Project Manager - Sanofi Manufacturing System

Job title: Project Manager - Sanofi Manufacturing System

• Location: Hyderabad
• % of travel expected: 5%
• Job type: Permanent

About the job

Our Team:

Sanofi is a global life sciences company committed to improving access to healthcare and supporting the people we serve throughout the continuum of care. From prevention to treatment, Sanofi transforms scientific innovation into healthcare solutions, in human vaccines, rare diseases, multiple sclerosis, oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, diabetes and cardiovascular solutions.

As a company with a global vision of drug development and a highly regarded corporate culture, Sanofi is recognized as one of the best pharmaceutical companies in the world and is pioneering the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with strong commitment to develop advanced data products to increase reusability & interoperability and thus accelerate impact on global health.

The Global M&S Services acts as a cornerstone to this effort. Our team is responsible for delivering and supporting Global M&S teams in partnership with Business and Digital, and drive priority and transformative initiatives across M&S. The team members of Global M&S Services Hubs will act as partners in carrying out tasks and fulfilling responsibilities to support global project management from the hubs.

Our Sanofi Manufacturing System:

Getting prepared for a successful future demands cutting-edge manufacturing, robust organization and processes, new skills and new ways of thinking. Continuous problem solving skills, data driven mindset, inspiring leadership and agility are key capabilities needed to deliver our Play To Win strategy. To meet these challenges, Sanofi Manufacturing & Supply build a unique production system leveraging Lean and Digital, called the Sanofi Manufacturing System, reflecting the company's mindset, culture, and industrial heritage. The Sanofi Manufacturing System evolved constantly and is moving towards the Factory 4.0

SMS 2.0 is a Sanofi-wide effort to design, implement, and sustain a second-generation Sanofi production system, with an objective to reach world class manufacturing performance across the Manufacturing & Supply network.

The PMO of SMS 2.0 Program offers standardized tools, templates, and methodologies that project leader can use to plan, execute, and monitor the program efficiently.

The PMO acts as a center of excellence, offering expert advice and guidance on best practices, risk management, and problem-solving.

Main responsibilities:

• Support SMS 2.0 program Lead for global program coordination and ensure coordination and alignment with Connected Smart Factories program

• Support ecosystem leaders for creation, coordination, and animation of Community of Excellence with a consistent approach for Community of Excellence (Global / GBU / sites)

• Consolidate yearly roadmap in the frame of the Budget and StratPlan

• Consolidate and tracks Quarterly TIP actions

• Coordinate planning for Maturity assessments and Consolidate Maturity assessment scores into PowerBI

• Propose and coordinate planning, meetings and different events proposed program and ecosystem leaders

• Identify, consolidate, monitor & follow up action plan

• Contribute to KPIs delivery (at program Level) to measure program success

• Ensure regular & ad’hoc reporting (e.g. via dashboards) on deployment, Tool usage, Community of Excellence and potential specific Budget & Resources monitoring of dedicated initiative lead in the frame of the programs.

• Contribute to setting (& tracking) the ambition for the certification of the community in alignment with global M&S aspiration; is in charge to identify opportunity to constantly optimize the process based on learnings from the SMS community

• Support Onboarding and training for new ecosystem leaders and transformations leaders

• Contribute in the establishment of community of Transformation Leaders & Ecosystem Leaders to ensure that standards are well understood and applied

• Contribute to the communication of SMS 2.0 (Best practices, success stories…)

About you

• Experience:
  • Master’s degree in Life Sciences or business operation
  • Experience in the Biological, chemical or pharmaceutical industry (3-5 years) is a plus
  • Demonstrated ability to drive initiatives from concept to execution
  • Good functional knowledge on industrial business processes is a plus

• Skills:
  • Basic or good understanding of data management and M&S digital products.
  • Experience in Lean Six Sigma methodologies (Yellow Belt, Green Belt) with some practical application to a real-world context is a plus
  • Leadership / conviction /Strong communication skills.
  • Engages and leverages everyone’s strengths while being highly self-aware.
  • Strong analytical skills. Decision making by analyzing current and future scenarios, disrupts the status quo with innovation, while remaining pragmatic and focused on priorities.
  • Able to lead / animate networks, teams, experts.
  • High level of autonomy. Executes, is comfortable with ambiguity, ​and adapts with agility. Takes calculated risks and anticipates potential issues.
  • Inspires trust through empathy and authenticity. Empowers and recognizes others to create powerful relationships and networks.
  • Encourages the teams to stretch and do things differently
  • Sets a clear context and creates space for the teams to take action.
  • Makes sure the teams understands how to act for patients and customers.
  • Approaches the role with humility and thinks Sanofi first.
  • Act for Change : ability to shape a technological / operations vision, influence and engage leadership and project team.
  • Strive for Results: stretched ambition and take action
  • Cooperate transversally / ability to manage ambiguity and partners without solid reporting lines
  • Commit to Patients and full product quality

• Languages:
  • Fluent English

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But 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. So, let’s be those people.

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

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!