Job Description Summary

-The Project Manager is responsible for leading the end-to-end delivery of medium to large-scale technology projects, ensuring solutions are delivered on time, within budget, and aligned with business objectives. The role coordinates cross-functional teams, external partners, and key stakeholders while driving project governance, risk management, stakeholder communications, and issue resolution. The Project Manager oversees all phases of project delivery, including planning, testing, deployment, cutover, and hyper care, ensuring successful business adoption and a smooth transition to operations. The role requires experience delivering SAP ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA projects, including Finance processes, integrations, data migration, and global deployments.

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!

Job Summary

The Project Manager is responsible for leading the end-to-end delivery of medium to large-scale technology projects, ensuring solutions are delivered on time, within budget, and aligned with business objectives. The role coordinates cross-functional teams, external partners, and key stakeholders while driving project governance, risk management, stakeholder communications, and issue resolution. The Project Manager oversees all phases of project delivery, including planning, testing, deployment, cutover, and hyper care, ensuring successful business adoption and a smooth transition to operations. The role requires experience delivering SAP ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA projects, including Finance processes, integrations, data migration, and global deployments.

Your Key Responsibilities:  

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:  

• Manage the end-to-end delivery of internal and outsourced projects, ensuring successful execution from project initiation through deployment, hyper care, and transition to operations.

• Lead cross-functional project teams, vendors, and implementation partners, maintaining accountability for scope, schedule, budget, quality, risks, and overall delivery outcomes.

• Drive effective project governance, including stakeholder management, status reporting, decision tracking, risk and issue management, dependency management, and escalation handling.

• Coordinate all project phases, including requirements validation, design, testing, data migration, cutover planning, deployment, and business readiness activities.

• Ensure alignment with project management methodologies, organizational standards, security and compliance requirements, and SAP delivery best practices, as required.

 

What you’ll bring to the role:  

Essential Requirements:  

• Proven experience managing medium to large-scale IT financial projects in global, multi-country environments.

• Experience leading cross-functional and geographically distributed teams, including external system integrators and consulting partners.

• Strong project financial management experience, including budgeting, forecasting, and vendor management.

• Demonstrated experience managing project risks, stakeholder expectations, organizational change, and complex delivery challenges.

• Demonstrated knowledge of SAP implementation processes, including design, build, testing, deployment, cutover, hypercare, and transition to support.

• Fluent English language

What you’ll receive:

• Monthly pension contribution matching your individual contribution up to 3% of your gross monthly base salary

• Risk Life Insurance

• 5-week holiday per year (1 week above the Labor Law requirement)

• Cafeteria employee benefit program – choice of benefits from Benefit Plus CZ in the amount of 12,000 CZK per year

• Meal vouchers in amount of 120 CZK for each working day (full tax covered by company)

• Multisport Card

• Premium Health Care Program

• Car allowance

Why Sandoz? 

Sandoz is the global leader in Biosimilar and Generic medicines, a segment of the healthcare industry that delivers 80% of the world’s medicines at 30% of the cost, touching the lives of more than 1 billion people across 100+ countries! While we are proud of our achievements, we have an ambition to do more so that everyone can achieve the basic human right of good health. 

With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help even more people 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 careers, where diversity of thought is welcomed and where personal growth is supported!  

  

Join us, help us make healthcare fairer and faster.  

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. 

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Skills Desired

Change Management, Decision Making Skills, Project Finance, Project Risk Management, Project Team Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Waterfall Project Management