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 one year ago, we have elevated our commitment to innovation and excellence.
Business Operations 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 will bring people together – many of them in our four hub locations around the world - which will simplify processes, break down barriers and rapidly cross-fertilize the best ideas across Sanofi. 

Our critical success factors:

We have identified three key drivers:

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. Digitalization - Enabling transparency, data-driven decision-making support, agility and rapid innovation across Sanofi's entire value chain.

About the job

BOOM is a Sanofi-wide effort to design, implement, and sustain a lean management system in Business Operations, aiming for world-class performance on service, quality, and cost efficiency.

The Head of Continuous Improvement & Process Excellence will oversee the design, rollout, sustainment, and continuous improvement of BOOM.

Responsibilities include developing scalable Lean system components, ensuring consistency across Service Lines, and integrating Lean principles in daily operations across the full BO organization.

The role requires input from multiple stakeholders and coordination through workshops and Gemba presence with Business Operations operational and leadership teams, to evaluate approaches and align on a shared model. It will also ensure integration across Service Lines and Hubs while managing specific local requirements to maximize value.

Key responsibilities:

Understand true world class approaches from inside and outside of Sanofi; incorporate these opportunities into the design processDuring the design phase: ensure that BOOM design is delivered on time and codified effectively balance the drive for world class against the need for practical solutionsDuring the deployment phase: drive the deployment roadmap of BOOM across Towers and Service Lines (with dedicated deployment resources in Hubs); ensure consistency of BOOM deployment across Towers and Service Lines; partner with Tower team members to share and learn from best practicesOwn and drive the continuous improvement of BO Operating standards; drive innovation while ensuring stability in the global design for deploying sites; use impact and value as a condition for refinement inclusion

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in a Technical or Business field with 10+ years of relevant experience; Master’s degree a plusExperience in Operational Excellence, design / installation and operation of Lean systemsGood understanding of Lean Systems; Lean and Six Sigma a plusIntellectual rigor and flexibility/tenacity to manage design trade-offs; evidence of innovation, problem-solving and structured thinkingPracticality to deliver workable solutions, capable of supporting processes from strategy to implementationStrong presentation and facilitation skillsExcellent communication skills at various levels; demonstrated track record of leading and influencing organizations and/or teamsProven capabilities in program management; success in executing projects with small & medium teamsStrong proficiency in Excel analytics and PowerPoint materials geared for senior site audiences; experience with SAP systems strongly preferredFluency in English required

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 and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!