Operational Planning and Capacity Specialist - VIE

Operational Planning and Capacity Specialist - VIE Contract

• Location:
  
  United States, Cambridge
• Target start date: 01/07/2026

iMove, the Sanofi VIE Program, is available to citizens of the European Economic Area (EU + Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland) aged between 18 and 28.

PLEASE NOTE that since this program is primarily an international development program, candidates cannot apply to a VIE assignment in their own country of citizenship.

PLEASE NOTE that applications that are only submitted in French cannot be considered by our non-French speaking partners at Sanofi worldwide. Therefore, only applications that are submitted in English will be considered. Please make sure to apply with your personal email address.

As Operational Planning and Capacity Specialist
VIE within our R-TMU OPCM group, you’ll be focused on customizing, planning, and updating TMU & Research activities in R&D (Research & Development). This includes managing timelines and resources to reflect operational reality while ensuring alignment with the overall global project strategy. R&D scope is from Research to Preclinical and Clinical Development, and Product Life Cycle Management post initial market approval.

In addition, you will be responsible for Business Intelligence and data analysis for the forecasting of workload and capacity.

Join the engine of Sanofi’s mission — where deep immunoscience meets bold, AI-powered research. In R&D, you’ll drive breakthroughs that could turn the impossible into possible for millions.

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We’re an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.

• Be responsible for the accuracy of the entered plan and regular updates in the R&D planning tool (Planisware solution), and ensure that the project logic and the timelines are accurately reflected (for Research Project - the primary focus is to ensure the research workload is correctly reflected; for Development Project - ensure that the project strategy is correctly reflected into an operational planning, that includes all the necessary activities with the appropriate workload).
• Develop scenarios to make recommendations on optimization of timelines and of resources, and to support decisions for outsourcing if there is any bottleneck.
• Analyse the project deliverable timelines and critical path activities.
• Provide workload and capacity analyses and reporting to support the TMU Project Team, and Managers in the TMU Functions if assigned as Function Business Partner.
• Working in an international environment, regularly attend TMU Project Team meetings, planning meetings and other related meetings linked to project timelines and resources management (e.g., R&D governance preparation) and to OPCM business management.
• Business Intelligence support to the TMU group in Tableau or another reporting tool, develop new reporting data analysis tools for the forecasting of workload and capacity in support of TMU departments and project management.

• At least 1 year full-time professional experience related to the position, preferably in pharmaceutical or biotech industry.

• Analytical mindset, autonomous, proactive, rigorous, adaptable, with advanced synthesis and reporting skills.
• Pragmatic and enthusiastic, with high team spirit.
• Strong communication and interpersonal relationship skills.
• General knowledge on Project Management.
• Skilled in computer tools such as Planisware (Project Management), Excel, experience in BI applications and data analysis.
• Knowledge on R&D Drug Development and business operational activities (Research, preclinical and TMU, Clinical Science Operations) would be a plus.

• Master’s degree in Health Engineering, Science, Computer Science or similar field.

• Fluent in English (verbal and writing).

• Be part of a pioneering…