Technology Lead, Region Europe

Job Description Summary

The Technology Lead for Region Europe translates regional priorities into a value-driven technology roadmap and ensures delivery through Global Technology. It is the single point of accountability for the end-to-end technology relationship for the region and countries, enabling timely decisions, transparent prioritization and predictable outcomes. It drives integrated country landing and adoption of global platforms by aligning stakeholders, resolving trade-offs and removing delivery impediments.

Job Description

Sandoz is a global market leader in Biosimilar and Generics medicine, a market leader in a sector is helped pioneer. Our Vision is to be the world’s leading and most valued generic and biosimilar medicine company.

We are pursuing access to medicine goals in two areas:

• ensuring responsible access to critical antibiotics which is seen as the backbone of modern medicine, and 
• democratizing access to biologic therapies through healthy competition

As Technology Lead, Region Europe you'll own the overall relationship with the Europe region and Sandoz Technology, acting as a liaison between Global Technology teams and the business teams in the region and countries. Therefore, you'll will work closely with the Region Europe  leadership team, focusing on commercial operations, to define the Technology strategy that will enable markets to achieve their business goals.

You'll lead digital transformation initiatives and global programs that span across the whole value chain. The role ensures that global programs land in countries in an integrated and transparent way. You will therefore need to manage a broad range of stakeholders across functions (e.g. Commercial, Finance, Portfolio, etc.) and within Technology.

In addition, the role supports the program teams to effectively define the program delivery for countries and removes impediments in the planning and rollout of global programs with countries. Finally, the role creates transparency for local downstream / horizontal implications of the programs. The role leads a team who also acts as a single point of contact for any Technology-related country or regional need.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading demand management and owning end-to-end planning consolidation and adoption:
• Partner with region and countries to co-create the Business & Technology Strategy to achieve Sandoz goals
• Play back demand into overall planning cycle to navigate through unit demand management process
• Stakeholder engagement with direct exposure to Regional Heads and their reporting lines
• Represent regional and country interests in Global Technology portfolio management and budget allocation
• Work as a team member and collaborator with both global Program Leads and region/countries to make sure Global Technology roadmap is well delivered
• Ensure transparency of budget spent for Global, Region and Local budget owners across the program lifecycle to allow for efficient budget planning and spending
• Translate Global Technology program plans into end-to-end plans from a country perspective
• Ensure that regional / country business resources needed to deploy a project / service are available for successful rollout
• Support market in monitoring usage and adoption of global platforms and applications
• Escalate business critical ad hoc demands and support risk mitigation
• Ensure that global programs land in countries in an integrated and transparent way:
• Support joint target setting between Global Programs and internal customers (functions, teams, countries, enterprise level) to ensure shared objectives
• Ensure clear responsibilities according to an operational excellence framework and full transparency of the operating model and responsibilities for region / countries
• Ensure that global priorities and status of ongoing programs is always transparently and proactively communicated to region / country stakeholders
• Ensure high level of collaboration with region and countries
• Partner with domain change leads and integration leads to ensure effective program implementation:
• Input into integration planning and management for large scale programs that span across domains
• Ensure adoption of best practices in communication and engagement with regional and country stakeholders according to engagement playbooks
• Promote agile principles and solution deployment once wider rollout has been initiated
• Ensure change and communication tactics are aligned with regional priorities and way of working
• Provide input and shape operating model of new technology organization
• Support operating model of Sandoz Technology and translate operating model into working relationship with both region and countries

What you need to bring to the role:

• University degree or various degrees in science and/or business preferred.
• Fluent English written and spoken
• 10 years+ of experience in project management, consulting, finance or similar
• 10 years+ experience in leading transformational programs, ideally in the field of data, digital or technology  
• Deep experience in stakeholder management in a complex environment with matrix organization
• Experience in healthcare, pharmaceuticals preferably generics
• Leadership experience in matrix organization to manage without authority
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize information to develop recommendations, and ability to persuade / influence organization of recommended path
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects, to be accountable for individual & team results and drive change across functions
• High display of Sandoz Values & Behaviors

What You'll Receive
Sandoz compensation is determined by job level, qualifications, niche skills, experience, and location within company salary ranges. Fully proficient and highly effective employees can expect a starting salary around market median, with those new to the level or with less functional depth at the lower end of the range and those with sustained superior or niche skills towards the higher end of the range. Internal equity and external market data inform our range placement. Annual salary reviews consider performance outcomes, market alignment, and business needs.

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.
 

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