Senior Manager Strategy – Chief Commercial Office (d/f/m)

Sandoz in Deutschland; Holzkirchen; Hybrid; EUR 979,000 - 1,818,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation days: 30

Vacation payment: €1200

Capital-forming benefit: €40/mo

Company pension

Hybrid work model

Learning platforms

Job summary

Sandoz is seeking a strategic leader to drive cross-functional initiatives and executive-ready communications. You will shape content for senior leaders and guide projects that align with the CCO and BoD priorities.

Ideal candidates have consulting background, strong analytical skills, and experience in life sciences or FMCG contexts, with a proactive, entrepreneurial mindset and comfort in a hybrid work setting.

Qualifications

• BA/BS required; MBA or relevant graduate degree preferred.
• 3–5 years in top-tier management consulting.
• 1–3 years life sciences, healthcare, or FMCG experience preferred.
• Excellent executive communication and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional projects and manage senior stakeholders.
• Develop high-impact documents for the CCO, CEO and BoD.
• Identify opportunities to drive operational excellence.
• Support on ad-hoc challenges and sprints.
• Track timelines, milestones, and ensure follow-ups.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Analytical thinking

MS Office (PowerPoint, Excel)

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Co-pilot

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!

Your Key Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional projects, workstreams and strategic initiatives by:
  • Developing structured approaches and implementing effective solutions to complex problems
  • Effectively managing cross-functional (senior) stakeholders across multiple areas and platforms
  • Determining and driving the agenda of key meetings, monitoring timelines, tracking milestones, and ensuring follow-ups to enable timely execution and successful project outcomes
  • Communicating effectively and clearly with all audiences to influences stakeholder towards recommended actions
• Lead creation of high-impact documents that enable the business strategy and decision-making of the CCO, CEO, BoD, as well as targeting relevant external events by:
  • Researching and developing high-quality, clear and actionable content
  • Extracting meaningful insights and key messages from complex/ partial data
  • Ensuring clarity of messages, adequate synthesis and effective presentation towards executives
• Identify opportunities to drive operational excellence and efficacy in achieving the CCO strategic goals fostering your own entrepreneurship within Sandoz
• Support on ad-hoc challenges and sprints to enable the CCO strategic objectives and accelerate operative business decisions
• Key Performance Indicators will include but are not limited to:
  • Correctness, completeness and meaningfulness of the analyses
  • Clarity, sharpness and efficacy of documents and presentations
  • Reliability, timeliness and accountability over project delivery and associated impacts
  • Key stakeholder’s satisfaction

Essential Requirements

What you’ll bring to the role:

• BA / BS required, business concentration ideal but not required; MBA or relevant graduate degree preferred
• Strong experience (3-5 years) in Top Tier management consulting (McKinsey, BCG, Bain) with relevant project experience
• Preferred experience (1-3 years) in life sciences, healthcare, or FMCG industry; experience in a global or international context highly preferred
• Critical and strategic thinker with solutions-oriented mindset and excellent analytical skills (problem structuring and problem solving) allowing to handle complex/ partial information
• Proven leadership and project management skills, including cross-functional projects with significant and visible business impact, able to operate successfully at all organizational levels and influence (senior) stakeholders towards recommended decisions/ actions
• Excellent executive communication and presentation skills able to influence without authority and achieve project objectives in a multi-layered matrix organization
• Agility in shifting between various projects and initiatives, comfort with high-paced environment and complex challenges, ability to re-prioritize quickly to keep focus on value-generating activities
• Proven self-starter and independent thinker with high standards for excellence, innovative mindset, accountability, and compliance
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, etc.), including Co-pilot
• Fluent in English, proficiency in an additional language is preferred

Compensation Structure & Criteria

Sandoz compensation is determined by job level, qualifications, niche skills, experience, and location within company salary ranges. Fully proficient and highly effective employees can expect a starting salary around market median, with those new to the level or with less functional depth at the lower end of the range and those with sustained superior or niche skills towards the higher end of the range. Internal equity and external market data inform our range placement. Annual salary reviews consider performance outcomes, market alignment, and business needs.

• Job location: Holzkirchen, Germany
• Starting pay range: EUR 87.700 – 162.900
• Variable compensation: 15% performance-based bonus
• Additional benefits include: 30 vacation days per year (in full time), 1.200€ vacation payment (in full time), €40/month in capital-forming benefits (in full time), company pension, flex-hybrid working 50% per week in the office, access to our learning & development platforms Skillsoft & Learnlight
• Pay frequency: Monthly
• Expected weekly working hours: 40 hours
• Contract type: full time

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.

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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