Senior Development Project Manager (d/f/m) / Vodilni vodja razvojnih projektov (d/ž/m)

Job Description

Sandoz, of which Lek is also a part, 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 and Lek 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.

As a Senior Development Project Manager, you will be responsible for the end-to-end management of complex pharmaceutical product development projects, from early stages through to launch in key markets. This role requires a deep understanding of the development process, strategic thinking and preparation of development strategies, effective resource management, and coordination of cross-functional teams to ensure timelines, quality, and cost objectives are met.

In this position, you will assess and communicate risks and challenges and propose mitigation measures to stakeholders within the development center and global executive leadership. Join us as a Founder of our ‘new’ Sandoz and Lek!

Your Key Responsibilities

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Define and execute project strategies in alignment with portfolio goals and selection assumptions.
• Managing project teams within a matrix organization; proactively engaging stakeholders and resolving conflicts.
• Organizing regular and ad hoc project team meetings, ensuring proper documentation of agendas, minutes, and action items.
• Identifying key project risks and developing risk mitigation plans.
• Ensuring regular status reporting and escalation in accordance with governance requirements, and securing timely decision-making.
• Proactively addressing and resolving challenges.
• Sharing acquired experience and best practices with colleagues and team members.
  
  

Project Planning

• Establish project plan baselines and document assumptions.
• Compile and challenge project schedules with the project team, manage timelines through critical path analysis.
• Describe impact to timeline in scenario planning.
• Monitor completion of key development tasks through milestone comple-tion, quality gates, and stage gating processes.
• Report deviations from approved project strategies appropriately.
  
  

Managing The Project Budget

• Define and monitor the budget for direct and indirect project costs.
• Identify risks and opportunities for the project budget.
• Describe the impact that scenario planning will have on the budget.
• Report on the project budget in accordance with established Sandoz financial cycles.
• Responsibility for personal and professional development.
• Implement and comply with all instructions and requirements to ensure safe work, environmental protection, and asset security.
• Other tasks defined by the annual goal-setting discussion and performance indicators.
• Additional tasks as instructed by the supervisor and tasks based on special appointments.
  
  

What You Will Bring To The Role

• Experience in Product Development/R&D (10+ years) and in Project Management (10+ years).
• Scientific academic degree, preferably in pharmacy, chemistry or biochemistry.
• Fluent in English (speaking/writing).
• R&D understanding in the broader ecosystem.
• Proven ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with team members and executive stakeholders within matrix organization.
• Excellent presentation skills and ability to interact with senior leadership.
• Advanced skills in planning, monitoring, and adapting project plans; ability to use appropriate project and program management tools and manage multiple projects while prioritizing tasks.
• Experience working independently and mentoring other project managers.
• Skills in motivating the team to set goals and achieve result.
• Managing complexity and strategic planning through the preparation of various scenarios.
  
  

You’ll Receive

Employment at the most reputable employer in Slovenia offers Competitive salary, Annual bonus, Flexible working schedule, tailored to your needs, possibility to work from home, Pension scheme, Employee Recognition Scheme, Expanded program for the promotion of health in the field of physical, mental and social well-being (WellBeat), Unlimited learning and development opportunities.

Possible job location: Slovenia (Ljubljana)

We offer permanent contract with 6-month of probation period. You are kindly invited to submit your application in English language, including CV, by December 8, 2025.

Why Sandoz?

Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. In delivering over 900 million treatments with Sandoz medicines to patients around the world, 20,000 people of more than 100 nationalities are involved. While we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!

With investments in new development capabilities, state-of-the-art 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 and entrepreneurial spirit 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 encouraged!

The future is ours to shape!

Commitment To Diversity & Inclusion

Sandoz is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse team’s representative of the patients and communities we serve.

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Sandoz, katerega del je tudi Lek, je trenutno kot pionir in vodilni svetovni ponudnik trajnostnih generičnih in podobnih bioloških zdravil v vznemirljivem in preobrazbenem obdobju.

Kot samostojno podjetje, ki kotira na borzi, Sandoz zdaj stremi k še večji strateški osredotočenosti, agilnosti, jasnejšim poslovnim ciljem, večji donosnosti za delničarje in krepitvi svoje kulture za vse nas, sodelavce in sodelavke v Sandozu in Leku. To je vznemirljivo obdobje v naši zgodovini, ki nam bo vsem z ustvarjanjem nove in ambiciozne poti, nudila edinstveno priložnostna poklicnem in osebnem področju.

Kot Vodilni vodja razvojnih projektov boste odgovorni za celovito vodenje kompleksnih razvojnih projektov farmacevtskih izdelkov od zgodnjih faz do lansiranja na ključnih trg. Vloga zahteva poznavanje razvojnega procesa, strateško razmišljanje in pripravo razvojnih strategij, učinkovito upravljanje virov ter usklajevanje večfunkcijskih ekip, da se zagotovi doseganje ciljev glede časovnic, kakovosti in stroškov.

Kot vodja projekta boste morali oceniti in sporočati tveganja, izzive ter predlagati ukrepe za obvladovanje tveganj deležnikom znotraj razvojnega centra in globalnim izvršnim vodjem.

Vaše Ključne Odgovornosti

Vaše odgovornosti vključujejo, vendar niso omejene na:

• vodenje projektnega tima in opredeliti ter izvajati strategije projektov v skladu s projektnimi cilji;
• voditi projektne skupine znotraj matrične organizacije; proaktivno vključevanje deležnikov in reševanje zapletov;
• organizirati redna in priložnostna (ad hoc) srečanja projektnih timov, pri čemer je treba poskrbeti za ustrezno dokumentiranje dnevnega reda, zapisnikov in ukrepov;
• določiti ključna projektna tveganja in oblikovati načrte obvladovanje tveganj;
• poskrbeti za redno poročanje statusa in stopnjevanja (eskalacije) v skladu z določenimi zahtevami upravljanja ter zagotoviti pravočasno sprejemanje odločitev;
• pro-aktivno reševati in obvladovati zaplete;
• pridobljene izkušnje podeliti s kolegi in sodelavci.
  
  

Načrtovanje Projektov

• oblikovati izhodišča projektnega načrta in dokumentirati projektne predpostavke;
• s projektnim timom sestaviti časovni razpored za projekte, upravljati časovnice s pomočjo analiziranja kritične poti;
• opisati vpliv na časovnico in oblikovane scenarije;
• spremljati izvedbo ključnih razvojnih nalog znotraj definiranih projektnih mejnikov, kontrolnih točk in procesov;
• ustrezno poročati odstopanja od potrjenih strategij projekta.
  
  

Upravljanje s Predvidenim Proračunom Projekta

• določiti in nadzirati proračun za neposredne in posredne stroške projekta;
• opredeliti tveganja in priložnosti za proračun projekta;
• opisati vpliv, ki ga bo načrtovanje scenarijev imelo na proračun;
• poročati o projektnem proračunu v skladu z uveljavljenimi Sandoz finančnimi cikli;
• odgovornost za osebni in strokovni razvoj;
• izvajanje in upoštevanje vseh navodil in zahtev za zagotavljanje varnega dela, varovanja okolja in premoženja;
• ostale naloge določene z letnim pogovorom o ciljih in s kazalniki uspešnosti;
• druge naloge po navodilu nadrejenega in naloge na podlagi posebnega imenovanja.
  
  

Vaš Doprinos k Delovnem Mestu

• izkušnje na področju razvoja izdelkov/raziskav in razvoja oz. R&D (minimalno 10 let) in upravljanja s projekti (minimalno 10 let);
• diploma s področja naravoslovja, zaželena je izobrazba s področja farmacije, kemije ali biokemije;
• aktivno znanje angleškega jezika (pisno in ustno);
• razumevanje področja raziskav in razvoja;
• dokazana sposobnost učinkovite komunikacije in sodelovanja s člani tima ter vodstvom v matrični organizaciji;
• odlične prezentacijske sposobnosti in interakcije z višjim vodstvom;
• napredne veščine načrtovanja, spremljanja in prilagajanja projektnega načrta, sposobnost uporabe ustreznih orodij za upravljanje projektov in programov ter zmožnost vodenja več projektov ob upoštevanju prioritet;
• izkušnje s samostojnim delom in mentorstvom drugih projektnih vodij;
• veščine spodbujanja ekipe za postavljanje ciljev in doseganje rezultatov;
• obvladovanje kompleksnosti in strateško planiranje s pripravo različnih scenarijev.
  
  

Kaj Nudimo

Zaposlitev pri najuglednejšem delodajalcu v Sloveniji vam prinaša konkurenčen plačni paket, letni bonus, fleksibilen način dela z možnostjo prilagajanja urnika in delom od doma, pokojninsko shemo, shemo nagrajevanja in priznanja dosežkov, razširjeni program promocije zdravja na področju telesnega, duševnega in družbenega počutja (DobroBit) ter dogodke, neomejene priložnosti za učenje in razvoj.

Možna lokacija dela: Slovenija (Ljubljana)

Z izbranim kandidatom bomo sklenili delovno razmerje za nedoločen čas s poskusno dobo 6 mesecev.

Prijave z življenjepisom v angleškem in slovenskem jeziku lahko oddate najkasneje do 8. 12. 2025 prek spletne povezave.

Zakaj Sandoz in Lek?

Generična in podobna biološka zdravila so hrbtenica svetovne industrije zdravil. Pri zagotavljanju več kot 900 milijonov terapij s Sandozevimi zdravili bolnikom po vsem svetu, sodeluje 20.000 ljudi več kot 100 narodnosti. Na ta dosežek smo ponosni, a si želimo še več!

Z naložbami v nove razvojne zmogljivosti, najsodobnejše proizvodne lokacije, nove pridobitve in partnerstva imamo priložnost oblikovati prihodnost Sandoza in Leka ter še večjemu številu bolnikov omogočiti trajnostni dostop do cenovno ugodnih in visokokakovostnih zdravil.

Naša zagon in podjetniški duh temeljita na odprti kulturi sodelovanja, katere srce so naši talentirani in ambiciozni sodelavci ter sodelavke. V okolju, kjer je raznolikost dobrodošla in kjer se spodbuja osebna rast, imajo v zameno za uporabo svojih znanj, možnost v celoti izkusiti delo v agilnem in povezovalnem okolju in z možnostjo fleksibilnega in hibridnega dela razvijati svojo kariero.

Prihodnost je v naših rokah!

Predani Smo Raznolikosti In Vključenosti

Sandoz se zavzema za raznolikost, enake možnosti in vključenost. Prizadevamo si za oblikovanje raznolikih timov, saj ti predstavljajo naše bolnike in skupnosti, ki jih oskrbujemo.

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