Business Planning and Analysis Manager

**Business Planning and Analysis Manager**

110,000 people of more than 140 nationalities This amount of people works at Novartis around the world.
- A division of Novartis, Sandoz is a global leader in generic and biosimilar medicines, committed to playing a leading role in driving access to medicine worldwide.**Your key responsibilities**:
Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Ensure the operational conversion of the BPA strategic goals within a dedicated area of

the business- Provide management with accurate, relevant business analysis to support monthly

operational reviews and ad-hoc requests, and ensure timely and accurate information
- gathering- Perform analysis to evaluate risks or opportunities; make recommendations to mitigate

these risks.- Manage and provide financial analysis and decision-making support for a investment/project

in a domain- Ensure ongoing business performance is appropriately monitored and measured, and drive

early warning for re-direction of resources with Business Partners.- Provide accurate operational information and advice to support the annual budgeting,

rolling forecast and Strategic Planning processes.- Ensure integrity of data provided by commercial teams, and provides value added; provides

recommendations on forecast accuracy improvement.- Provide well managed and quality financial analysis in order to improve business case

proposals and profitability tracking.- Continually improve and streamline existing management reporting processes and support the

definition and implementation of lean processes to meet the changing demands of the
- business.- May supervise the performance and development of a small team of BPA specialists.
- Reporting of technical complaints / adverse events / special case scenarios related to

Novartis products within 24 hours of receipt- Distribution of marketing samples (where applicable) Ensure the operational conversion of the BPA strategic goals within the dedicated area of the business: act as the main finance lead of the BIO/HOSP Business Unit, owning full responsibility of their P&L

**Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion**:

- Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve._

**Minimum requirements**

**What you’ll bring to the role**:

- At least 3-4 experience in the business partnering environment
- Interest in growth within analysis, business planning,
- English and Italian: proficient
- Ability to create professional relationship with the Business

**Why Novartis?**

766 million lives were touched by Novartis medicines in 2021, and while we’re proud of this, we know there is so much more we could do to help improve and extend people’s lives.
- We believe new insights, perspectives and ground-breaking solutions can be found at the intersection of medical science and digital innovation. That a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment inspires new ways of working.
- We believe our potential can thrive and grow in an unbossed culture underpinned by integrity, curiosity and flexibility. And we can reinvent what's possible, when we collaborate with courage to aggressively and ambitiously tackle the world’s toughest medical challenges. Because the greatest risk in life, is the risk of never trying
- Imagine what you could do here at Novartis**We are Sandoz, a Novartis Division. Join us and help reimagine medicine.
**Division**
- SANDOZ

**Business Unit**
- COMMERCIAL OPS EUROPE SZ

**Country**
- Italy

**Work Location**
- Milano

**Company/Legal Entity**
- Sandoz SPA

**Functional Area**
- Audit & Finance

**Job Type**
- Full Time

**Employment Type**
- Regular

**Shift Work**
- No

**Early Talent**
- Yes