R and D Project Manager

Job Title: R and D Project Manager

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 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.

The Project Manager leads the management of initiatives in R&D, articulating the strategy of the project and its execution. The Project Manager will provide targeted project management with R&D leaders to drive projects through the design, delivery and implementation ensuring effectiveness is measured.  The Project Manager communicates activities across core team members, identifies risks and mitigation plans, and manages variances in timing, resources/budget, and ensures project quality.  

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?

Main Responsibilities:

• Identifies issues to be raised with Project Leader and proposes solutions and mitigation plans.

• Acts as key connector between different functional interfaces: between sub-workstreams, team members and other parts of the organization.

• Communicates project vision as needed and establishes trust within the project team and functional departments.

• Ensures communication to all stakeholders, including regions, functions and platforms as needed. This includes project reports and timely alerts.

• Ensures execution of project plan and roadmap within expected timelines

• Ensures that team members are aligned to deliver on project plans

• Manages stakeholders by ensuring communication to departmental management on issues related to their deliverables and/or responsibilities.

• Actively contributes to the creation of presentations to Sponsors, management committees, and others as appropriate.

• Provides concise updates on status of project including timelines and budget

• Completes the project trackers/ PM Tools on a regular, timely and consistent basis.

• (Co-) leads project team meetings in alignment with the Project Leader.

• Manages and/or leads sub-team meetings as appropriate case-by-case

• In conjunction with the Project Lead, ensures implementation of initiatives and solutions across R&D

About You

Work Experience:

• Candidate will have demonstrated the ability to challenge the status quo and implement simple solutions.

• Candidate will be a positive change agent for any changes as it relates to organizational structure or processes/governance.

• Demonstrated ability to influence across functions and levels and proactively engage with key partners.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills are required.

Minimum required skills: 

• Project management skills

• Organizational, interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written)

Minimum preferred skills:

• Experience in leading and delivering transversal initiatives

• A broad understanding of the life cycle management of a product including processes and governance

Technical skills:

• Expertise with multiple computer applications (including but not limited to MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Project, Ariba and database management systems).  

Education:

• Bachelors or advanced degree (BS, MBA, PhD) in science and/or business

Language Requirements: English

Why Choose Us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.

• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.

• 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.

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

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All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.