PMO & Launch Lead Vaccines UKIE

Job Title: PMO & Launch Lead Vaccines UKIE

Location: Reading, UK

About the job

As PMO & Launch Lead Vaccines UKIE, you'll play a dual strategic role supporting the General Manager Vaccines UK&I. This position combines Chief of Staff responsibilities (75%) with Launch Excellence leadership (25%), ensuring seamless execution of our vaccines business priorities while driving launch excellence across our near-term portfolio including flu, COVID, and RSV.

Join the team protecting half a billion lives every year with next-gen science, mRNA innovation, and AI-driven breakthroughs. In Vaccines, you'll help advance prevention on a global scale - and shape the future of immunization.

About Sanofi

We're an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people's lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives.

Main responsibilities:

PMO & Chief of Staff to GM Vaccines (75%)

• Partner closely with the GM Vaccines to manage GBU priorities, facilitate governance, and act as strategic interface across the Vaccines Leadership Team and broader organization

• Drive Vaccines GBU governance including Leadership Team meetings, offsites, townhalls, and franchise reviews with agenda management, action tracking, and briefing coordination

• Lead strategic project management for critical GBU initiatives, leveraging cross-functional resources and ensuring alignment with business priorities

• Leverage and embed agile principles, project management, and ways of working across the vaccines GBU for operational excellence

• Monitor strategic roadmap execution through KPI tracking and performance management

• Serve as point of entry for company-wide projects, connecting stakeholders and ensuring GBU input

• Manage confidential information with discretion and navigate strategic matters with appropriate sensitivity

Launch Excellence Lead (25%)

• Leverage SILC (Sanofi Integrated Launch Capability) framework at local level to support flu, COVID, and RSV near-term launches

• Establish launch governance and change management processes, ensuring deep understanding of launch excellence best practices across teams

• Support brand teams and track core launch activities, ensuring must-do deliverables are completed on time

• Develop risk mitigation plans and manage launch-related issues

Ethical & Safety Leadership

• Maintain knowledge of ethics and governance relevant to the role (Industry Code of Practice, Sanofi Policies, legal requirements)

• Care for own safety and wellbeing and the safety of others, conforming to Company safety rules and procedures

About you

Main Requirements:

Experience: Pharmaceutical/Vaccines industry experience with progressive responsibility in PMO, strategic project management, or Chief of Staff roles; launch experience in vaccines or specialty care; proven ability to lead through influence in matrix environments

Skills: Strong PMO and planning capabilities with ability to lead complex programs at pace (PMO certification preferred); excellent problem-solving, analytical and strategic thinking; strong communication and presentation skills at management level; high resilience and ability to thrive in ambiguity; self-awareness and versatility for upwards and sideways influence; ability to manage confidential information; demonstrated cross-functional collaboration and bridge-building; solution-oriented and pragmatic mindset; comfortable embracing digital and technological advances

Education: Advanced degree in Life Sciences, Medicine, Pharmacy, Business Administration, or related field

Languages: Fluent English required

Why choose us?

• Work at the forefront of AI-driven research, smart manufacturing, and groundbreaking mRNA platforms that are redefining the future of immunology

• Help protect half a billion people every year, contributing to one of the largest global vaccination efforts in healthcare

• Develop your career with access to mentoring, international mobility programs, and opportunities to grow across four continents

• Play a pivotal role in shaping vaccines strategy and launch excellence in the UK&I market

• Join a workplace where diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core, with Employee Resource Groups and leadership programs that celebrate every voice

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