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Princeton (New Jersey) (Sandoz), United States of America
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Job Description Summary
The Manager, Strategy Support enables effective strategy development and disciplined execution across North America. Supporting both the Director, Strategy Development and the Director, Strategy Deployment, this role helps create the structure, coordination, and analytical support needed to translate strategic priorities into informed decisions, aligned plans, and consistent follow-through. The position plays an important integrative role across planning, governance, insight generation, and executive support, helping ensure that strategic priorities are advanced with clarity, rigor, and operational discipline.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!
Position Location: This position will be located at the Princeton, NJ US Headquarters site. Our Sandoz flexible hybrid working approach allows US office-based employees to work up to 50% of their monthly workday remotely. This role will not have the ability to be located remotely. Preference will be given to local candidates not requiring relocation.
U.S. Work visa sponsorship not available for this role. Must have U.S. work authorization.
Within the North America Strategy & Growth organization, the Manager, Strategy Support provides project management, analytical, governance, and executive support across priority strategy development and deployment activities. Reporting to the Director, Strategy Deployment and partnering closely with the Director, Strategy Development, this role helps coordinate planning processes, track execution against priorities, synthesize insights, and produce leadership-ready materials that enable effective decision-making and disciplined follow-through. This role requires strong organizational discipline, structured problem-solving, excellent communication, and the ability to manage multiple workstreams in a complex, matrixed environment.
Major accountabilities:
Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Key Performance Indicators:
Key Capabilities Required:
What you’ll bring to the role:
Required Qualifications:
Education & Experience (Required):
• Bachelor's degree in business, economics, engineering, life sciences, or a related field; advanced degree (MBA, MS) preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in strategy execution, PMO, management consulting, transformation, corporate strategy, or a related field.
• Experience supporting cross-functional initiatives, governance routines, and strategic planning or deployment processes.
• Experience applying structured problem-solving and analytical tools, including dashboards, trackers, scorecards, and KPI reporting, to support planning, governance, and decision-making.
• Experience preparing presentations, summaries, and other leadership-ready materials for senior stakeholders.
• Experience supporting multiple concurrent initiatives in a complex, matrixed environment with competing priorities and deadlines.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience in pharmaceuticals, healthcare, life sciences, or other regulated industries.
• Familiarity with strategic deployment frameworks (e.g., OKRs, Hoshin Kanri, Balanced Scorecard) or enterprise PMOs.
• Experience with competitive landscape analysis, scenario planning, or strategic roadmap development.
• Exposure to senior leadership planning and performance management processes.
• Lean / Six Sigma exposure (e.g., Green Belt).
• Experience with reporting, planning, and workflow tools such as Power BI, Smartsheet, Visio, Miro, or similar platforms.
You’ll Receive:
Sandoz offers a generous employee benefits package that includes a competitive salary, health insurance coverage for medical, prescription drugs, dental and vision, a generous company match for retirement savings accounts, and generous paid time off. We also follow a hybrid work policy that combines a mix of in-person and remote work to allow our employees flexibility.
The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $117,500 – $218,300 USD/year; however, while salary ranges are effective from 1/1/26 through 12/31/26, fluctuations in the job market may necessitate adjustments to pay ranges during this period. Further, final pay determinations will depend on various factors, including, but not limited to geographical location, experience level, knowledge, skills and abilities. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a sign-on bonus, restricted stock units, and discretionary awards in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.
On September 30, 2021, Sandoz entered into a 5-year Corporate Integrity Agreement. Certain positions will have responsibilities to support the execution and adherence to CIA obligations, CIA-related deliverables, and any relevant audit, monitoring or Independent Review Organization (IRO) remediation.
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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!
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EEO Statement:
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
Accessibility and reasonable accommodations
Sandoz, Inc. is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an email to reasonable.accommodations@sandoz.com or call 1-609-422-4098 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.
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Salary Range
$117,500.00 - $218,300.00Skills Desired
Building Construction, Business Networking, Business Partners, Business Planning, Business Process Transformation, Business Strategy, Curiosity, Decision Tree (Forecasting Model), Diversity & Inclusion, Finance, Go-To-Market Strategy, Key Account Management, Leadership, Lean Six Sigma, Management Consulting, Scrum (Programming Methodology), Strategic Planning
