Team Lead - Project Manager

Job Title: Team Lead - Project Manager

• Location: Bogotá, Colombia

About the job

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Sanofi Integrated Launch Capabilities (SILC) is the global team dedicated to improving the quality and speed of Sanofi launches. SILC brings together Strategic Launch Partnerships, Strategy & Operations, Transformation, Change Management & Communications, and Commercialization Excellence, working closely with Global Business Units, Digital teams, and local affiliates worldwide.

About the role

As a Team Lead - Project Manager, you will play a critical leadership role within SILC, combining people leadership, project execution, and operational excellence. You will lead and develop a team of Project Managers and Associate Project Managers while ensuring the successful delivery of strategic initiatives across the organization.

You will translate strategic priorities into actionable plans, establish clear governance and accountability, and create visibility on progress, risks, and outcomes. Working in a highly matrixed global environment, you will align stakeholders, drive execution, and enable your team to deliver results that have a direct impact on launch excellence across Sanofi.

This position requires a strong leader who can inspire and develop talent, foster collaboration, and ensure consistent project management standards and ways of working across a portfolio of initiatives.

Main responsibilities:

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Project Managers and Associate Project Managers, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment.
• Oversee the planning and execution of projects, ensuring clear priorities, timelines, risks, and deliverables.
• Partner with stakeholders across global teams to align objectives, facilitate decision-making, and drive project progress.
• Establish and maintain project governance, reporting, and performance tracking to provide visibility on outcomes and priorities.
• Support resource planning, workload balancing, and capability development across the team.
• Drive continuous improvement by implementing consistent project management practices and operational processes.
• Prepare and deliver updates, presentations, and insights for leadership and key stakeholders.

About you

• Experience:
  • Experience as a people manager with direct reports, leading team performance, development, and delivery in a complex, global matrix organization.
  • Strong project management skills, with experience in planning, governance, risk management, and reporting.
• Soft and technical skills:
  • Proven ability to work effectively in a team oriented environment, across cultures, functions and time zones.
  • Demonstrated organizational skills, ability to prioritize autonomously, and to keep the overview without losing the detail.
  • Excellent presentation and collaboration skills. Experience in pharma or life sciences, and exposure to product launches, is an advantage.
  • Proactive thinking and engaging presence, comfortable following up with and challenging senior stakeholders when a date is at risk.
  • Clear written and spoken communication, empathy, and the judgement to know what to escalate and what to solve.
  • Reliability, independence and strong attention to detail, with the ability to stay composed under pressure.

• Education: College or university graduate. A certification in project management, for example PMP, PRINCE2 or Agile, is preferable.
• Languages: C1 English is a must, both written and spoken.

Why choose us?

• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
• You’ll be part of leading the first experiences a job seeker has with Sanofi and ensuring it is best-in-class and driving conversions.
• You’ll be part of a truly diverse cross-cultural team and can have real business impact.
• Flexible working policies, including up to 50% remote work.
• Private medical care, life and health insurance, and gender-neutral paid parental leave
• Colombia is one of Sanofi’s key locations for new talents, having a big footprint with the Bogota HUB and its best-in-class operation.
• Mexico and Argentina Play an instrumental part in creating best practice and innovation within our 3 vaccines production plants.

PursueProgress. Discover Extraordinary.

Progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. You can be one of those people. Chasing change, embracing new ideas and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Let’s pursue progress. And let’s discover extraordinary together.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

To apply under the disability condition, it is necessary to have a certificate issued in accordance with the provisions of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection to comply with the obligations established in Law 2466 of 2025 regarding the hiring of people with disabilities.

If you require any reasonable accommodation or adjustment during the recruitment process, please inform the Talent Acquisition team. This information will be treated confidentially and will not impact your application.

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