Global Brand Director (m/f/d)

Job Description Summary

As a Global Brand Director, you will define and drive the brand strategy and vision across our biosimilar portfolio, providing strategic leadership and actionable guidance to regional and country teams, empowering them to successfully launch competitive biosimilars, maximize the growth of in-market assets, and expand patient access worldwide.

Job Description

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!

Your Key Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Develop the brand strategy and global tactical plan, budget management and execution of global key deliverables. Deliver specific and implementable guidance, tools and tactics
• Fully accountability for at least one brand strategy. Lead the development and implementation of the strategic marketing for the brand
• Applies strong commercial understanding of top markets and our biosimilar competition to brand management
• Strong collaboration with development and manufacturing teams both internally and alliance partner team if appropriate
• Ensure effective pro-active communication with key stakeholder in Global, Regions and markets
• Monitor the market / product performance, competitive environment and customer base to quickly identify plan changes
• Ensure effective pro-active communication with key stakeholder in Global, Regions and local markets
• Forecast sales (including market, market share, pricing), supply volumes and risk and opportunities with a long-term view
• Present to senior management on strategy, launch updates and action plans to address competitive threats and/ or market events

What you’ll bring to the role:Essential Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (medicine, biology, chemistry, business or a similar field preferred). MBA or advanced degree (e.g. MS, Pharm D) preferred
• 10+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical/ biotech industry or equivalent experience
• Strategic and Operational Marketing Experience required
• Local country experience in a key market required (e.g., Customer facing roles, Operational Marketing)
• Prior above country experience preferable (e.g., Regional Operations, Global Marketing)
• Internationally-oriented: cultural awareness and sensitivity gained through working and living abroad is a plus.
• Experience in Immunology, Oncology, Ophthalmology, Neurology or Endocrinology is a plus
• Experience working with partners is a plus
• Experience in leading in a matrix is required
• Proven ability to prioritize resource and deliver key activities in a highly competitive environment, including pragmatic, agile, flexible mindset
• Proven ability to quickly adapt to fast changing environments
• Proven ability to take accountability for a project or product, set the ambition and energize others to deliver against the objectives.
• Strong communication skills including proven ability to work and communicate with senior executives
• Strong interpersonal skills, the ability to work cross-functionally and with country organizations, to align interests of multiple parties

You’ll receive:

Sandoz has an employee-first approach and that’s why your personal growth is so important to us. You will have access to Coursera and other learning platforms with more than 200,000 learning videos and 5000+ courses.

In addition to the various learning opportunities, we offer company benefits, such as:

• 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

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.

The law provides for severely disabled / equal applicants the opportunity to involve the local representative body for disabled employees (SBV) in the application process. If you would like to request this, please let us know in advance as a note on your CV.

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Skills Desired

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