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Where your curiosity drives the
miracles of
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Team Leader and Senior CMC Material & Documentation Flow Manager
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.
- 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 CMC Integrated Demand & Supply Planning team as a Team Leader and Senior CMC Material & Documentation Flow Manager and you’ll have two main missions:
Team Leader (20%):
As solid line manager to the CMC material & Documentation Flow Managers:
- Act as liaison for team members and go-to person for all administrative and P&C relevant topics
- Conduct individual development discussions and compensation cycles
As dotted line manager of the CMC Demand & Supply global organization:
- Closely collaborate on the onboarding and training of newcomers to ensure timely and quality delivery of assigned tasks
- Contribute to measuring team and individual performance through defined KPIs
- Develop resource capacity as needed to align with the workload assigned
Senior CMC Material & Documentation Flow Manager (80%):
- Support CMC Integrated Demand and Supply team in the management of material and documentation requirements for product flows (DP or MP) under the accountability and supervision of / and the timelines defined by Demand & Supply Leader assigned to a given project.
- Provide daily support for the efficient coordination of Drug Product (DP) and Marketed Products (MP) receipt and transfer in the context of clinical and non-clinical development by execution of Material Flow Management (MFM) services:
- Create and maintain material codes in ERP systems
- Execute ERP transactions (Purchase Orders and Transfers Orders)
- Coordinate Drug product transfer from manufacturing facilities to packaging facilities
- Oversee Drug Product (DP) flow management for Contract Manufacturing Organization (CMO) Packaging
- Coordinate and execute Drug Product destruction plans
- Serving as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Qualipso and provide technical support for Qualipso events management (including CMO/FSO) (e.g., temperature excursion management, deviation handling)
- Filling product documents such as Product Information Document (PID), Drug Product Study Document (DPSD), Traceability reports, Technical Conditions for DP shipments
- Filling products data in D&S tools such as COMPASS, Demand Module (DMM), RDPM
- Request of product documents to the appropriate owners as prerequisites for DP handling such as TOR, quarantine and shipment authorization, CoR/CoA, US customs documentation, preparation and tracking of French Import License request form
- Provide customs documentation expertise and support in documentation management in compliance with regulatory requirements, e.g., US customs documentation, CN customs requirements definition and French Import License request form preparation and tracking
- Support operational planning activities by providing DP schedule information to CSC Operations warehouse
About you
Education / Experience :
- Bachelor of Science (BS) degree, or ideally Master’s degree or equivalent with at least 3-5 years’ experience in pharmaceutical industry with experiences in supply chain, CMC, and/or clinical fields
- GMP certification is a plus
Technical skills & Competencies :
- Inspiring manager with strategic thinking
- Ability to develop people, build a talent pipeline, and serve as a role model
- Critical thinking and ability to challenge the team and oneself
- Strong knowledge of the pharmaceutical landscape
- Strong knowledge of CMC and Clinical Supply Chain processes and systems
- Project Management skills, with the ability to prioritize, adapt to evolving demands, think pragmatically, and solve problems
- Digital skills and strong appetite to work with multiple tools
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to work collaboratively and productively with multicultural groups of stakeholders
Language(s):
- Proficiency in written and spoken English is required to interact with multiple stakeholders worldwide
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 2025" 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)
Office of the Year 2025 – Evolution Award
Our most recent award – Sanofi is recognized for creating an innovative workspace that supports collaboration and adaptability.
Marketing Diamond Award 2026 – Employer Branding
One of the highest honours at Hungary's prestigious Marketing Diamond Awards, recognizing excellence in employer branding.
BSC Investor of the Year 2025
Awarded by HIPA, ABSL Hungary, and AmCham Hungary for our contribution to Hungary's business services sector.
PwC Workforce Preference Survey 2025 – Top 3 Most Attractive Employers
Ranked 3rd among the most attractive employers in Hungary.
Hungarian Employer Branding Awards 2025 – Gold & Silver
Best Strategic Employer Branding Campaign (Gold) and Best Employer Branding Campaign in the Pharma Sector (Silver).
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.
At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
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Final compensation will be determined based on demonstrated experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs.
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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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