Deputy Director End to End Project Controller

Sanofi; Swiftwater (Monroe County); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Sanofi is seeking a Deputy Director End-to-End Project Controller in Swiftwater, PA. You will lead cross-functional, end-to-end planning and execution for Investment projects, ensuring budgets and schedules are adhered to while coordinating with VIA US Finance, project teams, and leadership.

Responsibilities include building integrated project plans, managing resources, forecasting, and reporting variances.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required in Business, Engineering, Science or any field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a similar type of role.
• Experience with project budgets, schedules and cross-functional coordination.
• MS-Excel and MS-PowerPoint proficiency.
• Planisware SHINE and SAP experience; PMP certification.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end planning and execution for Investment projects and portfolios.
• Manage schedules, budgets, communications and risks to meet objectives.
• Build integrated project plans, identify critical paths and milestones.
• Coordinate cross-functional project teams on budgets and timelines.
• Provide consolidated financial and timeline information to leadership.
• Support governance with scope changes and change impact analyses.
• Drive process improvements and share lessons learned across PMF.

Skills

5+ years experience

Project Management

MS-Excel

MS-PowerPoint

SAP

Planisware SHINE

PMP

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Planisware SHINE

SAP

MS-Excel

MS-PowerPoint

Job description

Job Title: Deputy Director End-to-End Project Controller

• Location: Swiftwater, PA

About The Job

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.

Main 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.

About You

Basic Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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)

Why choose us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.
• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.
• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention andwellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.
• Shape the future of medicine and vaccine delivery with cutting-edge technology, ensuring seamless launches and a resilient global supply.
• Power industry-leading performance by leveraging digital, data, and AI-driven innovation – at speed and scale
• Transform lives worldwide by delivering life-changing treatments anywhere, anytime.

Sanofi US Services and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity employers committed to a culturally inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.