Senior Manager, Strategy – Chief Commercial Office

Sandoz

Senior Manager CCO Strategy at Sandoz leading high-impact projects for business strategy and decision-making. Collaborating with executive leadership to enhance operational effectiveness and drive strategic initiatives.

Posted 6/13/2026full-timeHolzkirchen • 🇩🇪 GermanySenior💰 €87,700 - €162,900 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

30 vacation days per year (in full time)
1.200€ vacation payment (in full time)
€40/month in capital-forming benefits (in full time)
company pension
flex-hybrid working 50% per week in the office
access to our learning & development platforms Skillsoft & Learnlight

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Hard Skills & Tools

project managementanalytical skillsproblem structuringproblem solvingexecutive communicationpresentation skillsleadershipstrategic thinkingoperational excellenceentrepreneurship

Soft Skills

influencing stakeholdersagilityself-starterindependent thinkeraccountabilityinnovative mindsetsolutions-oriented mindsetability to re-prioritizecomfort with high-paced environmenteffective communication

Certifications

BABSMBA