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Context

Sanofi strategic direction is to standardize processes across sites, to embrace the digital transformation of its Manufacturing & Supply perimeter, looking at the opportunity to simplify its current solution landscape and leverage advanced technologies to bring business value.

In that context, the MARS program aims to implement the Computer-assisted batch review, enabled by the definition and roll-out of a core Manufacturing Execution System (MES). The MARS (MES Accelerated Roadmap @ Sanofi) program will transform Sanofi plants, improving compliance, cost and cycle time performance.

Over the last 3 years, Sanofi has deployed 30 Production sites across 4 GBUs (multiple and different pharmaceutical processes, 18 Weighing & Dispensing & 12 full MES), and a second wave, should start in the coming years (> 50 production sites, pending business case confirmation).

This represents a strategic opportunity for Manufacturing & Supply Transformation to:

• Design standardized end-to-end processes to generate business value and deliver best-in-class solutions to our industrial sites, with a high focus on electronic batch record management (content, execution) & review by exception process;

• Deliver innovative "state of the art"tools enabling performance formanufacturing processes across the Manufacturing & Supply sites;

• Allow new generation of deployment – more Agile & business centric

• Maintain robust and highly available solutions to operate industrial processes efficiently

About the job

The Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Senior Full stack engineer drives the design, build and lifecycle of global end to end MES solutions (addition of interactive various components working together) as well as operational excellence to meet business needs in an operational and financially efficient manner. You guarantee and promote the right usage of Sanofi Digital and Industrial standards for Processes, Applications and Infrastructure environments. You leverage on Digital Portfolio the Detail Design document, catalogue of services and existing building blocks. You will work in close collaboration with MES Digital Product Owners, MES DevOps Engineers, MES developers, Product lines, Local digital & business teams, Business Process Owners and Archetype leads. You remains up to date on company’s standards, Digital industry practices and emerging standards and contributes to Digital standards maintenance.

Main MES system in scope :

• Siemens MES OpcenterExecution Pharma Product (named MARS for Sanofi)

• Koerber MES PAS-X Product (named INOVA for Sanofi)

Business Processes covered in scope :

• Master data management (items, users rights, equipments, locations, Workorder…)

• Master batch record edition & approval (including workflows)

• Master batch record review & approval (by Exception)

• Guidances / instructions

• Production execution

• Weighing & Dispensing

• Communication to equipements or scada systems

• Equipment management

• Material flow management

• Traceability / Genealogy

• Labelling

• Reporting

• Articulation with ERP, quality, logistic & shopfloor systems (LIMS, Documentation, Deviation management, Serialisation, OEE,…)

Main responsibilities

Business Alignment:

• Understand the business requirements (including analytics ones) for the various processes in their domain, be able to challenge, to consolidate and to extrapolate them in order to build solutions expendable to multi-GBU use cases and plant configuration

• Providefunctional & technical leadership during the full lifecycle and ensure adoption and adequate uses of the solution.

• Maximize customer satisfaction considering also to minimize build and maintenance costs, and risks associated with fulfillment of Business needs

• Propose innovative Digital solution to address new business needs creating competitive advantage

• Implement the appropriate services to ensure optimal allocation of all available capabilities

People Management:

• Ensure functional lead & expertiseto project teams across the MARS program & the sites

• Facilitate the transfer of know-how, experience and best practices

• Contribute to Digital skills development within your domain

Delivery and Quality of services:

• Design and build core solutions as close to standard market solutions as possible,on the basis of state-of-the-art best practices and aiming at aligning processes and enabling industrial efficiency across the different industrial sites of Sanofi.

• Contribute of the on-time delivery of projects of domain ensuring robust, cost effective solutions while ensuring customer satisfaction, and business value focus

• Safeguard the proper deployment of core solutions on the different industrial sites

• Evaluate impact analysis on solution options and assesses and manages associated risks

• End-to-end business process analysis including integration with partner systems (ERP, other shopfloor systems, automation layers), labelling technologies, and mobile technologies

• Participate in the definition of indicators for performance and quality of service, monitor and communicate them

• Ensure the compliance of the solutions within the area in relation to legal and regulatory requirements

Strategy development and Implementation:

• Remain current on technology trends and Benchmark with other companies and partners to bring innovative inputs to our solutions, operating models and to our strategy

• Collaborate with peers (Enterprise Architects, other solution architects, Cybersecurity team, technical architects…) to review solution design and/or introduction of new technology to ensure compliance with Sanofi standards

• Explains / presents architecture and technical matters in an understanding way to Digital management team, staff and business stakeholders. Able to explain complex matters in a simple and understandable way

• Breaks current Gxp Validation established postulates to simplify and adapt to current and next generation technologies & methodologies (Cloud, Service Management, Agile), without Quality regression on documentations and validation processes

About you

Experience & Knowledge:

• 10+ years work experience in Manufacturing/Automation domain

• Demonstrated experience in a multicultural/multilanguage environment and in a matricial organization.

• Broad knowledge of Manufacturing Processes in industrial plants

• Significant MES experience :market standards knowledges (solutions, technologies, integration) , process industry within lifescience / pharmaceutical industries

• Core Product/Model concept

• Successful and significant Project Management experience would be a plus

Core Skills :

• Expert of MES solution Werum PAS-X ( &/ or) SiemensOPCEnter Pharma execution

• Strong knowledge Manufacturing Execution System,

• including Master Batch Record and Review by Exception business processes and relevant MES solutions/modules/functionalities

• Strong Knowledge of pharma industry regulatory context (GxP)

• Strong communication, and interaction skills. Able to drive change management

• Knowledge of Solution architecture, infrastructure & integration (AWS, Azure, Windows / Oracle architectures, Middlewares, Cyber Security rules, low code platform as Mendix, mobility technologies,...)

• Knowledge of Digital Development technologies (C#, VBscript, HTML, CSS, Powershell, XML,...)

• Knowledge of Reporting tools (Power BI, Crystal reports,...)

• Automation layer (Scada, DCS, PLCs, industrial protocols)

• Agile mindset , Accountability, reliability

• Ability to challenge, open minded and active listening

• Ability to collaborate and build effective network inside and outside Sanofi

• Ability to evaluate processes/solution to improve performance and drive continuous improvement

• Proven vision, ability to anticipate evolutions due to internal and external factors.

• Education : Engineering or master in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)

• Languages : English

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