CHC Manufacturing Transfer Lead

Job title: CHC ManufacturingTransfer Lead

• Location: Neuilly sur Seine
• 40% Remote working and up to 20% of travel expected
• Job type: Permanent, Full time
  

About The Job
At Sanofi Consumer Healthcare, we have one overarching mission - to work passionately, challenging ourselves and our industry every day, to drive what we believe is the next health revolution: evolving from simply serving consumers, to helping people help themselves - bringing “Health in Your Hands”.
We are building trusted & loved brands that connect with hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide, enabling better self-care for individuals and communities, while also contributing to a healthier planet. To fulfill this mission, we are embarking our consumers, our customers, healthcare professionals, and our employees in this journey because this is what will make us become the “Best Fast Moving Consumer Healthcare (FMCH) Company In & For the World”.
Consumers at the heart of everything we do and we want to make a difference where it counts, driving leadership in the categories we play in: Allergy, Digestive Wellness, Pain, Physical & Mental Wellness, and Cough, Cold & Flu.
To achieve this, we need strong talent who will help us shape the future of our Consumer Healthcare business and challenge our industry. We aspire to create a work environment where people can thrive, grow, and be at their best every day. We believe in operating with integrity and prioritizing the health and well-being of people and communities where we operate, working towards making a positive impact in the world.
Our Team:
The CHC Manufacturing & Supply (M&S) team is a key player in CHC GBU, aiming at aligning industrial strategy and objectives with commercial ambition, delivering our customers and patients expectations with high quality products. With more than 4500 employees, 13 manufacturing sites, 6 distribution centers, external manufacturing partners, and dedicated industrial support functions, CHC M&S network is present in more than 40 countries and supplies 2 billion boxes/year worldwide.
The CHC Strategy & Project Team is responsible within M&S for Industrial Strategy, Sourcing and Product Portfolio Management (PPM) aiming to create an Industrial Supply Network and Product Portfolio excelling in customer centricity driving our CHC growth ambition.
The Sourcing, Strategy & Transfer team has the objective to build the CHC sourcing strategic road map for our CHC key brands, Drug Products and Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) from external suppliers, and monitor timely execution of key industrial transfers & API dual sourcing roadmap.
Main Responsibilities
With more than 200 formulae in scope of manufacturing transfer (IN&OUT) across our 13 manufacturing sites worldwide and 4 regional hubs for third party manufacturing. The Technology Transfer Lead will support three M&S transversal activities:

• Monitor and maintain up to date the technology transfer mapping and technology transfer risk dashboard for the CHC division.
• Coordination of site’s portfolio simplification via manufacturing transfer-OUT
• Lead of strategic and complex transfer initiatives.
  

1- Technology Transfer Mapping & Risk management

• Responsible for the maintenance of the CHC transfer (in / out) database via continuous interaction with all manufacturing sites and Third-Party Regional Hubs
• Ensure the application of harmonized technology transfer principles and practices.
• Establish and maintain the mapping of major technology transfer risks, ensure appropriate mitigation, and provide visibility/communication to the CHC Global Transfer Committee.
• Contribute to CHC Budget and Strategic Plan: Project prioritization, resources allocation, site network impact.
  

2- Coordination of site’s portfolio simplification:

• Manage the key initiatives of site’s portfolio simplification requiring manufacturing transfer-out activities.
• Support the set-up of a central, standard governance to monitor execution of simplification programs via implementation of dedicated tools for monitoring (dashboards, KPIs, milestones)
• Represent CHC sites and M&S network in dedicated meetings/forums with external partners and/or internal stakeholder from different GBUs.
• Ensure communication and interaction with Third Party Sales organization, Senior CHC management and main stakeholders on transfer-out progresses vs plan.
• Ensure common ways of working and the overall monitoring and coordination across the CHC organization.
• Provides technical input and guidance to manage specific issues / risks.
• Lead of strategic and complex transfer initiatives:
• Lead of strategic and complex transfer across the division requiring central coordination & specific technical knowledge.
• Provide technical input/support to manufacturing sites to solve specific issues (process failures/anomalies, analytical investigations, responses to questions from authorities…)
• Support the set-up and execution of the CHC Global Technology Transfer Committee and governance
  

About You

• Experience: 5 to 8 years minimum of proven manufacturing & supply experience and successful track record in leading manufacturing transfer activities.
• Main attitudes: Team leadership and transversal management, organizational skills, strong communication, results oriented, decision making, ability to work on multiple tasks and in a constantly evolving environment.
• Soft skills:
  
• Transversal management involving relevant technical stakeholders (Portfolio Management CHC Global Team, Heads of Portfolio Management Sites, Third Party Manufacturing Sales, Key Account Managers; CMC Regulatory, M&S supply Chain, M&S Quality.)
• Autonomy and ability to work in complex and international environment.
• Influencing and negotiation skills to build solutions and partnership.
• Objectives and deliverables / results oriented.
• Synthesize and explain complex topics to non-experts and to management.
• Proven ability in oral communication.
• Take responsibility for decisions and accountable for results.
• Risk management approach, including quality, time, and costs.
  

• Technical skills:
  
• Proven track record in manufacturing transfers and as project/program leader for OTC / CHC products in an international environment.
• Strong expertise in Process Development, CMC and/or manufacturing area.
• Confirmed experience in project lead, in managing project transversal teams (i.g. at site level) and in complex, multicultural and changing environment.
  

• Education:
  
• PhD/Degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemistry, or Engineering
  
• Languages:
• Fluent in English, French is a plus
  

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.
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