Job Title: Large Scale mAbs Engineering Project Head

Location : Vitry sur Seine, France

About the Job

We deliver 4.3 billion healthcare solutions to people every year, thanks to the flawless planning and meticulous eye for detail of our Manufacturing & Supply teams. With your talent and ambition, we can do even more to protect people from infectious diseases and bring hope to patients and their families.

Join Sanofi’s Specialty care and project delivery team as the Vitry Large Scale mAbs Engineering Project Head . In this critical role, you will lead the Vitry Large Scale mAbs project and be responsible for coordinating all activities associated with the setup of the new drug substance manufacturing building. You will be responsible for early enabling works, permitting, and constructability reviews before taking the project through BOD, DD, Construction, Commissioning and Qualification and Handover. You will represent the Global Engineering in the overall project, working in very close collaboration with the Vitry Site team.

At Sanofi, we are committed to pushing the limits of science to improve people’s lives. Be part of a global healthcare company that transforms the practice of medicine, connecting our science to the communities we serve.

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:

From project execution phase up to routine manufacturing, Vitry Engineering Project Head is responsible for:

• Providing overall leadership and direction to the Project team, ensuring the manufacturing facility and equipment are properly designed, installed, qualified, maintained, and processes properly validated.

• Ensuring all Safety & Quality Standards, as well as Regulatory commitments, are met with the highest standards of quality.

• Ensuring on-time/on-budget execution of the project.

• Ensuring project risks are properly identified, followed-up and reported, and that mitigation plans are implemented.

• Ensuring the building delivered complies with the performance targets committed in the SPE.

• Building and executing Manufacturing staffing and training plans along the project execution and running operations.

• Preparing and supporting strategic workforce planning.

• Preparing and supporting proper integration of the new facility within the legacy Vitry site.

• Providing the Manufacturing schedule to support the project execution as well as the manufacturing ramp-up until routine activities are settled.

• Contributing with MSAT to the optimal process definition for new equipment and facility to ensure process robustness, product quality and costs optimization based of the current production process analysis (equipment, organization).

• CapEx management and COGs optimization are a must and the project head is accountable to deliver the most optimiun efficiency.

• Representing the site in front of authorities (ANSM, EMA, FDA, WHO).

About you

• Master’s degree in Life Sciences, Engineering, or Biotechnology

• Broad industrial experience in the pharmaceutical business (>10 years)

• 10 years of large teams’ management experience (+100 people)

• Experience in multi-site operations, global projects and matrix management.

• Thorough knowledge of cGMP and regulatory requirements.

• Demonstrated ability to build highly performing teams.

• Fluent in French and English

• Strive to result and ability to make decision in a complex and high speed environment

• Intercultural experience

• Excellent communication skills

• Ability to influence and build strong relationships with internal and external partners.

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.

• Play an instrumental part in creating best practice within our manufacturing facility

Pursue Progress . Discover Extraordinary .

Progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. You can be one of those people. Chasing change, embracing new ideas and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Let’s pursue progress. And let’s 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, or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkpDBZ-CJKw&t=67s) and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com (https://www.sanofi.com/en/our-responsibility/equality-and-inclusiveness) !

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Pursue progress , discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkpDBZ-CJKw&t=67s) and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com (https://www.sanofi.com/en/our-responsibility/equality-and-inclusiveness) !

Sanofi is dedicated to supporting people through their health challenges. We are a global biopharmaceutical company focused on human health. We prevent illness with vaccines, provide innovative treatments to fight pain and ease suffering. We stand by the few who suffer from rare diseases and the millions with long-term chronic conditions.

With more than 100,000 people in 100 countries, Sanofi is transforming scientific innovation into healthcare solutions around the globe. Discover more about us visiting www.sanofi.com or via our movie We are Sanofi (https://youtu.be/96EwNjb1TLo)

As an organization, we change the practice of medicine; reinvent the way we work; and enable people to be their best versions in career and life. We are constantly moving and growing, making sure our people grow with us. Our working environment helps us build a dynamic and inclusive workplace operating on trust and respect and allows employees to live the life they want to live.

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