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Senior Director Real Estate Project Engineering

Synthorx

Synthorx

Sales & Business Development
Gentilly, France
Posted on Jun 12, 2025

Le contenu du poste est libellé en anglais car il nécessite de nombreuses interactions avec nos filiales à l’international, l'anglais étant la langue de travail.

This job offer is accessible to all, regardless of gender.

Job title: Senior Director Real Estate Project Engineering

  • Location: Gentilly, France. Other French locations are possible.

  • Job type: permanent, full-time


About the job

Join us in shaping Sanofi's future through exceptional workspace!

Are you passionate about creating unique work environments and attracting top talent? Our Global Real Estate team is looking for a dynamic individual to lead innovative projects in workplace design and engineering. You'll be at the forefront of facility operations, planning, HSE, and smart building technology, ensuring our spaces are cutting-edge and efficient.

If you're ready to make a significant impact and drive future success, we want you on our team!

In this role you will become the driving force behind projects that shape Sanofi's future! In this exciting role, you'll:

  • Lead game-changing initiatives across diverse user groups, delivering exceptional results on time and on budget

  • Connect with key stakeholders throughout our organization, orchestrating seamless project delivery

  • Take the helm on high-impact real estate projects that make a real difference

  • Apply your expertise in Real Estate Project Design, Engineering and Management

  • Shape our workplace strategy with your innovative vision and implementation skills

Main responsibilities:

  • Strategic Project Leadership: Lead projects using key metrics to drive stakeholder participation and decision-making while ensuring adherence to Sanofi's workplace standards

  • Technical Excellence: Provide expert technical guidance to team members and ensure all projects are fit for purpose, meeting statutory requirements and delivering required benefits

  • Stakeholder Collaboration: Design integrated solutions based on departmental needs and create pathways for stakeholder involvement throughout project delivery

  • Vendor Management: Direct internal teams and 3rd party vendors on technical requirements, ensuring contractors are properly pre-qualified for project delivery

  • Project Planning & Execution: Develop technical deliverables, project estimates, and execution plans while providing input on timelines from design and implementation perspectives

  • Risk Management: Facilitate technical risk register creation and ongoing management, ensuring regular reviews with the project team

  • Financial Oversight: Partner with RE/WX teams and Finance on global portfolio capital planning, including milestone planning and real-time forecasting

  • Technical Expertise: Apply knowledge of Smart Building and Building Management Systems to enhance project outcomes

About you

  • Experience: Significant technical experience in building design and operations and proven record of driving RE projects to completion

  • Soft and technical skills: Strong analytical skills, in combination with an understanding of modern building design concepts and how this applies to the workplace of the future.

  • Ability to analyze data, derive insights and communicate findings (both verbally and in writing) in a non-complex manner that can be understood by the appropriate stakeholders / audience.

  • Strong problem-solving skills. Ability to look at project challenges and recommend solutions for changes in alignment with user requirements, business strategy and objectives.

  • Directly or indirectly lead multiple subject-matter experts to identify and resolve challenges that exist throughout a project’s life cycle.

  • Education: Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering

  • Languages: Verbal and written fluency in English and French (including dual language technical fluency)

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.

  • Creating unique work environments and take the helm on high-impact real estate projects that make a real difference.

  • Transform our workplace strategy through your innovative vision and exceptional implementation capabilities.

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!