• Short term focus on the overall transition in Germany and Region Europe, during the transformation, collaborating closely with other global/regional workstreams and acting as a link to the Sandoz Germany organization.

What you’ll bring to the role:

• University degree or various degrees in science and/or business.
• 8+ years experience in leading strategic initiatives and PMO, preferred consulting experience and strategy background.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, ability and confidence to influence and communicate with stakeholders across different levels in the organization.
• Resilience, ability to manage change.
• Fluent English (written and spoken), German language is a plus.

Why Sandoz?

Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, touched the lives of almost 500 million patients last year and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!

With investments in new development capabilities, state-of-the-art 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 and entrepreneurial spirit are 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 encouraged!

The future is ours to shape!

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.

Hiring decisions are only based on the qualification for the position, regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age, and disability.

The law provides for severely disabled/equal applicants the opportunity to involve the local representative body for disabled employees (SBV) in the application process. If you would like to request this, please let us know in advance as a note on your CV.

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Location

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