Success Profile

Courageous
Results-driven
Proactive
Problem-Solver
Leadership
Team player

The Company

Sanofi is a global diversified healthcare company committed to improving access to healthcare and supporting people throughout the continuum of care. As one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies worldwide, Sanofi provides healthcare solutions in more than 170 countries worldwide, with 73 manufacturing sites in 33 countries. From prevention to treatment, Sanofi transforms scientific innovation into healthcare solutions, in human vaccines, rare diseases, multiple sclerosis, oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, diabetes and cardiovascular solutions and consumer healthcare. More than 100,000 people at Sanofi are dedicated to make a difference on patients’ daily life, wherever they live, and enable them to enjoy a healthier life.

In 2019, Sanofi unveiled a new strategic framework to drive growth and unleash fresh inspiration across the business. Known as “Play to Win”, the strategy is based on the following four key priorities:

• Focus on Growth – Sanofi’s portfolio focuses on three primary growth drivers, namely: (i) Dupixent is a transformative medicine with significant potential for treatment of type 2 inflammatory diseases such as moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis, asthma, and chronic sinusitis with nasal polyps; (ii) Vaccines are expected to deliver growth through a wide portfolio of products, market expansion and launches; and (iii) R&D efforts have identified six potentially transformative therapies with expected submission dates in 2021.
• Lead with Innovation – Sanofi has prioritized six potentially practice-changing therapies in its pipeline for large numbers of patients in need of life changing treatments, including: (i) Fitusiran, (ii) BIVV001, (iii) Venglustat, (iv) SERD (‘859), (v) Nirsevimab, and (vi) BTKi (‘168).
• Accelerate Efficiency – As means of funding growth opportunities, Sanofi expects to generate significant savings; the savings are expected to result primarily from limiting spending on de-prioritized businesses, implementing smart spending initiatives in procurement, and driving operational excellence in manufacturing and organizational productivity.
• Reinvent How we Work – Beginning in 2020, the company has structured itself along three global business units, including (i) Specialty Care, (ii) Vaccines, and (iii) General Medicines. Each business unit will be responsible for worldwide regions and include the contribution from sales for its products in emerging markets. Consumer Healthcare will operate as a standalone business unit, with integrated R&D, manufacturing, IT and support functions deemed critical to enhancing speed and agility to maintain competitiveness.

Sanofi is an equal opportunity employer that embraces diversity to foster positive, innovative thinking that will benefit people worldwide.

The Role

The role of the VP, Specialty Care within External Manufacturing & Supply reports to the SVP, External Manufacturing & Supply and is directly accountable for managing and transforming the External Manufacturing Specialty Care organization. Responsibilities include -

• Governance & Operational Performance Management - Lead, manage, and coordinate the overall collaboration, communication, and interactions with our strategic suppliers and partners
• Develop service level agreements, reports, activity dashboards, and relevant KPIs and use these to ensure balanced operation performance of the supplier
• Continuously drive improvements in performance of the supplier in all relevant areas of Safety, Quality, Cost and Delivery
• Ensure that actual spend is in line with the relevant budgets, the contractual agreements and that these agreements are kept up to date
• Transversal Collaboration
• Facilitate and build collaborative business relationships across the BIO division and all Biologics functions internally and across the suppliers’ organizations
• Build and maintain strong interfaces and collaborations with other departments like legal, procurement, regulatory, business development, licensing and alliances and partnerships and consider later impact on BIO operations
• People Development
• Manage and develop direct reports and provide the right direction and guidance regarding their specific supplier management and partnership activities.
• Contract & Relationship Management
• Ensure compliance with master service agreements and specific contracts in place Ensure that terms and conditions of master service agreements and specific contracts, including the Quality Technical agreement (QTA), are met by all parties in the contract
• Monitor the contract life cycle and proactively co-manage negotiation phases with global procurement and the involved operational teams in the set-up of a contract or a request for quotation (RFP) related to a strategic supplier and partner
• Own the relationship management with the supplier.
• Establish and maintain a positive culture of collaboration and partnership in the combined BIO and supplier/partner team.
• Escalate issues when required and formulate plus implement proposals for issue resolution Risk Management Partner with all relevant Biologics functions, global procurement and strategic supply and sourcing leads to ensure that risk assessment and risk mitigation strategies are in place and acted on with regards to suppliers/partners and key activities under the scope of the concerned collaboration.
• Own the risk mitigation plans and seek efficiencies and innovation for the suppliers under your responsibility
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Liaise and establish milestones with project teams and regulatory departments to ensure alignment of activities with regulatory needs and preparation of partners for potential audits Liaise with supplier/partner management and identify sources of continuous improvement regarding the products and services delivered by the suppliers/partners
• Enhance any product and process improvement plans and coordinate the right Biologics functions involvement

Candidate Profile

The successful candidate will bring a very strong track record of success in both transformation and growth. Notably, to fit culturally with the leadership team s/he will naturally drive for excellence and want to win, constantly challenging the status quo. The successful candidate will likely bring experiences from a highly complex, SKU intensive, multi-site Biopharmaceutical and/or biotech company.

Basic Qualification

• Bachelor's degree in Science or Engineering
• 15 to 20 years of experience in the BioPharma industry is mandatory
• 10 years of experience with people management
• The job is ultimately to produce biopharmaceuticals products: all skills and knowledge around biopharmaceutical manufacturing Biologics or Vaccine products, in a specific and complex regulatory context, is important. Specifically, the successful candidate will bring operational or technical experience leading an external manufacturing function and/or leading a CMO network of plants.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to negotiate strategic deals on behalf of the company - negotiation experience with CMOs is mandatory and strong appetite & understanding for Legal matters highly valued.

Preferred Qualifications:

• (MSc, PhD, MBA)

Critical competencies for success -

• Setting Strategy - The ability to create and articulate an inspiring vision for the organization, not only for the areas s/he is directly responsible for, but the enterprise as a whole.
• The inclination to seek and analyze data from a variety of sources to support decisions and to align others with the organization's overall strategy.
• An entrepreneurial and creative approach to developing new, innovative ideas that will stretch the organization and push the boundaries within the industry.
• The ability to effectively balance the desire/need for broad change with an understanding of how much change the organization is capable of handling, to create realistic goals and implementation plans that are achievable and successful.
• Executing for Results - The ability to set clear and challenging goals while committing the organization to improved performance; tenacious and accountable in driving results.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty; the ability to adapt nimbly and lead others through complex situations.
• A risk-taker who seeks data and input from others to foresee possible threats or unintended circumstances from decisions; someone who takes smart risks.
• A leader who is viewed by others as having a high degree of integrity and forethought in his/her approach to making decisions; the ability to act in a transparent and consistent manner while always taking into account what is best for the organization.
• Leading Teams - The ability to attract and recruit top talent, motivate the team, delegate effectively, celebrate diversity within the team, and manage performance; widely viewed as a strong developer of others.
• The ability to persevere in the face of challenges, and exhibit a steadfast resolve and relentless commitment to higher standards, which commands respect from colleagues.
• A leader who is self-reflective and aware of his/her own limitations; leads by example and drives the organization's performance with an attitude of continuous improvement by being open to feedback and self-improvement.
• Relationships and Influence - Naturally connects and builds strong relationships with others, demonstrating strong emotional intelligence and an ability to communicate clearly and persuasively.
• An ability to inspire trust and followership in others through compelling influence, powerful charisma, passion in his/her beliefs, and active drive.
• Encourages others to share the spotlight and visibly celebrates and supports the success of the team.
• Creates a sense of purpose/meaning for the team that generates followership beyond his/her own personality and engages others to the greater purpose for the organization as a whole.

As a healthcare company and a vaccine manufacturer, Sanofi has an important responsibility to protect individual and public health. All US based roles require individuals to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as part of your job responsibilities.

According to the CDC, an individual is considered to be “fully vaccinated” fourteen (14) days after receiving (a) the second dose of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine, or (b) the single dose of the J&J vaccine. Fully vaccinated, for new Sanofi employees, is to be fully vaccinated 14 DAYS PRIOR TO START DATE

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

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At Sanofi diversity and inclusion is foundational to how we operate and embedded in our Core Values. We recognize to truly tap into the richness diversity brings we must lead with inclusion and have a workplace where those differences can thrive and be leveraged to empower the lives of our colleagues, patients and customers. We respect and celebrate the diversity of our people, their backgrounds and experiences and provide equal opportunity for all.