R&D CMC Portfolio Operations Specialist

R&D CMC Portfolio Operations Specialist at Sanofi

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 an innovative global healthcare company with one sole 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?

Our Team

The CMC Project and Portfolio Management Team plays a critical role in ensuring that the Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls (CMC) aspects of pharmaceutical development are managed efficiently across Sanofi's portfolio. This includes managing transversal CMC projects portfolio, implementing and overseeing efficient strategies, managing adherence to CMC governance and prioritization, ensuring cross-GBU CMC interface, and implementing best practices through CMC process improvement.

Join our global Global CMC Project management organization (PMO) as an R&D CMC Portfolio Operations Specialist, a support role for the Head of Project and Portfolio Management. You will be responsible for operational excellence, process optimization, and administrative coordination to ensure sufficient portfolio management activities.

Main Responsibilities

Data management

• Support the development of data management strategies and lead its implementation
• Maintaining collaborative databases across the portfolio ensuring proper document control and accessibility
• Documents in scope: agenda, presentations, meeting minutes, lessons learned

Governance bodies management

• Support Head of Project and Portfolio Management in administering CMC Governance organization
• Committees in scope: CMC Board, CMC Pipeline Committee, CMC Technical reviews, IDCC briefings
• Ensure process adherence & maintenance involved in all steps of existing processes and provide recommendations for governance process improvements
• Coordinate cross-functional meeting calendars and ensure appropriate scheduling of governance meetings

Portfolio Operations support

• Maintenance of portfolio development dashboards and support analytics
• Assist in tracking and monitoring CMC projects across the portfolio
• Collect and compile data for portfolio reviews and status reports
• Prepare regular reporting on portfolio performance metrics
• Systems in scope: CMC aBinder, iPORT, RDPM

Project management systems

• Lead continuous improvement initiatives for PMO processes
• Maintain and update the CMC handbook with latest processes, templates, and best practices, harmonized editorial layout
• Support the Head of Project and Portfolio Management to maintain project management tools, databases, and reporting systems
• Support the Head of Project and Portfolio Management in implementing of project management standards and templates
• Assist project teams with documentation requirements and process adherence as needed
• Apply a proactive approach to process improvement

Training and team interaction

• Train team members on PMO processes and support onboarding of new team members
• Troubleshoot issues and provide user support for project management systems
• Cross-functional coordination: liaise with stakeholders from R&D, Quality, Manufacturing

About You

Experience:

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in pharmaceutical/biotech industry, and experience in project support, operations, or related roles
• Experience leading small workstreams

Soft Skills

• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities
• Analytical mindset with proactive problem-solving orientation and ability to prioritize multiple tasks
• Strong organizational management skills including experience with project management tools and methodologies
• Experience in change management with influencing skills
• Ability to work with minimal supervision on complex projects
• Ability to represent the PMO in cross-functional workstreams

Technical Skills

• Confident user of digital tools, platforms, and data-driven solutions, open to AI
• Digital proficiency: advanced MS Excel, skills including Power Query, experience with Power BI for data visualization and reporting, knowledge of Power Automate or Power Apps for process automation
• Demonstrate experience in process optimization and implementation

Education

• Master’s degree in a relevant field (Life Sciences, Business Administration, or Engineering preferred)
• Project Management certification is advantageous

Languages: Fluent English skills (both verbal and written)

Why choose us?

Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team in an international work environment. Work from an "Office of the Year 2023" award winner with flexible home office policy. 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. An individual and well-structured introduction and training of new employees and we will dedicate a Buddy for you to better navigate in your first weeks. Join a great community & special events (Monthly Board Game Nights, Summer Events, Well-Being Lectures & Sport Clubs).

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.

Key skills/competency

• Portfolio Management
• Project Operations
• Data Management
• Process Optimization
• CMC Governance
• Microsoft Excel
• Power BI
• Power Automate
• Pharmaceutical Industry
• Cross-functional Coordination