Project Manager - Support Program Management

Job title: Project Manager – Support program management

• Hiring Manager: Project Lead

·       Location: Hyderabad

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

·       Job type: Permanent and Full time

About the job

Our Team:

Sanofi Business Operations (SBO) 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 Business Operations (SBO) strives to be a strategic and functional partner for tactical deliveries to Medical, HEVA, and Commercial organizations​ in Sanofi, globally.

The Sanofi Business Operations (SBO) is built to reduce reliance on external services providers and facilitate the development of internal expertise. The Sanofi Business Operations will leverage untapped combination of talent pool.

Main responsibilities:

Project Manager - support program management liaises with the relevant Business Partners, local team member and relevant stakeholders to ensure the below main responsibilities:

The team liaises with Specialty care GBU to ensure Management of budget including PO and WBS creation with follow up and budget tactics update, vendor follow up, therapeutics area activities like tactics and priorities tracking, coordinate for Privacy data management, SharePoint site creation and maintenance along with Internal calendar maintenance to track congress, events, internal meetings.

Project Management:

• Initiation & Planning

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• Execution

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• Monitoring & Controlling

• Track project performance using KPIs and metrics while managing changes to scope, schedule, and resources. Resolve issues, conduct regular status meetings, and ensure compliance with all internal and external standards.

• Closure

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• Budget Management:

• PO and WBS - the hub project manager will be responsible for creating and managing updates of all PO and WBS requests as per the Sanofi process, and prioritize based on the business needs; they will work closely with the Medical Program Management (MPM) to update the budget tools

• Budget tactics updates - the hub project manager will collaborate with the specific Therapeutic Area (TA) MPM Team, TA Medical team and Vendor/Agencies to track budget metrics changes, also following PO and WBS amendments

• Ad hoc - The hub project manager will perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned

TA activities and priorities:

• Tactics and Priorities tracking - Following the tracking of projects for budget purposes, the Hub project manager will work closely with the TA specific Medical and MPM Teams to collaborate to the management of the status tracking of the tactics and priorities (set by the Medical Plan and actualized in the Budget)

• Privacy data - The hub project manager will work closely with the Medical and MPM team on project-related Privacy information and tools, in collaboration with the Global Data Protection Operations Department

• Annual Budgeting Plan (ABP) - Following the tracking of projects for budget purposes, the hub project manager will work closely with the TA specific Medical and MPM Teams to collaborate to the management and organization of the ABP process, being responsible of following a very detailed governance to track team progresses in developing ABP content, collecting ABP drafts and facilitating discussions with Legal and Compliance for their approval.  The hub project manager will also be responsible of the management of the amendments of the ABPs throughout the year

• Internal Calendar - The hub project manager will work closely with the TA specific Medical and MPM Teams to implement and manage an omni comprehensive Team Calendar, to track Congresses, Events, SRCs, Internal Meetings and ad hoc

• Share Point site - The hub project manager will work closely with the TA specific Medical and MPM Teams to restructure, reorganize and maintain the Team’s Share Point site

• Project Support: coordinating with vendors for data sets, engaging with external stakeholders as needed, communicating with the hubs and global team as per project’s need.

• Ad hoc - The hub project manager will perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned

Medical Evidence Generation support:

• The Project Manager will play a pivotal role in supporting the Medical Evidence Generation function within Sanofi's Innovation & Transformation team, ensuring seamless execution of strategic and operational activities across the evidence lifecycle.

• Lead and coordinate Key Opinion Leader (KOL) and Digital Opinion Leader (DOL) mapping initiatives in alignment with global and regional congress strategies

• Maintain and manage a dynamic stakeholder intelligence repository, ensuring timely tracking of engagement activities, follow-up actions, and relationship milestones

• Facilitate high-quality cross-functional meetings, including preparation of structured agendas, documentation of Minutes of Meetings (MOMs), and ownership of action item follow-through

• Design and execute multi-country surveys to capture field insights, unmet needs, and emerging trends relevant to medical evidence priorities

• Synthesize and analyze complex datasets to generate actionable insights, translating findings into clear, decision-ready outputs for senior stakeholders

• Contribute to the development and dissemination of medical newsletters and support the ideation and execution of innovation-driven initiatives within the Medical Evidence Generation team

• Ad hoc - The hub project manager will perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned

• Miscellaneous:

• Other activities - The hub project manager will help with miscellaneous TA specific activities, as needed.

Performance: (1) Effective and efficient management of assigned projects to complete projects on time

Process: Governance processes to be defined and finalized before starting date, and used as metrics for the onboarding process

Stakeholders: (1) Identify and Align with key stakeholders for PO creation and Budget and metrics management 2) Liaise with relevant stakeholder for assigned task. 

About you

Experience: 10 to 12+ years of experience in pharma/life-science companies with project management and finance/ budget tracking skills

Stakeholders: (1) Identify and Align with key stakeholders for PO creation and Budget and metrics management 2) Liaise with relevant stakeholder for assigned task

Technical skills: Proficient with Microsoft Office (i.e., Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, and Outlook), Smartsheet, proven experience in BI dashboards, infographics, analytics, and related capabilities.

Education: Bachelor/ Master’s degree required – life sciences, PMP certification is must.

Languages: Excellent knowledge of English language (verbal and written)

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