Global Marketing Head – Immunology (mfd)

Job Description Summary

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:

Your responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Define and own the global Immunology TA and franchise strategy including a coherent portfolio vision across biosimilars (positioning sequencing and strategic tradeoffs) aligned with Sandoz enterprise and portfolio priorities
• Provide strategic leadership to Global Brand Directors and Brand Managers ensuring strong coaching challenge and guidance while preserving clear brand accountability and driving consistent strategic rigor and prioritization across the franchise
• Own TA level budget stewardship ensuring resources are allocated in line with strategic priorities and portfolio value creation
• Monitor the competitive landscape at TA level anticipating market competitor and portfolio implications and adjusting strategy accordingly
• Establish and steward effective governance and interfaces across Global Regions and Countries ensuring global strategy is aligned with local market realities and translated into sustainable commercial impact
• Act as the primary global marketing and executive interface for Immunology representing the franchise in senior leadership forums and enabling informed enterprise decisionmaking through clear confident upward communication
• Oversee above brand deliverables including portfolio narratives strategic frameworks launch principles and cross brand standards ensuring integration of brand strategies into coherent TA and portfolio level outputs
• Own the global forecast assumptions for the Immunology portfolio ensuring consistency and alignment across brand plans regions Bio Operations and Finance
• Take a leadership role in Business Development assessments providing TA and portfolio input into evaluation of new opportunities partnerships and pipeline assets
• Act as a senior leader within the GMAA Leadership Team contributing beyond Immunology by supporting portfolio wide and cross TA initiatives enterprise prioritization and capability building
• Lead cross functional collaboration with Bio Operations Supply Chain Finance Medical Regulatory and Development on portfolio level forecasting demand planning supply strategy and risk mitigation acting as escalation point for strategic tradeoffs

What youll bring to the role:

Essential Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in business science medicine or related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred
• 10 years experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry
• Extensive experience in global and/or regional marketing leadership roles
• Proven track record leading senior global teams in a matrix environment
• Strong understanding of biosimilars and/or specialty care with Immunology experience highly desirable
• Experience working closely with regions and countries ideally including local market roles in key markets
• Highly strategic thinker with strong portfolio and franchise mindset
• Excellent upward communication skills and confidence engaging senior executives
• Strong influencer who can align diverse stakeholders without direct line authority
• Able to balance strategic rigor with pragmatism in fastmoving competitive environments
• Proven people leader with a passion for coaching and developing senior talent
• Culturally agile and internationally minded

Youll receive:

Sandoz has an employee-first approach and thats why your personal growth is so important to us. You will have access to Coursera and other learning platforms with more than 200000 learning videos and 5000 courses.

In addition to the various learning opportunities we offer company benefits such as:

• 30 days of annual leave
• Holiday allowance
• Additional rewards for special occasions (e.g. service length awards marriage celebration etc.)
• Company pension schemes and capital formation benefits
• Parental leave
• Other offerings such as bike leasing

Why Sandoz

Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz a leader in this sector provided more than 900 million patient treatments across 100 countries in 2024 and while we are proud of this achievement we have an ambition to do more!

With investments in new development capabilities 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 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 flexible-hybrid careers where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is supported!

Join us!

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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