Global Marketing Head – Immunology

Role Overview

• 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 decision-making 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

Requirements

• Bachelor’s 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 fast-moving, competitive environments
• Proven people leader with a passion for coaching and developing senior talent
• Culturally agile and internationally minded

Benefits

• 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