Head Finance B2B

Job Description Summary

-Lead all FPA activities for B2B globally, providing insightful and value-added analysis and decision support to the business leadership.

Job Description

Position Purpose:

Lead all FPA activities for B2B globally, providing insightful and value-added analysis and decision support to the business leadership.

Your Key Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Support B2B CFO to achieve financial performance targets and proactively manage financial results, including strong business partnering with the different B2B LT members and functions, playing a key role as member of the B2B Extended LT.

• Lead the Business Planning & Analysis (BPA) colleagues and ensure all BPA cycle related activities are performed in high quality and a timely manner; manage and coordinate processes between divisions

• Support Strategy, Sales and new business to drive investment / divestment / portfolio decisions with clear recommendations considering Enterprise Value as key KPI for decision-making

• Lead the consolidation, presentation and interpretation of the financial results in a meaningful way to ensure effective decision-making. Challenge and investigate results with the objective of identifying gaps, check progress towards budget achievement and recommend gap closing actions assessing risks & opportunities. Ensure high-quality preparation of sales projections for short-term (LO) and long-term (TGT, MYF, LTP), leveraging on a strong collaboration with supply and sales teams

• Support Business Monitoring function to understand market trends, threats and opportunities that may impact B2B performance short and long term

• Actively participate in the development and implementation of the pricing strategy and initiatives, including developing TPC intelligence (capacity and absorption maps) in collaboration with manufacturing sites

• Pro-actively support and partner with other Sandoz commercial BPA Heads, with special focus on shadow sales process. Deputize for CFO B2B.

• Lead a team of 3-4 associates

What you’ll bring to the role:

Essential Requirements:

• 12+ years of finance experience preferably in generic pharmaceuticals or FMCG. Fluent in English, knowledge of German advantageous

• Sound business/marketing acumen, preferably with experience in a Novartis or Sandoz Sales organization at global, regional or local level

• Experience in technical operations advantageous

• Proven analytical skills, highly numerate, experience in common statistical analysis and techniques, proficient user of common business intelligence systems.

• Experienced in planning tools (BPC) and SAP modules (FICO / SPMR)

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.

Skills Desired

Ability To Influence Key Stakeholders, AI Driven, Building Effective Teams, Capital Allocation, Critical Thinking, Data Cleansing / Normalization, Data Visualization, Effective Communications, Embracing Change, Employee Engagement, Financial And Management, Insight Generation, Managing Ambiguity, Market Understanding, Planning & Analysis, Process Optimization, Rapid Problem Solving, Reporting, Understanding Value Drivers