Job title: Development/LCM Global Project Head – Vaccines R&D

• Location: Marcy l’Etoile

About the job

As Development/LCM Global Project Head within our Vaccines R&D team, you'll serve as the strategic leader driving integrated development strategies for New Vaccines projects from Gate M2 through licensure. You'll orchestrate cross-functional collaboration, lead Global Project Teams, and serve as a key voice in governance and strategic decisions that bring life-saving vaccines to patients worldwide. Ready to make a lasting impact on global health?

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:

• Strategic Leadership: Develop and execute integrated vaccine development strategies from Gate M2 through licensure, including Target Product/Vaccine Profile creation, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and patient needs
• Team Management: Lead Global Project Teams and sub-teams, fostering collaboration across functions while setting clear objectives, providing feedback, and holding team members accountable for deliverables
• Project Execution: Deliver projects on-time and within budget, monitor milestones, address obstacles proactively, and ensure seamless coordination across all functional areas and geographies
• Resource Optimization: Supervise project activities, optimize allocation of budget and personnel, and partner with functional leaders to secure necessary resources and capabilities
• Strategic Planning: Translate Target Product Profiles into comprehensive development plans, ensuring alignment across Integrated Early Global Plan, Clinical Development Plan, and Global Regulatory Strategy
• Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners (NGOs, academic institutions, joint ventures), representing the project in high-level strategic discussions
• Communication & Governance: Present project objectives, progress, and risk mitigation strategies to senior leadership and governance committees with clarity and impact, tailoring messaging to diverse audiences
• Franchise Strategy: Contribute to R&D vision and strategic roadmap for the vaccine franchise, identifying opportunities for synergies across projects and therapeutic areas

About you

• Education & Experience: Ph.D. in science, MD, or Pharm.D. with 7+ years in vaccine development OR B.S./M.S./MBA with 10+ years in pharmaceutical/biotechnology development
• Leadership: Proven ability to lead international, cross-functional teams toward common goals; experience in people management and team development
• Strategic Thinking: Deep understanding of vaccine development processes combined with business acumen and commercial awareness
• Technical Expertise: Comprehensive knowledge of global vaccine development, regulatory requirements, and quality standards
• Communication: Outstanding presentation and interpersonal skills, with ability to engage audiences at all levels and build consensus among diverse stakeholders
• Personal Attributes: Performance-oriented with strong execution focus, adaptable in the face of changing priorities, and passionate about improving global health

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
• Make the impossible possible by contributing to breakthrough moments in vaccine innovation and development
• Drive strategic decisions that shape the future of global health prevention with visibility at the executive level
• Lead high-impact projects that directly translate into protecting millions of lives worldwide

PursueProgress. DiscoverExtraordinary.

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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.

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