Project Manager - Supplier Excellence Programs

Job Title: Project Manager - Supplier Excellence Programs

Location: Hyderabad

About the job:

Sanofi is a global life sciences company committed to improving access to healthcare and supporting the people we serve throughout the continuum of care. From prevention to treatment, Sanofi transforms scientific innovation into healthcare solutions, in human vaccines, rare diseases, multiple sclerosis, oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, diabetes and cardiovascular solutions. As a company with a global vision of drug development and a highly regarded corporate culture, Sanofi is recognized as one of the best pharmaceutical companies in the world and is pioneering the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with strong commitment to develop advanced data standards to increase reusability & interoperability and thus accelerate impact on global health.

Supplier Excellence is accountable of all initiatives (including some programs) related to external spend impacting Sanofi sites performances.

Project management activities are progressed by a Project Manager, member of the Supplier Excellence Team. Due to the transversal (Cross GBU and Function) approach of these activities and the several interactions with multiple Suppliers a Project Management Office is needed.

Main Responsibilities:

• In the context of a consistent structuration of supplier excellence activities, it is required to have the support of a Program Management Officer to:

• Support for ideation and evaluation of value-creation initiatives (including the Collaborate To Win Program) in the domain of external spend

• Data collection and Analysis of information recovered at a manufacturing center level on yield losses, down-times and line stoppages, rejects and ejects and more generally performance losses impacting financial PnL (Profit & Losses) (including claims management).

• Support preparation of Gemba walk and Problem-Solving session to identify the most relevant opportunities related to external spend.

• Support the Supplier Excellence Team for global initiatives coordination.

• Support Supplier Excellence Team members for creation, coordination, and execution of TIP (Tactical Implementation Plan) and RoadMap 

• Support the coordination across Archetype to set-up a consistent approach (Global / GBU / sites)

• Propose and plan meetings and different events proposed by Supplier Excellence Team.

• Support task and action planning, with relevant monitoring & follow up meetings.

• Ensure regular & ad hoc reporting (e.g. via scorecards & dashboards) by means of specific management tools

Main Interactions:

• GBU Supplier Excellence Representatives

• Third Party Quality Representatives

• Global Devices & Packaging Unit Representatives

• Cross functional team members (e.g. Local and global Quality Representatives, SMEs in Operations and Technologies)

• Key Supplier Operation Leaders

Deliverables:

• Set of standard documents (ppt, Excel…) to support Program coordination and Community of Excellence management (e.g. Concept ID Card, Initiative Opportunity Charter)

• Key Supplier Operation Leaders

• Planning, coordination; meeting minutes

• Action log Tracker

• Project Steering committees’ presentations (contributions)

• Program Metrics / KPI (update)

About you:

• Experience: Overall, 8-12 years of experience with 1-3years of experience in Pharmaceutical Companies, Primary Components/Medical Devices Manufacturing companies in Manufacturing Operations, Manufacturing Excellence or Supplier Excellence. Basic Knowledge of key financial principles applied to a real-world context; pharmaceutical Quality Systems applied to a real-world context. Basic education to Lean Six Sigma methodologies (Yellow Belt, Green Belt is a plus) with some practical application to a real-world context is a plus, experience in project launching and team working with an efficient communication. Transversal cooperation & teamwork mindset.

• Soft skills: Good writing and presentation skills. Strong attention to detail and organizational skills. Ability to manage multiple priorities and work collaboratively with cross-functional teams. Proactive communication style with good problem-solving abilities

• Technical skills:Mastery of Windows Office applications, with a strong focus on Power point effective presentation and PowerBI.

• Education: Degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Technologies, or Engineering (L3 or BUT, M2 is a plus)

• Languages: Fluent professional English (written and spoken)

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