+ Role Title - Head of Operational Readiness M&S + _Hiring Manager:_ _Global Head of Operational readiness_ + _Location: Hyderabad_ + _30% of travel expected_ + _Job type: Permanent, Full time, Hybrid (as per policy)_ **_About the job_** **Our Team:** Our ambition: deliver best-in-class enterprise services enabling Sanofi to chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives. Sanofi has been building the foundations of enterprise services over the past few years. With the creation of the global business unit Business Operations (BO) in 4Q 2023, we have elevated our commitment to innovation and excellence. BO plays a key role for Sanofi in modernizing the way we work. An expert leadership team, passionate about leading high performance. We are building for the long term. We bring people together – many of them in our four hub locations around the world - simplifying processes, breaking down barriers and rapidly cross-fertilising the best ideas across Sanofi. **Our critical success factors:** Community - Building a vibrant team that will attract and engage talent, with four global hubs. Excellence - Simplifying, standardizing and continuously improving processes to capture synergies, scale effects and productivity improvements. Digitalisation - Enabling transparency, data-driven decision-making support, agility and rapid innovation across Sanofi's entire value chain. **Role Overview:** The Head of M&S services operations readiness will closely partner with M&S Services leadership to design and implement operations transition to the hub, actively participating to the modernization of M&S while maintaining business continuity and compliance with pharmaceutical industry standard **Main responsibilities:** + Define target operating models for M&S services processes to be transferred to hubs and lead impact assessment vs the current stage + Lead complex process transition to hubs while ensuring business continuity + Build Global roadmap for M&S services transition: Transition projects size, sequencing, need for capability building, interdependencies identification, etc. + Develop and implement effective knowledge transfer in close collaboration with M&S SMEs + Lead process and activities documentation in close collaboration with M&S SMEs as the backbone of continuous improvement + Define and lead the transition governance structure in strong collaboration with M&S services transformation team + Identify, highlight and address function-specific transition risks, developing targeted mitigation strategies for complex process transitions, understanding and meeting business needs. **_About you_** **Experience:** + Strong partnership and One Sanofi mindset, working with a large stakeholders group + Extensive experience in large scale and complex operations transformation + M&S background in quality and/or supply chain is a plus + Proven track record in designing and implementing operational models + Experience in leading international teams **Languages:** + Fluency in English; additional languages are beneficial **Education:** + Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree in Business Administration. **Soft skills:** + Demonstrated problem-solving skills + Strong analytical skills + Capacity to handle mutltiple stakeholers in a complex and changing environment **Pursue** **_progress_** **, discover** **_extraordinary_** Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But 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. So, let’s be those people. At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity. Watch our ALL IN video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkpDBZ-CJKw&t=67s) and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com (https://www.sanofi.com/en/our-responsibility/equality-and-inclusiveness) ! Global Terms & Conditions and Data Privacy Statement (https://www.sanofi.com/en/careers/global-terms-and-conditions/) Sanofi is dedicated to supporting people through their health challenges. We are a global biopharmaceutical company focused on human health. We prevent illness with vaccines, provide innovative treatments to fight pain and ease suffering. We stand by the few who suffer from rare diseases and the millions with long-term chronic conditions. With more than 100,000 people in 100 countries, Sanofi is transforming scientific innovation into healthcare solutions around the globe. Discover more about us visiting www.sanofi.com or via our movie We are Sanofi (https://youtu.be/96EwNjb1TLo) As an organization, we change the practice of medicine; reinvent the way we work; and enable people to be their best versions in career and life. We are constantly moving and growing, making sure our people grow with us. Our working environment helps us build a dynamic and inclusive workplace operating on trust and respect and allows employees to live the life they want to live. All in for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Sanofi - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkpDBZ-CJKw&t=2s)