Job title: Project Specialist – Diversity in Clinical Trials

Location: Budapest, Hungary

Flexible working: 60% office 40 % home

Job type: Permanent, Full-time

About the job

Are you ready to shape the future of medicine? The race is on to speed up drug discovery and development to find answers for patients and their families. Your skills could be critical in helping our teams accelerate progress.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

Join our Diversity in Clinical Trials (DICT) global team as Project Specialist – Diversity in Clinical Trials and you’ll support coordination activities for strategic projects, ensuring the efficient execution of processes and frameworks preferably through Agile methodologies. This role is responsible for supporting administrative tasks, managing timelines, and coordinating cross-functional teams to align with business goals. You will proactively track project milestones, report on risks, and continuously optimize processes to ensure successful completion of DICT programs.

Main responsibilities:

Administrative: 

• Support submissions (e.g Medical and Marketing Review Committee) for scientific congresses and patient-facing materials, legal, compliance, and data privacy reviews 
• Manage contracts and purchase orders with vendors and external partners   
• Schedule team meetings and minutes  

Project Planning and Tracking:

• Co-develop and maintain comprehensive project plans that map out activities, ensuring all stakeholders are aligned on timelines and responsibilities
• Promote collaboration and alignment among various, cross-functional teams; facilitate cross-functional communication and understanding
• Document management: maintain, organize and update materials in collaborative workspaces 
• Track project progress, ensure transparency and visibility of project progress, interdependencies, and bottlenecks across teams and stakeholders. Facilitate information flow and feedback loops to enable data-driven decision-making
• Support team initiatives and objectives, identify and recommend process improvements and other value-added initiatives

About you

Experience:

• 1-2 years of experience in project management, preferably within a pharmaceutical or healthcare environment
• Proven track record of leading and managing cross-functional projects
• Experience working with Agile methodologies to manage and deliver complex projects is desirable

Soft skills:

• Ability to guide cross-functional teams, with effective inter-personal skills ensuring alignment, clear communication, and efficient execution of activities in a fast-paced environment
• Possesses excellent communication and time management skills, effectively balancing multiple tasks while keeping stakeholders informed of project goals, updates, and risks

Technical skills:

• Ability to maintain project schedules, tracking key milestones, and ensuring dates are consistently updated and communicated.
• Strong skills in identifying and mitigating risks that could impact timelines or project success.
• Ability to update detailed project reports, dashboards and presentations for stakeholders, clearly highlighting project status, risks, and next steps
• Understanding of Agile frameworks such as Kanban, or Lean is an asset
•  MS office (including Teams, SharePoint) and project management tools

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree

Languages: Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

When joining our team, you will experience:

• An international work environment, in which you can develop your talent and realize ideas and innovations within a competent team
• An attractive, market-oriented salary and cafeteria benefits
• Flexible home office policy, with a possibility to work up to 60% of time from home / where you can easily schedule your office days
• Work from an "Office of the Year 2020" finalist office
• Collective life and accident insurance
• Yearly medical check-up
• An individual and well-structured introduction and training of new employees and we will dedicate a Buddy for you to better navigate in your first weeks
• Your own career path within Sanofi. Your professional and personal development will be supported purposefully
• Join a great community & special events (Monthly Board Game Nights, Summer Events, Well-Being Lectures & Sport Clubs)

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, gender identity or Veteran status.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!

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