Associate Program Manager Medical

Job title: Associate Program Manager – Medical program management

•  Hiring Manager: Team Lead – Medical Program Management
• Location: Hyderabad
• % of travel expected: Travel required as per business need
• Job type: Permanent and Full time

About the job

Our Team:

Sanofi Business Operations (SBO) is an internal Sanofi resource organization based in India and is setup to centralize processes and activities to support Specialty Care, Vaccines, General Medicines, CHC, CMO, and R&D, Data & Digital functions​. Sanofi Business Operations (SBO) strives to be a strategic and functional partner for tactical deliveries to Medical, HEVA, and Commercial organizations​ in Sanofi, globally.

The Sanofi Business Operations (SBO) is built to reduce reliance on external services providers and facilitate the development of internal expertise. The Sanofi Business Operations will leverage untapped combination of talent pool.

Main responsibilities:

Associate Program Manager - support program management liaises with the relevant Business Partners, local team member and relevant stakeholders to ensure the below main responsibilities:

The team liaises with Specialty care GBU to ensure Management of budget including PO and WBS creation with follow up and budget tactics update, vendor follow up, therapeutics area activities like tactics and priorities tracking, coordinate for Privacy data management, SharePoint site creation and maintenance along with Internal calendar maintenance to track congress, events, internal meetings.

• Program Management:
  • Initiation & Planning
  • Execution
  • Monitoring & Controlling
• Track program performance using KPIs and metrics while managing changes to scope, schedule, and resources. Resolve issues, conduct regular status meetings, and ensure compliance with all internal and external standards.
  • Closure
  • Budget Management:
  • PO and WBS - the hub associate program manager will be responsible for creating and managing updates of all PO and WBS requests as per the Sanofi process, and prioritize based on the business needs; they will work closely with Medical Program Management (MPM) to update the budget tools
  • Budget tactics updates - the hub associate program manager will collaborate with the specific Therapeutic Area (TA) MPM Team, TA Medical team and Vendor/Agencies to track budget metrics changes, also following PO and WBS amendments
  • Ad hoc - The hub associate program manager will perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned
  • TA activities and priorities:
    • Tactics and Priorities tracking - Following the tracking of programs for budget purposes, the Hub associate program manager will work closely with the TA specific Medical and MPM Teams to collaborate to the management of the status tracking of the tactics and priorities (set by the Medical Plan and actualized in the Budget)
    • Privacy data - The hub associate program manager will work closely with the Medical and MPM team on program-related Privacy information and tools, in collaboration with the Global Data Protection Operations Department
    • Annual Budgeting Plan (ABP) - Following the tracking of programs for budget purposes, the hub associate program manager will work closely with the TA specific Medical and MPM Teams to collaborate to the management and organization of the ABP process, being responsible of following a very detailed governance to track team progresses in developing ABP content, collecting ABP drafts and facilitating discussions with Legal and Compliance for their approval.  The hub associate program manager will also be responsible of the management of the amendments of the ABPs throughout the year
    • Internal Calendar - The hub associate program manager will work closely with the TA specific Medical and MPM Teams to implement and manage an omni comprehensive Team Calendar, to track Congresses, Events, SRCs, Internal Meetings and ad hoc
    • Share Point site - The hub associate program manager will work closely with the TA specific Medical and MPM Teams to restructure, reorganize and maintain the Team’s Share Point site
    • Program Support: coordinating with vendors for data sets, engaging with external stakeholders as needed, communicating with the hubs and global team as per program’s need.
    • Ad hoc - The hub associate program manager will perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned
  • • Medical Evidence Generation support:
    • CSS SRC - The hub associate program manager will support the MPM team to manage the SRC review approval process effectively. They will collaborate with the MPM to collect pre-meeting material and documents to ensure a timely SRC review, and to develop post-meeting documents to register actions and decisions (e.g. meeting minutes and study’s approval forms). They will also be responsible for scheduling ad hoc meetings to discuss post-SRC follow up actions
    • Study ID cards - The hub associate program manager will support the MPM team to manage the study SRC documents and ID cards: creation, update/upload/archive into appropriate location defined by governance
    • Smartsheet tracking - The hub associate program manager will ensure the Smartsheet trackers are maintained updated, in coordination with cross functional stakeholders
    • CDA and Confidentiality Notice Management
    • Expert Consultancy Tracking
    • Cyber-grant Sponsorship
    • Support on One support ticket
    • Booklet including Expert profiles creation for Congress
    • Distribution List creation and maintenance
    • Ad hoc - The hub associate program manager will perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned
  • • Miscellaneous:
      • Other activities - The hub associate program manager will help with miscellaneous TA specific activities, as needed.

• • • People: (1) Maintain effective relationship with internal Sanofi stakeholders and the end user/Customers if applicable (2) Regular connects with Sanofi stakeholders and relevant teams and manages the team.
    • Performance: (1) Effective and efficient management of assigned programs to complete programs on time
    • Process: Governance processes to be defined and finalized before starting date, and used as metrics for the onboarding process
    • Stakeholders: (1) Identify and Align with key stakeholders for PO creation and Budget and metrics management 2) Liaise with relevant stakeholder for assigned task

About you

• Experience: 6+ years of experience in pharma/life-science companies with program management and finance/ budget tracking skills
• Soft skills: Stakeholder & Program management; communication skills; ability to work independently, in a timely manner, and within a team environment. User, planning and financial tool Management. Planning and analytical skills
• Technical skills: Proficient with Microsoft Office (i.e., Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, and Outlook), Smartsheet, other planning tools, financial tools
• Education: Bachelor/ Master’s degree required – life sciences, with Business Management as a plus
• Languages: Excellent knowledge of English language (verbal and written)