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IMS Intern

Waterford, Ireland
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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.

Job title: Information Management System Intern

  • Location: Waterford, Ireland

  • Start date: January 2025

  • Duration: 6-8 months

About the job 

As an Information Management System (IMS) Intern, you will play an integral role in implementing, supporting, and promoting the effective use of Sanofi IMS solutions and industrial standards across business and manufacturing application systems. You will join our IMS Team, which is responsible for supporting value creation, ensuring business continuity, and deploying and executing integrated manufacturing systems at the WFD site. Your responsibilities will include both business-as-usual (BAU) and project-related support, IMS administrative tasks, and contributing to the overall goal of maximising business value and stakeholder satisfaction. You will report directly to the IMS Manager on site.

Ready to grow your skills while helping shape the future of healthcare? At Sanofi, you’ll be empowered to learn, ask questions, and bring your ideas to life – all while supported by inspiring mentors and collaborative teams.

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:

  • Supporting the implementation, maintenance, and optimisation of Sanofi IMS solutions and industrial standards across business and manufacturing application systems

  • Updating and maintaining project documentation to ensure accuracy and alignment with project goals

  • Collaborating effectively within a dynamic, team-based environment to support ongoing initiatives and continuous improvement

  • Support the Digital / Automation & IT teams in maintaining hardware and software systems

  • Assist with troubleshooting issues and provide technical support

  • Contribute to introduction and adoption of new Automation within the company

About you


To excel in this role, you will need to have:

  • A degree in progress, ideally in Computer Science or Engineering

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities

  • A proactive attitude toward continuous learning and self-improvement

  • An open, approachable personality and a professional communication style

  • A collaborative mindset and the ability to work effectively in a team

  • Good organisational and time management skills

  • High levels of motivation and initiative

Why choose us? 

  • Stretch your skills through apprenticeships, internships, graduate programs, and international experiences that grow with you. 

  • Learn from inspiring mentors and collaborative teams while contributing to real projects that shape the future of healthcare. 

  • Build your future with access to the latest tools, digital innovation, and continuous learning that keep you ahead of the curve. 

  • Explore more with personalized development plans, short-term gigs, and internal mobility across functions and countries. 

  • Grow in a purpose-driven company where your voice matters and your work helps improve millions of lives. 

  • Thrive in inclusive, flexible workplaces that support your personal and professional well-being. 

  • Launch your career with a company that invests in you — and empowers you to reimagine what’s possible.

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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.

Watch 'One day at Sanofi' and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion initiatives at sanofi.com

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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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