
R&D
Where your curiosity drives the
miracles of
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R&D Project Manager
At a glance
Bring your curiosity to a team where deep immunoscience meets cutting-edge innovation. Across oncology, rare diseases, neurology, and vaccines, you’ll work at the intersection of lab science and AI-powered discovery — all while collaborating across boundaries to turn breakthrough ideas into real-world impact. Whether you want to deepen your scientific expertise or grow as a leader, you’ll find the opportunity here.
- Job title: R&D Hub Project Manager
- Location: Budapest, Hungary
- Job type: Permanent, full-time
- Hybrid working with 60% office, 40% home
About the job
Are you ready to shape the future of medicine? The race is on to speed up drug discovery and development to find answers for patients and their families. Your skills could be critical in helping our teams accelerate progress.
We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?
Join Sanofi’s Global Hub (SGH) internal resource organization to centralize processes and activities to support Specialty Care, Vaccines, General Medicines, CHC, CMO, and R&D, Data & Digital functions.
We are a team of Project Leaders and Managers with the ambition to operationalize critical R&D processes to streamline the management of our Projects and support our Portfolio. We implement dynamic and efficient solutions for the R&D organization to address current gaps and pain points for end-to-end R&D processes, governance processes and governance committees’ ways of working, as well as build strategic workforce and capabilities and drive best practice sharing, transparency, and communication.
Main responsibilities:
As a Project Manager you will support the management of key initiatives in R&D, articulating the strategy of the project and its execution, also support Project Leaders to drive projects through the design, delivery and implementation ensuring effectiveness is measured. The Project Manager articulates activities across core team members, identifies risks and mitigation plans, and manages variances in timing, resources/budget, and ensures project quality.
Ensure execution of project plan and roadmap within expected timelines, making sure that team members are aligned to deliver on project plans. Provide concise updates on status of project including timelines and budget.
Communicate project vision as needed and establishes trust within the project team and functional departments.
Ensure communication to all stakeholders, including regions, functions and platforms as needed. This includes project reports and timely alerts.
Manage stakeholders by ensuring communication to departmental management on issues related to their deliverables and/or responsibilities.
Identify issues to be raised with Project Leader and proposes solutions and mitigation plans.
Act as key connector between different functional interfaces: between sub-workstreams, team members and other parts of the organization.
Actively contribute to the creation of presentations to Sponsors, management committees, and others as appropriate.
Complete the project trackers/ PM Tools on a regular, timely and consistent basis.
(Co-) lead project team meetings in alignment with the Project Leader, support and/or lead sub-team meetings.
Ensure implementation of initiatives and solutions across R&D.
About you
Experience:
Experience in leading and delivering transversal initiatives.
Pharma industry knowledge and experience.
Demonstrated the ability to challenge the status quo and implement simple solutions.
Positive change agent for organizational structure or processes/governance changes.
Experience working with cross-functional and globally dispersed teams preferred.
Soft Skills:
Project management skills.
Demonstrated ability to influence across functions and levels and proactively engage with key partners.
Strong verbal and written communication skills are required.
Technical skills:
Understanding of financial reconciliation and LEAN Six Sigma.
A broad understanding of the life cycle management of a product including processes and governance.
Expertise with multiple computer applications (including but not limited to MS Office Suite, Project, Ariba and database management systems).
Education:
Bachelor’s or advanced degree (BS, MBA) in science and/or business.
Languages:
Strong Command of English in both verbally and in writing.
Why choose us?
Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team in an international work environment.
Work from an "Office of the Year 2023" award winner with flexible home office policy.
Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.
Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.
An individual and well-structured introduction and training of new employees and we will dedicate a Buddy for you to better navigate in your first weeks.
Join a great community & special events (Monthly Board Game Nights, Summer Events, Well-Being Lectures & Sport Clubs).
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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.
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