Vision and Values

At Sandoz, we aspire to be the best. For us, that means more than merely making a difference: we aspire to make a world of difference in generics. Here’s how:

Our Vision

We will be the main provider of high quality, affordable medicines helping secure long-term access to healthcare for people around the world.

Worldwide, several factors - including an aging population and changing lifestyle patterns - are converging to put increasing strain on our already-beleaguered healthcare systems. This steady growth in patient needs leads in turn to ever-increasing cost pressures – a kind of “perfect storm”.
This trend offers opportunities for the generics industry, which can provide significant savings both for patients and for healthcare systems. Using generics frees up funds for new and innovative medicines.
However, some companies will fare better than others. At Sandoz, we are well positioned to be the global number one, thanks to our high quality standards, our global presence, our broad development pipeline and our technological expertise.

We will go beyond traditional generic products and bring innovative technologies and delivery systems to market, making a world of difference in generics.

Delivering a full range of traditional generic medicines is the core business of every company in the industry. At Sandoz, we go a step further, constantly seeking new ways to improve patients’ quality of life.
Our decades of experience, combined with our global development and production network, enable us to develop and manufacture the difficult-to-make generics that many other companies cannot or do not make.
We are at the forefront of bringing biosimilars to patients worldwide following the precedent-setting market launches of human growth hormone Omnitrope® and anemia medicine Binocrit®.

We will lead our industry, outperforming the market.

With our broad portfolio and leading positions in key markets, we are one of the two largest generics companies in the world.
We aim for cost leadership across the board by optimally designing our operations and building on synergies in our global development and production networks.
Our associates are empowered to act on their own initiative and actively seek opportunities to leverage savings.

We will bring the care and passion our employees have for their work to our customers, patients and communities.

Our focus is on people – our commitment to improving the global availability of affordable medicines is what makes us come to work every day.
In addition, we are committed as a company to acting responsibly in economic, social and environmental terms. We believe that doing the right thing makes good business sense.
Our social commitment reaches beyond the company. Our employees worldwide participate in and promote a wide variety of local charitable projects, and we support them in doing so.

How we live our vision at Sandoz Canada?

We will attract, develop and earn the loyalty of the best employees, customers, partners and suppliers.

We will be a true industry leader thanks to the quality and cost of our products and the excellence of our operational and business practices.

We will give our utmost by applying our values and our policy of social responsibility, making good decisions, establishing clear priorities and objectives, and encouraging innovation.

We will constantly strive to better ourselves by outpacing growth in the rest of the industry while retaining our profitability and affordable prices, emphasizing excellence and meeting our commitments.