Job title: Associate Project Manager

• Location: Beijing Site

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. Your job, as Associate Project Manager within our M&S China-BEI Site, will be to making best class medicines with excellent strategies and tools and delivering them to our patients.

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

Please indicate here the main job responsibilities

• Project Cross functional integration, bridging the boundaries, removing siloes and enabling the flow of information among the various workstreams and to the central program operations group. The assistant project manager will leverage the cross functional gate mapping and associated deliverables to perform the cross functional integration
• Bridge culutar differences and ways of working between the different project team members, local China organization and external suppliers / authorities
• Support team meetings and facilitate cross-functional workshops required for effective project coordination
• Support preparation of presentations and manage meeting minutes for key project meetings (Steering Committees, project core team, project control meetings, schedule performance meetings, risk management, resource management, etc.)
• Administrative support of Resource Management process, Scope management Risk management process, Lessons learned, Communication / reporting (executive summary), support shine updates (Cost, FTEs and PKMs),
• Support team co-location, temporary office setup, and special events throughout the lifecycle of the project
• Supporting the Head of DS Insulin China Project in Program Management Governance, update and maintain key dedicated project documents (Project Execution Plan, Project Control Plan, Project Documentation Plan, Project Charter, Project Governance, etc.) on regular basis to reflect past events, current tasks and future strategies
• Effectively communicate the key project documents to all relevant stakeholders, including all existing and new project team members
• Support project change management and communication practices/initiatives
• At the onset of the project, manage, track and control paper & electronic project documentation including Sharepoint and / or Teams administration following the program document management structure.
• Support the E2E 3t Project Manager in anticipation, identification and communication of project risks on & across the site.
• Support discussions with local autorties and government bodies

About you

List here ideally the must-haves criteria to be successful on the role.

Experience

• Technical/Business Bachelor’s Degree with 2-5 years pharmaceutical manufacturing and/or project experience
• Very organized and structured
• Ability to cooperate across the organization.
• Experience in applying project management best practices with emphasis on team integration, action tracking, document management and presentations.
• problem solving mentality and able to generate innovative a digital solution to improve efficiency.

Soft skills

• Strong communication skills and ability to bridge ways of working between different cultures.
• Collaborate effectively with peers, stakeholders, partners across the organization to positively impact business results.
• Act for innovation, initiating new and improved ways of working.

• LEAN oriented, problem solving & new way of working.
• Open minded and curios to learn new tools.

Technical skills

• Basic understanding of Biotech manufacturing and pharma business
• Know-how in integrated C&Q activities for Pharma process.

Education

• University degree such as Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Engineering or Business studies
• PMP and PMI Agile certification or equivalent is a plus.

Languages

• Excellent communication skills (written and oral) in English and Chinese (Mandarin)
• French and German are a plus.

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.

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

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!