Manufacturing and Supply
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Sustainability Program Specialist
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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.
Job title: Sustainability Program Specialist
- Location: Scoppito, Italy
About the job
As a Sustainability Program Specialist within our Global Engineering team, you'll drive the data systems, digital tools, and technical programs that power Sanofi's Planet Care sustainability commitments across our global manufacturing network. Ready to get started?
Join a global network that powers how Sanofi delivers — seamlessly, purposefully, and at scale. In Manufacturing & Supply, you'll help reimagine how life-changing treatments reach people everywhere, faster. Our Global Engineering Sustainability Team works hand-in-hand with sites and project teams across the M&S network to reduce energy and water consumption, minimize waste, and build the digital infrastructure that makes our Planet Care roadmap a reality.
Main responsibilities:
- Support Regional and Global Planet Care Leads in driving sustainability performance across M&S sites — identifying projects and verifying technical engineering solutions for our Planet Care roadmaps
- Build, maintain, and optimize sustainability data management systems, including reporting interfaces between project data and HSE platforms (PowerBI, Resource Advisor, SHINE, Sherpa, and others)
- Collaborate with HSE, Project Management, Automation, and Digital teams to streamline how sustainability data flows across the organization
- Develop management system documents and standards aligned with ISO 50001 and ISO 46001 requirements, supporting continuous improvement and readiness across the network
- Partner with Automation and Digital teams to define metering and monitoring requirements, ensuring site systems are future-ready and aligned with Smart Factory ambitions
- Support the development and delivery of digital training tools and sustainability training programs in collaboration with Building & Utilities subject matter experts
- Lead specific projects that advance and strengthen the overall Sustainability program across the M&S network
About you
Experience:
- Proven hands-on experience in industrial environments managing and optimizing building systems, utilities, energy, and water resources
- Background with large-scale data management and reporting tools, including Power BI
- Familiarity with ISO/OHSAS Management Systems (50001, 46001, 14001)
- Experience managing external partner contracts
Soft and technical skills:
- Strong project management and organizational skills
- Ability to analyze complex problems and make sound, data-driven decisions
- Good collaboration skills — build trusted relationships across sites and drive initiatives forward through strong project management in matrix environments
- Proactive and curious mindset — take initiative, seek improvements, and manage multiple priorities across a global network
- Solutions-oriented approach — understand site realities with empathy and propose practical solutions
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent
Languages:
- Fluency in English
- French language knowledge is a nice to have
Why choose us?
- Power industry-leading performance by working at the intersection of sustainability, data, and AI-driven innovation — shaping how our sites operate today and in the future
- Build unmatched breadth of knowledge by getting to know the entire M&S manufacturing network and all GBUs — giving you a truly global perspective few roles can offer
- Work with cutting-edge digital tools, smart metering systems, and next-gen automation as part of Sanofi's Smart Factory and digital transformation journey
- Develop new skills and explore cross-functional opportunities in an environment that values curiosity, growth, and discovery
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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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Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.
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.
Watch 'One day at Sanofi' and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion initiatives at sanofi.com
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
- We’re problem-solvers and pioneers. United by the belief that everyone deserves a healthier future. We create best-in-class vaccines that prevent disease and protect lives.
- Innovation drives us. From AI and mRNA to next-gen science, we push the boundaries to deliver first- and best-in-class vaccines for infectious diseases worldwide.
- Growth happens here. With bold investments in R&D and world-class facilities, Sanofians across the entire vaccine lifecycle are shaping the future of global health.
- We do what’s right. Sustainability and DE&I drive our positive global impact—because the diverse communities Sanofians represent are the patients we serve.
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