International Region Technology Lead

Sandoz is going through an exciting and transformative period as a global leader and pioneering provider of sustainable Generic and Biosimilar medicines.

Now as an independently listed company, Sandoz aims to increase its strategic focus, operate with greater agility, set clearer business objectives, enhance shareholder returns, and strengthen its culture for us, the Sandoz associates.

This is an exciting time in our history, and by creating a new and ambitious path, it will provide a unique opportunity for us all, both professionally and personally.

Join us as a Founder of our ‘new’ Sandoz

Lead Technology, Sandoz Region International (SIR) owns the overall relationship with the International Region (South America, Africa, Middle East, Russia, Asia, Japan and Australia) and Sandoz Technology. The role acts as a liaison between Global Technology teams and the business teams in the region and countries. Therefore, the role will work closely with the Region NA leadership team, focusing on commercial operations, to define the Technology strategy that will enable markets to achieve their business goals. The role owner will sit in the region’s Head LT and thus needs to engage with leaders in the region but also countries directly.

The role will 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. The role holder 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.

**Major **Accountabilities**

**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
- 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

**Overview**
- 4 direct reports; but needs to manage without authority both regional and CTO stakeholders and colleagues in region/country organizations.
- Responsible for Technology (combined IT and Digital) budget across the region.
- C ritical for business continuity and strategic direction of digital and technology in the region.

**Ideal Background**

**Education**:
University degree or various degrees in science and/or business preferred.

**Languages**:
Fluen