Senior Manager, Strategy – Chief Commercial Office

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

Requirements

• 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)
• 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.

Certifications & Qualifications

• BA
• BS
• MBA