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Sanofi Business Operations (SBO) strives to be a strategic and functional partner for tactical deliveries to Medical, HEVA, and Commercial organizations in Sanofi, globally.\nThe Sanofi Business Operations (SBO) is built to reduce reliance on external services providers and facilitate the development of internal expertise. The Sanofi Business Operations will leverage untapped combination of talent pool.\nPosition Summary:\nThe Program Manager - Medical Program Management leads and oversees the end-to-end delivery of medical affairs program support activities, acting as the primary liaison between Specialty Care GBU, Business Partners, TA Medical/MPM teams, and external vendors. Unlike the Associate PM (execution-focused), this role carries greater ownership of governance, risk, escalation, budget accountability, and team supervision, often overseeing or mentoring one or more Associate Project Managers.\nMain responsibilities:\nStrategic Program Oversight\nOwn the end-to-end program roadmap across multiple TAs/projects, not just individual project execution\nTranslate Medical Plan strategy into actionable project portfolios and resource plans\nProactively identify cross-project dependencies, conflicts, and synergies across the multiple TAs GBU portfolio\nExecution - Coordinate team activities, assign tasks, and monitor progress against the project plan while facilitating cross-functional collaboration. Ensure quality standards are met and manage stakeholder expectations and communication throughout.\nPresent program status, risks, and strategic recommendations to senior stakeholders and leadership\nMonitoring & Controlling - Track project performance using KPIs and metrics while managing changes to scope, schedule, and resources. Resolve issues, conduct regular status meetings, and ensure compliance with all internal and external standards.\nDefine and continuously improve governance frameworks before onboarding new team members or projects\nClosure - Review project outcomes against objectives, document lessons learned and finalize deliverables with stakeholder approval. Release resources, close out contracts, and archive all project documentation.\nBudget Ownership & Financial Governance\nHold overall accountability (not just execution) for the TA/program budget - sign-off authority on PO/WBS above a defined threshold\nLead budget reconciliation reviews with Finance and MPM leadership, identifying variances and corrective actions\nOwn the full Annual Budgeting Plan (ABP) governance cycle - not just tracking, but designing the governance model, setting deadlines, and holding TA teams accountable to milestones\nConduct budget risk assessments and contingency planning for the therapeutic area portfolio\nApprove vendor contracts and amendments within delegated authority; escalate high value/high-risk contracts appropriately\nPeople Leadership & Team Management\nSupervise, mentor, and coach one or more Associate Project Managers, providing guidance on daily tasks, prioritization, and professional development\nConduct performance check-ins and contribute to APM performance reviews\nOnboard new APMs/team members and ensure they are trained on governance processes and systems\nFoster a collaborative team culture and act as an escalation point for team-level issues\nAllocate work across the team based on capacity, priority, and skill match\nRisk & Issue Management\nProactively identify, log, and manage program-level risks (not just project-level issues) using a formal risk register\nDevelop mitigation and contingency plans for high-impact risks (budget overruns, vendor non-performance, compliance gaps, resourcing shortfalls)\nEscalate critical risks to senior leadership with clear recommendations\nLead root cause analysis for recurring issues and drive process improvements\nSenior Stakeholder Management & Communication\nServe as the primary point of contact for senior Business Partners, TA Medical Leads, and MPM leadership (beyond day-to-day liaison)\nLead quarterly/monthly business reviews with stakeholders, presenting portfolio health, budget status, and key decisions needed\nNegotiate priorities and resource trade-offs across competing TA/stakeholder demands\nManage difficult conversations around scope changes, delays, or budget constraints with diplomacy and data-driven justification\nAdvanced Reporting & Analytics\nDesign and maintain portfolio-level dashboards (beyond individual Smartsheet trackers) consolidating KPIs across all TA projects\nConduct trend analysis on budget burn rate, tactic execution rates, and vendor performance\nProvide data-driven insights and recommendations to leadership on resource allocation and process efficiency\nStandardize reporting templates and ensure consistency across the team\nProcess Ownership, Compliance & Quality Assurance\nOwn and continuously improve SOPs/governance processes for PO/WBS creation, ABP management, SRC support, and SharePoint governance\nEnsure full compliance with internal Sanofi policies (Legal, Compliance, Privacy/GDPO) and external regulatory standards across all team deliverables\nConduct periodic audits/quality checks on team deliverables (study ID cards, SRC documentation, distribution lists, etc.)\nLead process harmonization initiatives across hubs/TAs to drive efficiency and consistency\nCross-Hub & Global Team Coordination\nCoordinate with global and other hub teams to align on shared processes, best practices, and lessons learned\nRepresent the local/hub team in global governance forums or working groups related to Support Program Management\nDrive knowledge-sharing initiatives and contribute to global playbooks/best practice documentation\nContinuous Improvement & Innovation\nIdentify opportunities for process automation (e.g., leveraging Smartsheet, Power BI, or other digital tools) to reduce manual effort\nLead or contribute to change management initiatives when new tools, processes, or governance models are introduced\nStay current on industry best practices in project/program management and bring innovative ideas to the team\nVendor & Contract Strategic Management\nLead vendor performance reviews and relationship management beyond day-to-day follow-up\nNegotiate contract terms and support RFP/vendor selection processes when new vendors are needed\nEnsure vendor compliance with Sanofi's Code of Conduct, confidentiality, and data privacy requirements\n TA activities and priorities:Tactics and Priorities tracking - Following the tracking of projects for budget purposes, the hub program manager will work closely with the TA specific Medical and MPM Teams to collaborate with the management of the status tracking of the tactics and priorities (set by the Medical Plan and actualized in the Budget)\nPrivacy data - The hub program manager will work closely with the Medical and MPM team on project-related Privacy information and tools, in collaboration with the Global Data Protection Operations Department\nInternal Calendar - The hub program manager will work closely with the TA specific Medical and MPM Teams to implement and manage an omni comprehensive Team Calendar, to track Congresses, Events, SRCs, Internal Meetings and ad hoc\nShare Point site - The hub program manager will work closely with the TA specific Medical and MPM Teams to restructure, reorganize and maintain the Team’s Share Point site\nProject Support: coordinating with vendors for data sets, engaging with external stakeholders as needed, communicating with the hubs and global team as per project’s need.\nAd hoc - The hub program manager will perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned\nundefined\n Medical Evidence Generation support:\n\nCSS SRC - The hub program manager will support the MPM team to manage the SRC review approval process effectively. They will collaborate with the MPM to collect pre-meeting material and documents to ensure a timely SRC review, and to develop post-meeting documents to register actions and decisions (e.g. meeting minutes and study’s approval forms). They will also be responsible for scheduling ad hoc meetings to discuss post-SRC follow up actions\nStudy ID cards - The hub program manager will support the MPM team to manage the study SRC documents and ID cards: creation, update/upload/archive into appropriate location defined by governance\nSmartsheet tracking - The hub program manager will ensure the Smartsheet trackers are maintained updated, in coordination with cross functional stakeholders\nCDA and Confidentiality Notice Management\nExpert Consultancy Tracking\nCyber-grant Sponsorship\nSupport on One support ticket\nBooklet including Expert Profile creation for Congress\nDistribution List creation and maintenance\nAd hoc - The hub program manager will perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned\nAbout you\nExperience: 10 + years of experience in pharma/life-science companies with project management and finance/ budget tracking skills\nSoft skills: Stakeholder & Project management; communication skills; ability to work independently, in a timely manner, and within a team environment. User, planning and financial tool Management. Planning and analytical skills\n Technical skills: Proficient with Microsoft Office (i.e., Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, and Outlook), Smartsheet, other planning tools, financial tools\nEducation: Bachelor/ Master’s degree required - life sciences, with Business Management as a plus\n Languages: Excellent knowledge of English language (verbal and written)\nPursue progress, discover extraordinary\nBetter 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.\nAt 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.\nWatch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!","description_format":"text","description_chars":10555,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"master","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Equity","Professional development"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"India","iso":"IN","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","Biotechnology","Vaccines","Rare Disease Therapeutics"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-08T08:32:29Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":15,"reasons":["conf:1","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-09T04:21:59Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/sanofi-program-manager-medical","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/sanofi-program-manager-medical.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-09T04:21:59Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3979,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":1021,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-10T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":146},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=146"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fsanofi-program-manager-medical"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fsanofi-program-manager-medical"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fsanofi-program-manager-medical"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/sanofi-program-manager-medical\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fsanofi-program-manager-medical"}]}