Vaccine R&D Project Planning Manager

Sanofi

Budapest, Hungary

About the job

Are you ready to shape the future of medicine? The race is on to speed up drug discovery and development to find answers for patients and their families. Your skills could be critical in helping our teams accelerate progress.

Join our global R&D Resource & Demand Planning team as a Vaccine R&D Project Planning manager and you’ll develop and manage the Project level plan in Planning tool of each New Vaccine project (from M0 to License) in ensuring a proactive support to the Global Project Manager and Project team. For each of your projects, you will be leading and coordinating operational planning actors to ensure alignment between project and operational plans.

Main responsibilities:

Develop the planning of 3 to 4 New Vaccines projects, for both research & development, based on the strategy/tactics discussed by the project team and based on governance decisions.
Analyse the project timelines and ensure optimal critical path.
Alert the project team on any planning issues and provide guidance on project planning optimization.
Based on GPM/GPT request, develop optimized timelines scenario and provide recommendation.
Coordinate with GPM to align project and operational planning with the project strategy.
Collaborate efficiently with all operational planning actors to ensure consistency between the project plan and the operational plans.
Ensure Project level plan is up to date (at least monthly) in RDPM planning system.
Monitor the progress, the deviation with their explanations and the associated action plan on a monthly basis.
Ensure consistency and high-quality production of planning data by conducting QC of the plan and adjust with relevant planning actors.
Act as Super user in Vx Project planner community.
Manage process, tool and support all users/clients and ensure consistency, robustness and optimization.
Conduct training, education, and refresher sessions as needed for new planners,
Provide feedback on evolution of NV template/metrics updates.

About you

Experience:

Previous experience in the pharmaceutical industry with understanding of R&D and project management/planning.
Previous experience project/planning management.

Soft Skills:

Teamwork and transversal collaboration, strong networking skill & customer oriented.
Ability to coordinate activities and manage various stakeholders, in a multi-cultural environment.
Quality focused: Attention to detail, rigorous.
Strong communication skills (written and oral).
Analytical, data quality driven, synthesis and reporting skills.
Adaptability in a highly changeable environment.
Pragmatism, agility, autonomy, adaptability, curiosity, culture of sharing.

Technical skills:

Knowledge of drug/vaccine development process and in-depth understanding of interconnections between all contributors to the project strategy at all stages of development.
Solid project/planning management skills (experiences in Project team).
Knowledge of a planning tool.
Planisware® technology would be a plus.