About the job

Our Team:

This position is part of Sanofi Business Services (SBS), within Portfolio, Program & Project Management (P3M) organization and reporting to Elaine Chang.

P3M is the team managing Sanofi and SBS projects to deliver the strategic roadmap both now and for the future.

The Project specialist will be involved in projects of high complexity, that can span transversally across geographies mainly across SBS service lines and neighboring functions.

Depending on the complexity this role will provide leadership to implement strategic initiatives, and, in case of significant scope and high complexity, support the Project managers in the planning and coordination of such projects.

Main responsibilities:

• Project coordination throughout the project life cycle.
• Manage project management documents such as the project plan, budget, or schedule as needed
• Monitor project progress and create project status reports for management and stakeholders (e.g., accomplishments, next steps, issues, risks, action items, interdependencies, etc.)
• Facilitate meetings and/or workshops between the project manager and stakeholders as required.
• Assist with resource scheduling so that project team members have the resources they need to complete their tasks
• Support project team member when implementing risk management strategies
• Track progress of issues resolution and risks mitigations as per the agreed plans
• Help develop communication materials as required (change management, communications, trainings, etc.)
• Track project team resources, project financials and contract as necessary.
• Facilitate in lessons learned and best practices summarizing achievements & improvements·
• Support the project manager on administrative tasks, related to the Project management

About you

• Experience:
  • 3+ years of relevant experience with project management.

• Soft skills:
  • Excellent written and oral communication & inter-personal skills
  • Self-starter, initiative-taker, team player
  • Excellent organizational skills, ability to deliver efficiently and timely as per the given priorities
  • Efficient analytical skills; attention to detail
  • Adaptability to work in ambiguous, constantly changing situations, including flexibility in working hours to accommodate working with different regions/geographies
  • Ability to develop high-quality presentations
  • Ability to work with cross-functional teams in an international environment
  • Excellent interpersonal, and written/oral communication skills

• Technical skills:
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office (including Teams, SharePoint), project management tools such as MS Project.
  • Programs, Project and/or Change Management certification (e.g. MSP, PMP, Prosci) is a plus
  • Agile certification (e.g. Scrum Master, Product Owner, etc.) is a plus
  • Knowledge of LEAN/Six Sigma/Continuous Improvement (CI) methodologies – Certifications in these areas a plus

• Education: Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in a business or project management related field.

• Languages: Fluent in English (C1)

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