Deputy Director End to End Project Controller

Sanofi•Swiftwater, PA

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Deputy Director End-to-End Project Controller (E2E PC) will report to Swiftwater Project Management Function (PMF), which is under the Swiftwater Vaccines Industrial Affairs (VIA) organization, and support project leaders for the projects assigned to this role. The E2E PC role is accountable to ensure budget and schedule adherence for Investment projects. This is a critical role in the overall management of the projects and coordination of all functions supporting projects. The E2E PC role is heavily matrixed and critical to maintain project budget and schedule. The E2E PC must interact and foster collaborative relationships with project leaders, work stream controllers, workstream leaders / project team, VIA US Finance, site leadership, global PMF, and the leadership from external partners. The E2E PC will also be responsible for leading cross-functional initiatives, such as VIA Project & Program Management Handbook training, SHINE management / administration, and resource capacity & demand forecasting. Join a global network that powers how Sanofi delivers — seamlessly, purposefully, and at scale. In Manufacturing & Supply, you’ll help reimagine how life-changing treatments reach people everywhere, faster. About Sanofi: 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 lives.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree required in Business, Engineering, Science or any field
Minimum 5 years of experience in a similar type of role

Nice To Haves

Project Management processes and ways of working, project schedules, project resource estimation, project budget estimation (CAPEX and OPEX)
Ability to develop business cases, change orders, collating/consolidating work-stream financial information
MS-Excel and MS-PowerPoint expertise
Planisware (SHINE) expertise
SAP experience
Project Management Professional (PMP)

Responsibilities

Lead cross-functional and end-to-end planning and execution for Investment projects: Tier 1 / Large & Complex projects, Tier 2 projects of medium size and complexity, and the annual Critical & Major project portfolios.
Manage and control schedules, budgets, communications, and risks.
Ensure delivery of project objectives on time, budget and quality, taking into account risks and working closely with members of the project team.
Build and manage integrated project plans and identify critical paths and key milestones towards ensuring timely delivery of projects.
Ensure that the project plans are ambitious but achievable by ensuring that they are set up with necessary elements and the relevant connecting milestones between functions/work streams and verifying that the linkages are consistent with the project strategies.
Identify inter-dependencies among work stream activities and lead the project team on prioritization and risk mitigation.
Document the project’s critical path and mitigation strategies.
Build and manage resource plans in alignment with project timelines.
Work with the cross-functional project team members to ensure that resources are anticipated, planned/budgeted and allocated to meet the demands of the project plan.
Challenge the key underlying assumptions on work stream budgets, schedules, and resources with function/work stream leaders.
Collect, enter, and maintain / update all information (budgets, schedules, resources) from workstreams in SHINE.
Coordinate the cross-functional project teams on budgets and schedules to ensure they are up to date by reporting true and faithful status of the project.
Ensure timely and consistent planning, forecasting, analysis, and reporting on budgets and timelines to enable business decision making.
Consolidate, monitor, challenge, and ensure reforecasts with project team members: budgets, schedules, resources, and risks.
Provide project teams, PMF management, steering committees, site leadership, and global leadership with consolidated financial and timeline information (forecasts and actuals).
Define project Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and measure and report project progress to the project team, PMF management, steering committees, site leadership, and global leadership.
Perform financial and business analyses, as / when needed, either on project or operational matters and report / explain variances versus target.
When scope change is required (by the Steering Committee or other drivers), prepare and coordinate the necessary elements supporting the decision making by site and global governance committees – with focus on financial and regulatory impact.
Ensure the follow-up and communication of project scope changes and execution changes.
Identify and recommend opportunities for improvement, such as timeline acceleration while balancing cost and without compromising on quality.
Support the project team on implementing improvement opportunities.
Communicate lessons learned across the corporate project management function.
Organize and manage project steering committee meetings and other meetings with key internal and external stakeholders.
Support PMF in applying the VIA Project & Program Management Handbook and Sanofi project management standards and best practices.
Lead initiatives to improve / enhance the project management practice across Swiftwater VIA.
In-scope areas would include, but not limited to, VIA Project & Program Management Handbook training, SHINE management / administration, and initiatives on project management best practices for resource forecasting, scheduling, and ways-of-working.