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Job title: Manufacturing & Supply - Global Device and Packaging Unit - Head of Sustainability
Location: Gentilly FR - Cambridge, Bridgwater US - Frankfurt GE
About the job
We deliver 4.3 billion healthcare solutions to people every year, thanks to the flawless planning and meticulous eye for detail of our Manufacturing & Supply teams. With your talent and ambition, we can do even more to protect people from infectious diseases and bring hope to patients and their families. Your job, as Head of Sustainability within our Global Device and Packaging Unit Team, will be pivotal in driving our ambition to become industry leading in sustainable devices & packaging, delivering innovative technologies that add value to the drug, enhance the patient experience, and ensure a sustainable world for future generations.
As Head of Sustainability, you will nourish our sustainability ambition & mission, create and implement the sustainability strategy, roadmaps, governance & processes for primary containers, devices, and packaging, in alignment with the company’s Environmental & Sustainability goals to achieve the company ambition to become industry leader. Being a complete new position for Sanofi, you will have to transform the organization mindset and create a culture where sustainability is part of the DNA.
Main responsibilities:
* Elaborate, recommend, get endorsement and lead the long term (4-15 years) sustainability vision, strategy, guidelines and roadmaps for primary containers, devices & packaging in collaboration with multifunctional stakeholders (commercial, R&D, HSE, manufacturing sites, MSAT, QA, finance, supply, CMO, RA, Public Affairs…) and in alignment with the company’s Environmental & Sustainability goals.
* Strategic advisor on critical sustainability initiatives to senior leadership. Provides critical information, advice, and guidance on business issues/implications across departments/work groups.
* Translate the overall strategy into a project pipeline including prioritization.
* Develop & implement system (process, tools, data) to track & report environmental performance.
* Anticipate external stakeholder needs, certifications and regulatory frameworks evolution, earlier gap identification & closing – one touch to protect the business and become industry leader.
* Help operationalize and integrate environmental sustainability into new product solutions, development processes with the ultimate goal of enabling GDPU teams in developing more environmentally sustainable products and solutions.
* Work closely with the Sanofi’s Planet Care group, as well as internal and external partners to minimize our environmental impacts of products across their lifecycles.
* Bring relevant sustainability insights (customers, patient, trade associations, NGOs, regulators etc.) to inform the strategy.
* Scout the external environment for new environmental innovations in materials and solutions to be integrated in new product pipeline, leveraging his/her end to end pharmaceutical/chemical background (formulation, manufacturing, regulatory…).
* Foster a culture of sustainability within GDPU and beyond through ongoing organizational communications, education and awards.
* Set up the organization and be the place to be for talents.
About you
* Master or PhD level qualification in a relevant scientific discipline
* Minimum of 15+ years’ experience in driving sustainability strategy and initiatives within large Pharma/FMCG/FMCH companies with a proven sustainability strategy
* Environmental Acumen and proven experience in product stewardship (including Life cycle assessment, environmental footprint, …)
* International Business experience
* Demonstrated ability to be a change agent, influence across functions and into external networks (trade associations, suppliers…), excellence in collaboration and flexible in the approach.
* Languages: fluent in English, French 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 high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.
* Play an instrumental part in creating best practice within our manufacturing facility
Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.
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. You can be one of those people. Chasing change, embracing new ideas and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Let’s pursue progress. And let’s discover extraordinary together.
At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.
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