Job Description

Role Title - Head of Operational Readiness M&S Hiring Manager: Global Head of Operational readiness*
Location: Hyderabad / Budapest*
30% of travel expected*
Job type: Permanent, Full time, Hybrid (as per policy)*

About the job
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Our Team:

Our ambition: deliver best-in-class enterprise services enabling Sanofi to chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives. Sanofi has been building the foundations of enterprise services over the past few years. With the creation of the global business unit Business Operations (BO) in 4Q 2023, we have elevated our commitment to innovation and excellence. BO plays a key role for Sanofi in modernizing the way we work.


An expert leadership team, passionate about leading high performance.


We are building for the long term. We bring people together - many of them in our four hub locations around the world - simplifying processes, breaking down barriers and rapidly cross-fertilising the best ideas across Sanofi.

Our critical success factors:

Community - Building a vibrant team that will attract and engage talent, with four global hubs.


Excellence - Simplifying, standardizing and continuously improving processes to capture synergies, scale effects and productivity improvements. Digitalisation - Enabling transparency, data-driven decision-making support, agility and rapid innovation across Sanofi's entire value chain.

Role Overview:

The Head of M&S services operations readiness will closely partner with M&S Services leadership to design and implement operations transition to the hub, actively participating to the modernization of M&S while maintaining business continuity and compliance with pharmaceutical industry standard

Main responsibilities:

Define target operating models for M&S services processes to be transferred to hubs and lead impact assessment vs the current stage Lead complex process transition to hubs while ensuring business continuity Build Global roadmap for M&S services transition: Transition projects size, sequencing, need for capability building, interdependencies identification, etc. Develop and implement effective knowledge transfer in close collaboration with M&S SMEs Lead process and activities documentation in close collaboration with M&S SMEs as the backbone of continuous improvement Define and lead the transition governance structure in strong collaboration with M&S services transformation team Identify, highlight and address function-specific transition risks, developing targeted mitigation strategies for complex process transitions, understanding and meeting business needs.

About you
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Experience:

Strong partnership and One Sanofi mindset, working with a large stakeholders group Extensive experience in large scale and complex operations transformation M&S background in quality and/or supply chain is a plus Proven track record in designing and implementing operational models Experience in leading international teams

Languages:

Fluency in English; additional languages are beneficial

Education:

Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree in Business Administration.

Soft skills:

Demonstrated problem-solving skills Strong analytical skills Capacity to handle mutltiple stakeholers in a complex and changing environment

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