Job Description

Continuous Improvement Lead

About the job

Our Team:

This position \xe2\x80\x9cContinuous Improvement Lead\xe2\x80\x9d is part of Sanofi Business Services (SBS), reporting to Head of Benchmark, Improve and Change (BIC).

Sanofi Business Services (SBS) is a Global Business Service (GBS) team within Sanofi organized by pillars:

\xc2\xb7 3 Service Lines that are managing financial & accounting processes,

\xc2\xb7 1 Service Line managing employees-oriented processes,

\xc2\xb7 1 Service Line managing the contracting process.

\xc2\xb7 1 Hub Strategy and Transversal Services team managing the Hub strategy and development providing transversal services for SBS and in some cases all Sanofi

Part of this last pillar, Benchmark, Improve and Change is the team leading SBS Continuous Improvement, Change Management, and Performance Management frameworks and their implementation across SBS.

The primary responsibility of this role is to foster the performance of Sanofi, primarily SBS and its partner departments via continuous improvement strategies, methodologies and tools.

The CI lead has the mission to:

Provide guidance on the proper ways of continuous performance improvement;

disseminate CI culture across the organization, including leadership; as well as to contribute to or deliver performance improvement projects on demand.

Main responsibilities:

• Develop and provide methodologies and tools to stakeholders in their support of CI initiatives or programmes.
• Provide consultancy, mentoring, coaching to CI initiatives.
• On demand, manage CI/Performance Improvement projects, especially with regards to transversal ones.
• On demand manage business process improvements with stakeholders driven by process mining data.
• Support the assessment of the AS-IS CI maturity across the organisation and develop, propose and on demand, deliver strategies or programmes to increase it.
• Contribute to the increase of CI maturity and business success of sanofi Hubs and the integrated SL of SBS.
• Design and execute a CI training program for sanofi Hubs and the integrated SL of SBS.
• Consolidate and document the overall continuous improvement activities into tangible productivity results and implement an effective reporting measurement of productivity.
• Coordinate interdependencies between respective Service Lines to promote synergy and avoid redundancy.

About you

Experience:

• 3-5 years experience in global business transformation environment, within GBS Shared Services industry or similar.
• Certification in CI methodology (e.g. Lean Black Belt)
• Track record of CI tangible results and reporting through scorecard

Soft skills:

• Excellent stakeholder management skills, including with Senior stakeholders
• Excellent written and oral communication & inter-personal skills, ability to develop high-quality documents
• Able to work in uncertain, constantly changing environment
• Self-starter, initiative-taker, and ability to work independently under pressure.
• Strong collaboration mindset with ability to work with a group of people with different functional expertise.
• Multi-tasker, able to establish and keep priorities and timelines to effectively manage workload of self and others
• Resilient and tenacious with a propensity to persevere

Technical skills:

• Knowledge/certification of Project Management methodologies is desirable

Education

• Minimum Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree in business field

Languages

• Fluent in English. Other language is a plus.

Sanofi Behaviors and Skills

This position is required to demonstrate behaviors such as Stretch, Put the interest of the organization, Act in the interest of our patients and customers and Take Action. During the interview we will also be asking for examples of skills such as Strategic Thinking, Result Orientation, People Leadership (if applicable), Relationship and Influence.

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn\xe2\x80\x99t happen without people \xe2\x80\x93 people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let\xe2\x80\x99s be those people.

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