Associate Project Manager - Medical Affairs

Job title: Associate Project Manager – Medical Affairs

·       Hiring Manager: Team Lead – Projects

·       Location: Hyderabad

·       % of travel expected: Travel required as per business need

·       Job type: Permanent and Full time

About the job

Our Team:

Sanofi Hyderabad Hub is an internal Sanofi resource organization based in India and is setup to centralize processes and activities to support Specialty Care, Vaccines, General Medicines, CHC, CMO, and R&D, Data & Digital functions​. Sanofi Hyderabad Hub strives to be a strategic and functional partner for tactical deliveries to Medical, HEVA, and Commercial organizations​ in Sanofi, globally.

Main responsibilities:

The Associate Project Manager will play a crucial role in coordinating and supporting various medical activities across multiple countries and regions. They will be responsible for ensuring effective communication, collaboration, and execution of medical plans and initiatives.

This includes but is not limited to the following:

• The Project Manager will work on a project basis. He/she will be responsible for providing Therapeutic Area (TA) workstream leads with administrative support on pre-defined projects. The Associate Project Manager will set and develop the operational aspects of the project, develop, and monitor timelines, milestones and project metrics and is responsible for managing the projects from an operational perspective from the development and initiation phases through collaboration/coordination to  implementation and completion within scope provided by Stakeholders who remains responsible and accountable for the project content.
• Initiation, initial completion of operational core documents/materials, and follow up of overall projects timelines to ensure the projects move to the next step in a timely manner.
• Perform pre-defined key tasks on the projects/Medical Events/Internal events to support the team and ensure the projects move forward, such as: create or ensure the required documents are completed on and move through the approval steps in a timely manner; when applicable, enter the documents/information on the relevant platform ;ensure follow-up with countries/local  team and develop/fill the needed documents from the Stakeholders, ensure the projects move in the systems (vendor onboarding, new projects with vendors or consulting agreements, payment); follow-up on  contract and invoice status; draft emails from templates, format documents (e.g. agendas, slides, …)

·       People: 1. Ensure alignment among team members and stakeholders regarding the objectives and updating the metrics periodically. 2. Frequent communication with all stakeholders, including sponsors, partners, and attendees. 3. Support team initiatives and objectives, identify and recommend process improvements and other value-added initiatives. Being a Change Ambassador: Champion a culture of change by supporting stakeholders to embrace changes and adopt new WoW.

·       Performance: 1. Effective and efficient management of assigned projects to complete projects on time and, where applicable, on budget. 2. Effective management of multiple projects in parallel.

·       Process: 1. Develop strong understanding of the ways of working of medical team along with other functional teams and associated deliverables meeting stakeholder expectations. 2. Drive effective collaboration with stakeholders to understand their requirements and to propose solutions in-line with their expectations. 3. Responsible for project planning, executing and closure on time, within scope, and according to plan within the requested quality specifications. 4. Uses broad knowledge of project management techniques and methods, and discernment to decide the most appropriate techniques and methods for each project. 5. Drives project governance meetings with various stakeholders, vendors, logistics and digital team etc. and execute effective coordination to track and monitor the progress of the projects. 6.Ability to work independently to deliver on the assigned tasks with ownership and delivering as per the requirements.

·       Stakeholders: Builds and maintains solid partnerships with assigned internal stakeholders to better develop, coordinate, direct, and facilitate internal work and communications.

About you

·       Experience: 5-7 years of relevant experience in project management within pharmaceutical industry.

·       Soft skills: Strong interpersonal and Influencing skills, Good Analytical and communication skills, change management skills, Collaborative teamwork, and adaptability.

• Technical skills: MS office (including Teams, SharePoint), project management tools such as Smartsheet, Power BI
• Education: Graduate/postgraduate
• Languages: High proficiency in written and spoken English

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