Position Title: Quality / HSE Functional Expert
ABOUT THE JOB
Sanofi is globally deploying its new greenfield ERP cross-functional system processes, covering Backoffice (Finance, Supply Chain, Trade) and Manufacturing & Supply activites (Production, Quality, Maintenance, Warehouse) across all Global Business Units using SAP S4/HANA technology.
This Transformation program aims at:
- Enabling & harmonizing way of working for all Global Business Units (GBU) & Global Functions
- Simplifying processes and Sanofi users’ experience with use of Fiori
- Using power of SAP S4 to improve performances (processing time) and move to new technology embedded in S4 (webservice, QRFC...) and work with S4 database
- Having a single source of truth for all sites (current landscape includes several SAP instances)
- Use benefit of SAP S/4
What you will be doing:
The Digital SAP QM Expert will participate to the implementation of Business Value Project (BVP) and / or enhancement of the CORE solution. He/She may also be participating to deploy projects at Sanofi sites according to the program roadmap.
She/He ensures the optimal usage of the solution for the domain of Quality management in integration with purchasing, production, Warehouse, Planning, customer services, and supply chain integration.
She/He will in charge to organize, drive and manage roll out activites for Asia area for Quality scope and coach ressources with less experience.
She / He will be the referent for Roll Industrialization and related tooling.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Ongoing support
- Deploy Core Solution on SAP on Sanofi sites
- Support further stabilization efforts post hypercare
- Enhancement, improve and complete Core
- Lead value improvement activities to ensure maximum value generation of implemented solution
- As the Sanofi S4 Core Model template evolves over time, lead initiatives to ‘retrofit’ future
improvements to live sites
- Support upgrade (2025) & identify new AI tools proposed by SAP / external providers to ease & accelerate business activities
Business Alignment and Solution ownership
- Analyse As-Is situation of business processes
- Based on Sanofi’s global ERP template solution identify and apply core model processes to the receiving manufacturing sites to maximize business value
- Support all stages of data migration activities for the Batches and Quality Management domain
- Ensure integrated process design, including process integration between S4/HANA as well as system integration with external connected systems (MES, LIMS...)
- Create test cases and perform functional unit and integration tests
- Support key users in the User Acceptance Test
- Contribute to planning and execution of go-live preparation, cutover and hypercare tasks for their domain
Organizational change management
- Support identification of change impacts to the end users’ ways of working
- Define actions to help facilitate the business organization with the changes in business processes
- Train the key users in the new business processes and the new S/4 core model solution
- Promote the core model solution with the business stakeholders and users
- Provide advice and support to improve efficiency of cross-functional practices
Data management
- Working with key users to support activities to cleanse data in the legacy system
Working with the business and and technical teams to support data extraction from legacy systems based on data requirements for the new S4/HANA solution
- Working with the business and the functional-technical teams to support data migration activities from legacy systems into the new solution
Cut-over and Go-Live
- Identify cutover steps for their domain to contribute to the creation of a cutover plan
- Execute the cut over activities for their domain. Support key users in the execute of business cutover tasks.
- Support the site during the hypercare phase to stabilize the new solution
People Management
- Communicate in transparencies with his/her fellow co-worker and management
- Contribute to the transfer of know-how, experience and best practices within his/her domain and beyond
ABOUT YOU
Education
- Graduated from Engineering school or Business school
- Master’s degree
Experience & knowledge
- 8+ years’ work experience including as solution designer
- Significant experience of Quality Processes in SAP managed industrial plants : SAP QM expertise a minimum
- Experience on HSE if possible
- Experience on Production processes would be a plus
- Experience on warehouse processes would be a plus
- Experience on Lims / interfaces system would be a plus
- Experience in Life Science industries would be a plus
- Experience in SAP S4HANA would be a plus
Core competencies
- Quality business processes and relevant SAP solution (QM, PP, S4HANA, Fiori,)
- Knowledge of pharma industry regulatory context (GxP)
- Deep project management skills with capacity to adapt to a changing environment
- Ability to collaborate and build effective networks inside and outside Sanofi
- Strong capability to impact and influence, negotiation skills and conflict management
- Accountability, reliability
- Fluent in English (verbal, written)
Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.
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!