CI Specialist

Overview

Join a global network that powers how Sanofi delivers — seamlessly, purposefully, and  Manufacturing & Supply, you’ll help reimagine how life‑changing treatments reach people everywhere, faster.

CI Specialist –
Sanofi

Location: Toronto, ON

• Collaborating with PCU/APU Lead and other transversal functions (e.g. HSE, Quality, ENG) to create a culture of Continuous Improvement
• Working with all levels of leadership to realize CI value and impact, escalating issues if necessary.
• Collaborating with the HSE SC specialist to support at best the PCU on HSE activities and CI process.
• Train and coach the team on problem solving and root cause analysis tools.
• Facilitate the Level 1 CI process, including coordinating CI projects prioritization.
• Lead the development and continuous improvement of role cards and standard work plans.
• Lead Level 1 CI meeting, ensuring the CI board is updated by project owners.
• Contribute to CI projects at Level 2 CI meeting and escalates to Level 2 major impacts caused by activities of other units.
• Interface to Global Supply Planning to align standards channel improvements into the site SC.
• Drive implementation of relevant KPIs at site level to measure Site SC performance.
• Responsible to correct and align data sources for KPI calculation.
• Monitor & track monthly Site SC Performance PCU / APU & Site level.
• Conduct root cause analysis to effectively address issues.
• Serve as the point of contact for other units to share losses or impacts resulting from the activities of their Level 1 team.
• Analyze data from data collection systems to help set daily, weekly, and monthly prioritization and escalation decisions by the PCU Lead.
• Create and update Pareto of losses from data collection systems as input to Level 1 +QDCI meeting; attend and contribute to the daily Level 1 +QDCI meeting. If the PCU CI Specialist covers more than one Process‑Centric Unit, they can rotate daily between the different PCUs they are covering.
• Collect and analyze production area capacity data from partners and available tools. Ensure data is usable and scalable for operational planning and decision‑making. Support timely updates to parameters in systems (such as SAP) as required.
• Challenge assumptions and propose parameter changes in collaboration with Finance, OPEX, Production, and MSAT. Develop capacity scenarios as required.
• Support platform capability reviews across different APUs through management of key inputs, constraints, max capacities, shutdowns, etc.
• Facilitate the flow of information (inputs, outputs, escalations) from platform capability reviews to relevant stakeholders and processes (such as SSR, SCR) with accurate data, strong analytics and trends.
• Lead Cycle Count program implementation and training in each PCU. Monitor cycle count and inventory management performance in the PCUs and report on highlights and deficiencies at the monthly governance meetings.
• Develop CI initiatives to address performance gaps in Cycle Counting in areas with low count accuracies or deviations in inventory management.
• Work with site finance, internal controls, and third‑party auditors to ensure site compliance to regulated stock‑taking process and best inventory practices.
• Support the management of blocked/rejected materials in the PCUs through Waste Destruction process and tools, providing training and performance monitoring of removal of blocked materials.
• Work with Operations, Finance, and Supply Chain partners to ensure materials to be blocked are provisioned by Supply Chain and liaise with Finance to maintain accurate provision and destruction data and classifications. Work with HSE and Operations to ensure sensitive and non‑sensitive materials are disposed of as per guidelines.
• Develop and publish KPIs to be reviewed and discussed at monthly governance meetings.
• SAP key user – participate in SAP incident resolutions, testing system updates, communicating changes to the areas.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Business Management/Science with 2 years of experience.
• Preferred Lean Six Sigma (any level) certification.
• Expertise with IT tools, particularly ERP systems (SAP), advanced planning tool (Kinaxis)…