US Medical Operations Manager - Vaccines

Job Title: US Medical Operations Manager - Vaccines

Location: Bridgewater, NJ / Morristown, NJ

About the Job

The North American Medical Team at Sanofi is a high-performing team of Medical leaders who are a trusted source of scientific and medical information and shared insights; effective and innovative strategic partners to our internal and external stakeholders; and dedicated to public health and empowering lives through immunization. We represent diverse experiences and backgrounds which strengthens our team and mirrors the healthcare communities we engage. 

We are an innovative global healthcare company that helps the world stay ahead of infectious diseases by delivering more than 500 million vaccine doses a year. Across different countries, our talented teams are exploring new technologies to protect people and promote healthy communities. We chase the miracles of science every single day, pursuing progress to make a real impact on millions of patients around the world.

Main Responsibilities: 

The US Medical Operations Manager will oversee Sanofi Vaccines Medical operations, budget, governance, digital and other project management, and SBO initiatives. They are responsible for analyzing business gaps, identifying feasible transformative solutions, and developing and executing innovative plans to optimize operational efficiency. 

Medical Operations

• Lead strategic budget management by developing forecasting models, tracking progress against financial targets, and implementing reconciliation and reporting processes. Identify areas for process improvement and recommend strategies to optimize budget performance, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and proactively addressing any gaps in target achievement. 

• Oversee internal control, audit, and inspection readiness, and develop remediation/action plans as needed in concert with RMGO. 

• Act as focal point for local deployment of Vaccines or enterprise-wide digital tools, e.g., Plai, to help the Medical team leverage essential resources for executing medical activities. Develop and recommend strategies based on information and insights to optimize medical initiatives and outcomes, specifically supporting our ambition to be the first bio pharma company powered by AI at scale. 

• Develop strategies for continuous process improvement and simplification to support and advance business objectives related to Medical activities. 

• Develop and own strategic knowledge-sharing processes to drive alignment across teams, managing and executing transversal and global projects to enhance collaboration and achieve organizational goals. 

• Lead and develop the procurement-to-payment process, contracting, and tiering strategies, while providing comprehensive support for grants and donations management, Transfer of Value, including overseeing submissions, approvals, POs, contracts, invoicing, payments, documentation, reconciliation, and archiving. Drive the optimization and ownership of these processes to ensure efficiency, compliance, and seamless execution." 

• Establish and execute a rapid plan to move all appropriate work to SBO team and then assume a monitoring role to ensure appropriate implementation.    

• Act as SBO Liaison, ensuring strong connection, clear expectations, and delivery on commitment, and movement of repetitive and tactical work to SBO team in collaboration NA Medical Leadership. <