Head, Portfolio & Launch (Malaysia & Singapore)

Job Description Summary

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!

This role is responsible for driving end-to-end portfolio strategy, ensuring strong lifecycle management of existing brands, and leading excellence in launch readiness and execution across Malaysia & Singapore. Operating at the intersection of Commercial, Medical, Regulatory, Market Access, and Supply Chain, it ensures pipeline prioritization aligns with both local market dynamics and regional/global strategy, playing a pivotal role in maximizing portfolio value, accelerating access to medicines, and enabling sustainable long-term growth.

Job Description

Your Key Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Lead end-to-end portfolio strategy across Malaysia and Singapore, ensuring alignment with regional and global priorities

• Drive successful planning and execution of new product launches through strong cross-functional coordination

• Maximize portfolio value through lifecycle management and identification of growth opportunities

• Act as the key interface between local, regional, and global teams, ensuring alignment and integration of market insights into strategy

• Monitor market dynamics, competitor activity, and healthcare landscape to inform strategic decision-making

• Oversee demand planning, forecasting, and financial discipline to ensure effective portfolio performance

• Establish clear processes, KPIs, and governance to track execution and drive operational excellence

• Build strong stakeholder collaboration across functions to ensure aligned and high-quality execution

What you’ll bring to the role:

Essential Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Life Sciences, Pharmacy, or a related field; MBA is a plus

• Minimum 10 years of experience in the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry with strong commercial exposure

•  Proven success in driving portfolio growth, product launches, and delivering commercial results

• Strong understanding of Malaysia and Singapore healthcare landscapes, including pricing, access, and tender dynamics

• Demonstrated ability to shape and execute go-to-market strategies that drive revenue and market share

• Strong leadership presence with experience influencing senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams

• Strategic thinker with the ability to translate market insights into competitive advantage and business outcomes

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.

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Skills Desired

Agility, Asset Management, Commercial Excellence, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Customer Orientation, Healthcare Sector Understanding, Influencing Skills, Marketing Strategy, Negotiation Skills, Operational Excellence, Priority Disease Areas Expertise, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Product Marketing, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Partnerships

Global leader in generic and biosimilar medicines, operating as an independent company spun off from Novartis. Based in Basel.

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