Manufacturing and Supply
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Performance and Operations Support
At a glance
Our teams produce and deliver over 4 billion units of medicines and vaccines every year, ensuring every breakthrough gets to the people who need it most.
Our state-of-the-art facilities, AI-powered smart factories, and cutting-edge automation are redefining what’s possible: ensuring treatments reach patients faster, safer, and more sustainably than ever before. This is where your skills, ambition, and passion can shape the future of healthcare.
- Title: Performance and Operations Support
- Location: Bucharest, Romania
- Hiring Manager: Dorina Prioteasa
- Job Type: Indefinite, full-time
About the job
Support CSE MCO markets supply chain activities, to ensure a high performing business running as efficiently, compliant and under a high level of control. These activities are focused on performance KPIs and other reporting and analytics, local projects, various activities such as cost control or problem solving and collaboration with other functions.
Key Accountabilities
IBP and Performance analytics, reporting and support
- Ensure a comprehensive set of performance indicators for the Supply Chain area, securing their relevance and alignment with strategic objectives.
- Work on accuracy across all platforms, including Kinaxis, Sceye, Plai, Tm1, CEP SAP, and local dashboards in collaboration with the teams.Continuous improvement of Supply Chain activities
- Build and support on setting action plans and follow-up on actions to build stronger tools, processes and upskill capabilities within the team
- support building custom reports and dashboards to communicate insights and trends to key stakeholders, focused on root cause analyses. Develop and implement scripts, macros, and other automated solutions to simplify repetitive and time-consuming tasks;
- Partake in internal and external reporting, data extraction and process descriptions/ documentation the reporting process,
- support in collaboration with local teams, central teams (such as regional teams and the PBEx Team) the agreed roadmap of projects and continuous improvementsCompliance, related to several elements
- Good Distribution Practice (“GDP”): Working closely with the local teams to ensure compliance with local and global requirements in Quality and compliance topics.
- Internal Control: Working with stakeholders and proactively ensuring compliance with internal control topics, such as Demand-to-cash and the Internal Control guidelines.External Audit and reporting: Working with Quality, Finance and other stakeholders to build a proactive approach to audits
Business Continuity Planning
Partake with the Head of Pharma Supply Chain to build or support solid Business Continuity Planning, to ensure that key risks are addressed in processes, training and back-up plansCost control, analytics and support
- Support the Budget process of Supply Chain
- Majority of Markets Supply Chain Activity in CSE MCO is performed by 3rd part logistics providers and forwarders. In order to ensure that the 3PLs are managed in terms of cost and service, the Performance and Operations Support work closely with the Supply Chain Markets Heads to track cost and activity, and benchmark versus the agreed contract. This includes supporting for raising Purchase Orders.
As well this role work with Finance and SBS/Business Operations to ensure budgets are adhered to, and action plans are set.Training and management of Quality tools
- Be the lead on QualiPSO (Sanofi Quality tool), to review existing working instructions and supporting documents, ensuring they are reviewed, valid and followed
- Raise Quality Deviations and Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPAs) and collaborate on action follow-upAd Hoc - Support various initiatives as they arise
Skills/Expertise/Experience:
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university;
Relevant experience in the supply chain (min 3 years)
Advanced English language skills (B2 level) & digital competencies
Advanced MSOffice, Power BI, Project management (recommended)
Preferred Skills/Expertise/Experience:
Knowledge of pharmaceutical environment
Understanding of supply chain E2E processes and ability to apply changes/ transformation/ continuous improvement initiatives
Basic knowledge of regulatory processes and requirements
Skilled in dealing with multiple concurrent projects/tasks and strong analytical mindset
Strong willingness to drive change, excellent communication skills, flexible, easy to adapt to new situations and problem-solving mindset
Excellent systems (SAP and Kinaxis) skills and basic understanding of financial function
Demonstrated high standards of integrity, professionalism, and commitment
Good team facilitation and relationship building skills
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.
Why choose us?
· Join a leading pharmaceutical company and contribute to improving health outcomes worldwide.
· Be part of a company at the forefront of medical research and breakthrough therapies.
· Thrive in an environment that values diversity of thought and background.
· Work closely with global and local teams, gaining exposure to various aspects of the pharmaceutical business.
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- We’re problem-solvers and pioneers. United by the belief that everyone deserves a healthier future. We create best-in-class vaccines that prevent disease and protect lives.
- Innovation drives us. From AI and mRNA to next-gen science, we push the boundaries to deliver first- and best-in-class vaccines for infectious diseases worldwide.
- Growth happens here. With bold investments in R&D and world-class facilities, Sanofians across the entire vaccine lifecycle are shaping the future of global health.
- We do what’s right. Sustainability and DE&I drive our positive global impact—because the diverse communities Sanofians represent are the patients we serve.
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