Project Manager - Supplier Excellence Programs

Job title : Project Manager - Supplier Excellence Programs

• Location: Hyderabad
• % of travel expected: 15%
• 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 MS Services acts as a cornerstone to this effort. Our team is responsible for delivering and supporting Global MS teams in partnership with Business and Digital, and drive priority and transformative initiatives across MS. The team members of Global MS Services Hubs will act as partners in carrying out tasks and fulfilling responsibilities to support global project management from the hubs.

Supplier Excellence:

Supplier Excellence is accountable of all initiatives (including some programs) related to external spend impacting Sanofi sites performances.

Project management activities are progressed by a Project Manager, member of the Supplier Excellence Team. Due to the transversal (Cross GBU and Function) approach of these activities and the several interactions with multiple Suppliers a Project Management Office is needed.

Main responsibilities:

• Supplier Excellence is accountable of all initiatives (including some programs) related to external spend impacting Sanofi sites performances.
• Support for ideation and evaluation of value-creation initiatives (including the Collaborate to Win Program) in the domain of external spend
• Data collection and Analysis of information recovered at a manufacturing center level on yield losses, down-times and line stoppages, rejects and ejects and more generally performance losses impacting financial PL (Profit Losses) (including claims management).
• Support preparation of Gemba walk and Problem-Solving session to identify the most relevant opportunities related to external spend.
• Support the Supplier Excellence Team for global initiatives coordination.
• Support Supplier Excellence Team members for creation, coordination, and execution of TIP (Tactical Implementation Plan) and RoadMap
• Support the coordination across Archetype to set-up a consistent approach (Global / GBU / sites)
• Propose and plan meetings and different events proposed by Supplier Excellence Team.
• Support task and action planning, with relevant monitoring follow up meetings.
• Ensure regular ad hoc reporting (e.g. via scorecards dashboards) by means of specific management tools

About you

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

• Skills:
  • Basic Knowledge of key financial principles applied to a real-world context.
  • Basic Knowledge of Pharmaceutical Quality Systems applied to a real-world context.
  • Basic education to Lean Six Sigma methodologies (Yellow Belt, Green Belt is a plus) with some practical application to a real-world context is a plus
  • Experience in project launching and team working with an efficient communication.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Having a SCRUM/PMP certification is a plus.

• Languages:
  • Fluent English
  • Spoken French is a plus

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.

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