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Domain Product Owner – Planning & Purchasing ATHENA PLATFORM
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Early Careers at Sanofi aren’t just about landing a role – they’re about starting a journey that stretches you from day one. You’ll dive into projects that matter, surrounded by people who challenge, mentor, and inspire you to explore more every step of the way.
Here, you can navigate paths across science, digital, manufacturing, and business – following your curiosity, growing your expertise, and building skills for tomorrow.
With AI-powered tools, world-class learning, and a culture rooted in collaboration, we give you the opportunity to develop your expertise and transform our future.
Domain Product Owner – Planning & Purchasing ATHENA PLATFORM
- Location: Barcelona
About the job
Our Team:
Sanofi is hiring key contributors to onboard Sanofi Digital transformation journey and to transform its worldwide SAP footprint. SAP Athena is considered as the most critical asset to operate the Sanofi industrial network (45 sites) and to support the industrial performance for the next decade.
The core solution consists in an SAP ERP ECC with 7 production systems integrated with more than 90 different partners, that through has that has just been migrated on SAP HANA Platform.
The SAP Domain Product Owner is a member of the Product Team that is building, supporting, maintaining, and enhancing the SAP Athena platform, with the support of Sanofi Digital-tech services and global contractors.
Main responsibilities:
We are seeking a skilled and experienced SAP Product Owner Planning & Purchasing to join our product team. You will play a vital role in providing expert guidance and act as a technical solution guardian.
Business Alignment and Value
- Help the business to understand and adopt the standard core model to generate industrial excellence.
- Facilitate the assessment and the prioritization of the new functionalities, for all Sanofi GBUs, while keeping a responsible approach in term of costs, benefits, standardization, and maintainability.
- Deliver new features and functionalities and support their deployments.
Product foundations and Business continuity
- In charge of the functional and technical design of the solution for the SAP Quality domain, leveraging the technological and methodological assets of our SAP platforms.
- Support the lifecycle of the solution, for his/her domain, in collaboration with our global contracted services (incident escalation, evolutive and corrective maintenance).
- Support the integration with the other partner systems, related to the Planning and Purchasing domains such as analytics tools, global Demand management tools, Detailed Scheduling applications, Supplier Collaboration platform, etc.
- Ensure the design complies with Sanofi standards, GxP, Sox and cybersecurity regulations.
- Communicate architecture and technical matters in an understandable way to various stakeholders, facilitate decision making.
- Propose innovative approaches to streamline our service delivery model and efficiency.
Resources Management
- Animate a community of functional experts and business contributors around SAP Planning and Purchasing domains.
- Contribute to circulate the know-how, experience, and best practices within the Planning and Purchasing domains and beyond.
About you
Education
- Graduated from engineering, computer science, or Digital school
- Master’s degree
Experience and Skills
10+ years, Demonstrate an excellent track in best practice as SAP solution designer for the SAP Purchasing (MM) and Production Planning (PP) modules.
Significant experience of processes for manufacturing plants, pharmaceutical or life sciences industry
- General knowledge on SAP architectures and integration/interface technologies such as EAI, iDoc, Webservices, etc.
- Knowledge of pharma industry regulatory context (GxP) and computerized system validation
- At ease with Microsoft Office tools, ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence, SAP Me, and in general with IT tools.
- SAP certification is a plus
Soft skills
- Team player, Lead Together
- Be Bold
- Aim Higher
- Dynamic, results driven
- Able to convince
- Accountability and Reliability
- Rigorous, autonomous
- Proactive, excellence pursuer
Languages
- Fluent spoken and written English
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Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science - where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what’s never-been-done-before. You’ll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people’s lives? Let’s Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary – together.
At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
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Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.
Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science - where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what’s never-been-done-before. You’ll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people’s lives? Let’s Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary – together.
At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
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Why work with us
- Shape your own journey. At Sanofi, diverse perspectives fuel bold thinking – and your path is yours to define. Whether through internships or graduate programs, you’ll explore more and build the future-ready skills that take your potential to the next level.
- Grow with the best. You’ll learn from experts across science, tech, manufacturing, and business – collaborating as one team on challenging projects that stretch you.
- Be empowered by innovation. With AI-powered tools, fresh ideas, and the freedom to be curious, you’ll partner with colleagues who turn challenges into breakthroughs – and help reimagine what’s possible.
- Make an impact from day one. Your work matters. You’ll shape solutions, contribute to an inclusive, sustainable future, and experience what it means to say: This is how we Sanofi.
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"We’re transforming Early Careers at Sanofi — with a clear mission to empower the next generation of healthcare leaders with the skills of tomorrow. Here, you’ll find bold and meaningful experiences that fuel your growth, ignite your potential, and enable you to make an impact from day one."
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