General Management

Job Summary

Accountable for contributing to the development of overall, cross‑functional programmes for a priority disease area or asset, shaping assets with strong commercial potential in line with therapeutic area priorities.

• Providing direction and functional expertise within a cross‑functional disease area/asset team, prioritising the US market with enhanced focus on major markets and ensuring close collaboration with Strategy, Early Product, SGD/Development and MAP teams.
• Maintaining full P&L accountability and implementing local strategy and tactics for the country (or cluster of countries) for the business unit.
• Delivering sales, market share, growth and profit within agreed objectives, strengthening company culture and enhancing Sandoz's external reputation while supporting global and regional objectives.
• Identifying key stakeholders and establishing relationships with customers, influencers and decision‑makers to facilitate broader and deeper access to Sandoz products and improve patient outcomes.
• Leading, managing and developing a competitive disease area/asset strategy, influencing and partnering across the disease ecosystem to set strategy for current and future product portfolios and maximise patient impact.
• Defining and communicating a clear business vision and strategy (based on the global vision) for the disease area/asset and ensuring it is reflected in a focused, lean and responsive organisation.
• Supporting strategic cross‑asset alignment to consistently speak with one voice across the organisation.
• Developing the disease area/asset pipeline and portfolio, and maximising success of key launches through effective leadership across functions, building future capabilities and ensuring seamless cross‑functional collaboration.
• Accountably shaping market‑relevant assets to become standard of care, focusing on the US and global markets.
• Maintaining the integrity, consistency and evolution of each brand across the lifecycle and contributing to decisions on joint ventures, in‑licensing agreements and other business relationships that impact long‑term results.
• Fostering an excellence‑oriented, customer‑focused culture, innovation and building best‑in‑class teams that fully exploit all market opportunities.
• Driving talent acquisition, succession planning and development of associates, and leading by example to create a culture of feedback.
• When applicable, ensuring alignment and creating a common cross‑unit platform for successful collaboration within Sandoz, fostering strong collaboration between all business units and ensuring alignment in external stakeholder agenda, policies and compliance approaches.

• Work Experience:
  
  Leading large and/or diverse multi‑functional teams.
• Geographic Scope experience and P&L or unit accountability.
• People leadership and management experience.
• Agile mindset and ability to shift priorities quickly.
• Expertise in asset management, budget management and business development.
• Strong business strategy and commercial excellence capabilities.
• Proficiency in cross‑functional collaboration and cross‑functional team leadership.
• Customer orientation with a focus on healthcare sector understanding.
• Digital marketing knowledge and influence skills.
• Inspirational leadership and ability to navigate joint ventures and key account management.
• Market access, market share, market trend, marketing strategy and product lifecycle management (PLM).
• Product launches and experience with the medicine event cycle (from clinical development to launch).
• Negotiation skills and stakeholder engagement and management.
• Strategic partnership building and success in strategic partnerships.
• Languages:
  
  English.