Operational Planning and Capacity Specialist - VIE Contract

• Location: United States, Cambridge
• Target start date: 01/07/2026

iMove, the Sanofi VIE Program, is available to citizens of the European Economic Area (EU + Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland) aged between 18 and 28.

PLEASE NOTE that since this program is primarily an international development program, candidates cannot apply to a VIE assignment in their own country of citizenship.

PLEASE NOTE that applications that are only submitted in French cannot be considered by our non-French speaking partners at Sanofi worldwide. Therefore, only applications that are submitted in English will be considered. Please make sure to apply with your personal email address.

About the job

As Operational Planning and Capacity Specialist VIE within our R-TMU OPCM group, you’ll be focused on customizing, planning, and updating TMU & Research activities in R&D (Research & Development). This includes managing timelines and resources to reflect operational reality while ensuring alignment with the overall global project strategy. R&D scope is from Research to Preclinical and Clinical Development, and Product Life Cycle Management post initial market approval. In addition, you will be responsible for Business Intelligence and data analysis for the forecasting of workload and capacity.

Join the engine of Sanofi’s mission — where deep immunoscience meets bold, AI-powered research. In R&D, you’ll drive breakthroughs that could turn the impossible into possible for millions.

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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 people’s lives.

Main responsibilities:

• Be responsible for the accuracy of the entered plan and regular updates in the R&D planning tool (Planisware solution), and ensure that the project logic and the timelines are accurately reflected (for Research Project - the primary focus is to ensure the research workload is correctly reflected; for Development Project - ensure that the project strategy is correctly reflected into an operational planning, that includes all the necessary activities with the appropriate workload).
• Develop scenarios to make recommendations on optimization of timelines and of resources, and to support decisions for outsourcing if there is any bottleneck.
• Analyse the project deliverable timelines and critical path activities.
• Provide workload and capacity analyses and reporting to support the TMU Project Team, and Managers in the TMU Functions if assigned as Function Business Partner.
• Working in an international environment, regularly attend TMU Project Team meetings, planning meetings and other related meetings linked to project timelines and resources management (e.g., R&D governance preparation) and to OPCM business management.
• Business Intelligence support to the TMU group in TABLEAU or another reporting tool, develop new reporting data analysis tools for the forecasting of workload and capacity in support of TMU departments and project management.

About you

Experience:

• At least 1 year full-time professional experience related to the position, preferably in pharmaceutical or biotech industry.

Soft and technical skills:

• Analytical mindset, autonomous, proactive, rigor, adaptable, with advanced synthesis and reporting skills.
• Pragmatic and enthusiastic, with high team spirit.
• Strong communication and interpersonal relationship skills.
• General knowledge on Project Management.
• Skilled in computer tools such as Planisware (Project Management), Excel, experience in BI applications and data analysis.
• Knowledge on R&D Drug Development and business operational activities (Research, preclinical and TMU, Clinical Science Operations) would be a plus.

Education:

• Master’s degree in Health Engineering, Science, Computer Science or similar field.

Languages:

• Fluent in English (verbal and writing).

Why choose us?

• Be part of a pioneering biopharma company where patient insights shape drug development.
• Work at the forefront of AI-powered science that accelerates discovery and improves outcomes.
• Collaborate beyond your expertise, sparking new ideas with diverse, multidisciplinary teams.
• Work at the forefront of drug discovery, harnessing cutting-edge AI, data, and digital platforms to push the boundaries of science.
• Help improve the lives of millions of people globally by making drug development quicker and more effective.
• Join a workplace where diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core, with Employee Resource Groups and leadership programs that celebrate every voice.

iMove is a unique program tailored for European youth interested in challenging themselves with meaningful assignments across the globe. At Sanofi we have a strong ambition to invest in young talents who will drive the success of Sanofi tomorrow.

Sanofi’s Work Abroad Program, iMove, offers jobs-assignments with actual responsibilities and a perspective to grow. We provide those opportunities in various functions such as: marketing, finance, regulatory, supply chain, clinical trials, production, etc. and in more than 40 countries. Sanofi unites people who are passionate about solving healthcare needs across the world. Joining our iMove Work Abroad Program is a unique opportunity to make a difference through your work.

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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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