Continuous Improvement Lead

About The Job

This position is part of Sanofi Business Operations, within Process Excellence & Innovation organization and reporting to the Head of Continuous Improvement. Process Excellence & Innovation (PE&I) drives continuous improvement and process excellence, ensuring existing service towers adopt a standard framework, methodologies and tools to deliver upon end-to-end process excellence ambition.

The role will provide Continuous Improvement leadership to help standardize and transform our end-to-end process. The role is focused on complex initiatives, that can span transversally across end-to-end process areas and regions, in an environment with a high degree of inter-dependancy.

Main Responsibilities

• Provide Continuous Improvement (CI) guidance to Business Operations department.
• Maintain and promote the CI framework.
• Contribute to Business Operations CI Program, especially during assessment, design and execution phases.
• Provide consultancy, mentoring, coaching to CI initiatives.
• Lead some CI initiatives, especially the transversal ones. Develop and provide supporting tools and methodology.
• Disseminate CI culture across Business Operations department
• Design and execute CI training programs
• Contribute to CI governance with various stakeholders
• Provide the right factual data to Process Owners so they can take the best decisions.
• Identify and promote synergies across the different end-to-end process.
• Liaise with other PE&I teams (e.g. Process Intelligence, Process Mining, Data, Automation, etc.) to reach the maximum of efficiencies.
  
  

About You

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Business Administration or Science.
• 3-5 years of working experience in GBS / BPO Shared Services industry or consulting industry.
• Certification in CI methodology (Black Belt certified or any other equivalent certification).
• Knowledgeable in business process in scope (e.g. Finance, HR, Procurement, Manufacturing & Supply, R&D).
• Proven track record of impactful contributions to CI programs with tangible results.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, including with Senior stakeholders.
• Excellent written and oral communication & inter-personal skills, ability to develop high-quality documents.
• Ability to lead and motivate team members with indirect reporting relationships across multiple geographies. through a CI journey.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, and ability to work independently and take initiative under pressure.
• Strong collaboration mindset with ability to work with a group of people with different functional expertise.
• Adaptability to deliver in ambiguous context, flexible, comfortable with changes.
• Efficient analytical skills, attention to details.
• Knowledge/certification on Continuous Improvement methodology (Lean Black Belt).
• Fluent in English is mandatory. Other language is a plus.
  
  

Why Choose Us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.
• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.
• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including health insurance, out-patient benefits along with a range of family friendly policies such as maternity, paternity, and solo parent leaves to name a few.