
Manufacturing and Supply
Where the
miracles of
science are made
a reality for patients
Visual Inspection Global Expert
Gentilly, France
At a glance
Our teams produce and deliver over 4 billion units of medicines and vaccines every year, ensuring every breakthrough gets to the people who need it most.
Our state-of-the-art facilities, AI-powered smart factories, and cutting-edge automation are redefining what’s possible: ensuring treatments reach patients faster, safer, and more sustainably than ever before. This is where your skills, ambition, and passion can shape the future of healthcare.
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Job title:Visual Inspection Global Expert
- Location: Lyon, Gentilly (France)
About the job
We deliver 4.3 billion healthcare solutions to people every year, thanks to the flawless planning and meticulous eye for detail of our Manufacturing & Supply teams. With your talent and ambition, we can do even more to protect people from infectious diseases and bring hope to patients and their families. Your job, as Visual Inspection Global Expert within our Quality technical experts Team, will be to drive the company strategy for visual inspection processes from an organizational, technical, skills, and regulatory standpoint. You will establish oversee and support the visual inspection program for Sanofi Manufacturing and supply sites.
Our Team of Quality technical Experts has the mission to provide support and technical expertise to enable all sites in all GBUs to supply medicines that meet the need of patients with less complexity, better efficiency, and highest quality standards. Our main focus areas are contamination control and microbiology, process and equipment validation, viral safety, visual inspection, and data integrity.
Main responsibilities:
- Author, review, or approve technical documents,including personnel qualification strategies, control strategies, investigations, change controls, expert opinions, qualifications, procedures, defect classifications
- Develop and implement harmonized procedures across manufacturing and supply sites
- Partners cross functionally to establish a philosophy for visual inspection and visual inspection qualification for the operators
- Support the development and implementation of process improvements to improve process control, yield, and/or productivity
- Support sites as a subject matter expert during regulatory inspections and internal audits
- Support the development and assists with implementation of training programs
- Support equipment selection and design as well as, process development activities
- Regularly interact with peers within the Manufacturing & Supply sites, Global Quality, and industry forums
About you
Experience:
- At least 5 years of experience (10 years is preferred) in visual inspection of liquid and lyophilized products
Soft and technical skills:
- Ability to influence and communicate to regulatory, business, leadership, and site staff on the topic of visual inspection
- Ability to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Experience with supervising and/or managing visual inspection process (manual, semi-automated, and fully automated)
- Experience in qualifying and operating visual inspection equipment preferred. Previous experience
Education:
- Bachelors in a Science Related field (or equivalent)
Languages:
- Advanced English and French level (written and spoken)
Why choose us?
- 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?
- Sanofi delivers 4.3 billion healthcare solutions to people every year
- With your talent and ambition, we can do even more to protect people from infectious diseases and bring hope to patients and their families
- We are a dedicated team of experts
- Our organization contributes to many of Sanofi’s highest priorities
- We work as a team with each other and our stakeholders
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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