Sandoz Posted October 29, 2026

Sales Director, Biosimilar Department

Head Office (Japan), Japan Full time
Sales Director
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About this opportunity

Job Description Summary

-Senior managers in the sales function, leading sales activity for a defined product or portfolio of products. Responsible for agreed sales targets for the portfolio and managing the sales team.May be responsible for leading the sales function in a smaller country.

Job Description

Major accountabilities:  

Lead and Grow the Business -Develop, implement, and monitor a customer-centric national business plan in collaboration with FLMs and cross-functional partners to optimize the customer experience

  Key performance indicators:

To be populated at local level, based on the guidance that will follow from I Field Engagement Performance Management Council outcomes.

  Minimum Requirements:

Work Experience:

Able to understand changing dynamics of Pharmaceutical industry.

Market Knowledge and Network is desirable.

Pre-launch activities.

Sales in Healthcare / Pharma / related business.

  Skills:

Analytical Skill.

Change Management.

Coaching.

Collaboration.

Commercial Excellence.

Complexity Management.

Compliance.

Ethics.

Financial Literacy.

Healthcare Sector.

Influencing Skills.

Leadership.

Management.

Mentorship.

Problem Solving Skills.

Professional Communication.

Team Work.

  Languages :

English.

Skills Desired

Job details

Seniority
Director
Function
Sales
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Head Office (Japan), Japan
Employment type
Full time

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Sales role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 90 comparable Director Sales roles across 37 biopharma companies.

90Comparable roles tracked
84Currently active
37Companies hiring similar roles
14Countries represented

Salary context

37 of 90 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.

This roleSubject Not listed on this posting
Lowest disclosed · Strategic Account Director-Nationwide · IQVIA $230/yr – $250,000/yr
Peer group range $125,115 – $301,500 (median $235,853)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 90 comparable roles

United States76
Canada2
South Korea1
Chile1
United Arab Emirates1
Switzerland1

+ 8 more countries

Seniority mix

90 of 90 peers have a known seniority level

Director85
Senior Director5

Therapeutic area mix

19 of 90 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Rare Disease6
Oncology6
Respiratory2
Immunology2
Neuroscience1
Dermatology & Aesthetics1
Gastroenterology1

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The closest matches from our peer group, ranked by how similar they are, not how well you'd qualify for them -- treat this as market context, not a guaranteed shortlist; a weak match is labeled as one below.

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How we calculate "similar"

No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.

Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.

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Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
45%
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Unmatched or unknown dimensions score exactly the same: 0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.