
R&D
Where your curiosity drives the
miracles of
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Clinical Development and Operations Scientist
At a glance
Bring your curiosity to a team where deep immunoscience meets cutting-edge innovation. Across oncology, rare diseases, neurology, and vaccines, you’ll work at the intersection of lab science and AI-powered discovery — all while collaborating across boundaries to turn breakthrough ideas into real-world impact. Whether you want to deepen your scientific expertise or grow as a leader, you’ll find the opportunity here.
- Job title: Clinical Development and Operations Scientist
- Location: Budapest, Hungary
- Job type: Permanent, full-time
- Hybrid working
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 global Clinical Sciences and Operations team as a ClinicalDevelopment and Operations Scientist and you'll be responsible for representing Sanofi's interests in European public-private consortia, leveraging clinical expertise to influence and shape research outcomes that benefit both Sanofi and the broader research ecosystem.
Main responsibilities:
Scientific Strategic Alignment & Representation
Evaluate project proposals, leveraging access to published content, and prepare executive summaries for management decisions.
Coordinate Clinical Support Operation’s (CSO) scientific participation in European multi-stakeholder consortia projects and joint (private-public) project proposals, including proposal writing, in collaboration with relevant Sanofi business functions.
Represent Sanofi CSO's expertise in consortium meetings and ensure activities align with CSO strategic objectives.
Project Management
Develop and manage resource allocation plans, ensuring appropriate CSO expertise for consortium commitments.
Mobilize and coordinate Sanofi expert involvement and cross-functional team activities.
Support CSO work package leaders and contributors to ensure high-quality scientific deliverables, within set timelines.
Identify, monitor and mitigate project risks while managing dependencies across work streams.
Deliverables & Knowledge Management
Capture and document consortium outputs with potential internal value to CSO.
Maintain internal project tracking tools and contribute to value internalization plans.
Communication & Implementation
Provide regular status updates to senior management and steering committees.
Facilitate knowledge sharing with CSO business capabilities leaders.
Support development of internalization and implementation roadmaps for valuable consortium outputs.
About you
Experience:
Minimum 5 years’ experience in clinical/drug development and operations.
Previous experience in large multi-stakeholder, multi-organizational projects.
Strong understanding of drug development process and clinical trials.
Project management experience.
Soft Skills:
Exceptional stakeholder management and communication abilities.
Ability to lead without direct authority.
Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.
Creative, innovative and calculated risk-taking thinking.
Excellence in building and maintaining strategic partnerships.
Technical skills:
Strong scientific expertise in clinical research and development.
Project management and resource allocation expertise.
Excellent documentation and scientific writing skills.
Education:
Advanced degree in biomedical sciences (PharmD, MD, PhD in biological sciences or equivalent).
Language(s):
Strong English skills (verbal and written), ability to exchange fluently in a global environment.
Why choose us?
Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team in an international work environment
Work from an "Office of the Year 2023" award winner with flexible home office policy
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 and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave
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
Join a great community & special events (Monthly Board Game Nights, Summer Events, Well-Being Lectures & Sport Clubs)
PursueProgress. Discover Extraordinary.
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. You can be one of those people. Chasing change, embracing new ideas and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Let’s pursue progress. And let’s discover extraordinary together.
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Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science - where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what’s never-been-done-before. You’ll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people’s lives? Let’s Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary – together.
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Why work with us
- Expand your horizons. Grow through curiosity, with support to move, learn, and lead in a culture that champions mentorship, mobility, and bold development.
- Accelerate results with technology. Harness the power of AI and automation to push scientific boundaries and reimagine what's possible in drug discovery.
- Impact through inclusive innovation. Help deliver better science and fairer outcomes by driving inclusive research that reaches more people, in more meaningful ways.
- Turn patient needs into breakthrough science. Drive scientific breakthroughs that start with patient needs – and end in treatments that change lives.
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