​Reference No. R2735568

Position Title: Head of Asset Management - Vaccines

Department: Engineering Vaccines

Location: Toronto, Ontario

Sanofi Vaccines

Sanofi's global vaccines business unit partners with the public health, medical and scientific communities to improve access to life-protecting vaccines and increase vaccination coverage, while striving to develop new and improved vaccines to enhance health and well-being.

At Sanofi, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.  We believe our cutting-edge science and manufacturing, fueled by data and digital technologies, have the potential to transform the practice of medicine, turning the impossible into possible for millions of people.

Position Summary:

Sanofi Vaccines, Manufacturing & Supply has 10 manufacturing sites globally. The Head of Maintenance and Calibration will work in a matrix organization to drive engineering performance improvements across these manufacturing sites, implementing best practices, and standardizing ways of working across.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a lead within Sanofi’s Global Maintenance Community, collaborating in a matrix organization with site engineering teams and other global engineering business units.

• Define and align best-in-class, Sanofi maintenance management standards, asset performance metrics, and improvement objectives across all Vaccine sites.

• Support the development of multiyear, continuous, site maintenance improvement programs aligned to VDM management methodologies.

• Drive the development of site master plans and reliability strategies across all Vaccines sites including strategy plans, obsolescence plans, OEE, spare parts management, etc.

• Collect and drive efficiencies to reduce site’s Total Maintenance Costs (TMC).

• Where needed support Maintenance, Compliance, and Performance (MCP) site projects to ensure sites maintain their cost competitive advantage.

• Partnering with sites and Procurement align a global standard organization and resource sourcing strategy to provide agile support for maintenance, calibration and project delivery.

• Partnering with Global Asset Management to standardize a digital asset management environment, including CMMS, calibration programs and predictive maintenance strategy.

• Partnering with HSE support the development on sustainable site objectives to meet Sanofi’s Planet Care objectives to reduce energy consumption, CO2 emissions, and reduce water usage.

• Champion a safety first, quality always culture across the organization including regular maintenance and project specific activities.

• Actively participate as a GMP asset management SME across both internal cross-function communities and external professional organizations to exchange and promote innovation.

Key Relationships:

• Global Engineering Team.

• Vaccines Manufacturing Site Engineering Teams.

• Other Global Business Units (GBU) Maintenance Leaders

• Procurement

• HSE

• Quality

• Digital, IT/IS

• R&D and MSAT

Key Requirements:

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Operations, or other similar, relevant disciplines.

• Minimum of 10 years in Engineering experience, having spent time at complex site or Sites and in a function with responsibility for maintenance, calibration and asset management.

• Experience of coaching, developing and influencing people at different levels of the organization in a matrix organization.

• Command of change management methodologies at leadership level.

• Ability to lead and drive global standardization.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to facilitate complex workshops and trainings and experience working with senior leaders within an organization.

• Lead, influence and engage stakeholders regardless of hierarchical position and build effective working relationships.

• Proven capabilities in program management.

• Good functional knowledge on business processes.

• Fluency in English.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to work transversally: cross-culturally and cross-functionally.

• High autonomy and strong transversal capabilities.

• Strategic vision/value creation understanding.

• Languages: French a strong advantage.

• Ability to travel occasionally both domestically and internationally.

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.

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Sanofi is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. Our goal is to attract, develop and retain highly talented employees from diverse backgrounds, allowing us to benefit from a wide variety of experiences and perspectives. We welcome and encourage applications from all qualified applicants.  Accommodations for persons with disabilities required during the recruitment process are available upon request.

Thank you in advance for your interest.

Only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.

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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 and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!