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M&S Graduate Program-Project Manager Trainee-Shanghai

Shanghai, China
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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.

Job title: M&S Graduate Program-Project Manager Trainee

  • Location: China, Shanghai

About the job 工作职责

About Sanofi

We’re an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.

About Manufacturing & Supply (M&S)

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, reliably, sustainably and affordably, at the quality levels expected.

About the Program

Your Journey to Manufacturing Leadership Starts Here

The M&S Graduate Program is Sanofi's flagship early career accelerator, designed to fast-track exceptional talent into M&S China's core leadership pipeline. Over 3 years, you will gain cross-regional, cross-functional business immersion across critical M&S operations — building deep operational expertise, strategic thinking, and global perspective through real-world challenges. With industry-leading executive support — including a Site Head as your Career Sponsor and a Global M&S Leader as your dedicated mentor — you will benefit from direct access to M&S China Cluster and Global Business Leaders through regular executive dialogues, a personalized development journey with external professional coaching, and targeted capability building in Digital & AI, critical thinking, and leading change. This is your express lane to becoming a strong successor in M&S China's core leadership team.

Main responsibilities职责描述:

1. BD Product Management

     Lead the Industrial Product Team (IPT) in defining industrial product strategy including product presentations, capacity/investments, dual sourcing, and COGS requirements/improvements in alignment with business unit requirements and company priorities

•     Define the industrial product roadmap with prioritization of lifecycle programs and required investments against product drivers

•     Act as key pillar in M&S China Strategic Plan preparation for all topics related to assigned products and associated industrial network (activity allocation, back-up strategies, long-term industrial footprint, asset management)

2. Operational Excellence & Risk Management

•     Oversee execution of the industrial roadmap, including critical projects aligned with product drivers, long-term capacity and supply planning, long-term regulatory strategy, and supporting commercial lifecycle management

•     Foster effective and dynamic resource/budget allocation to projects aligned with portfolio prioritization and requirements

•     Provide input to DS and DP Sourcing/CMO selection and scenario planning beyond the M&S perimeter; lead initiation and preparation of necessary sourcing cases

•     Set up commercial and tech transfer governance together with EM&S, Commercial, Site, Supply Chain, and MSAT

3. Cross-Functional Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

•     Collaborate with functional leaders (heads for MSAT, Quality, Regulatory, Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, etc.) to execute the industrial product mission

•     Deliver industrial expertise with communications adapted to non-industrial experts across the organization

•     Foster sharing and application of best practices to increase efficiency and harmonize ways of working

•     Contribute to adapting the M&S Operating Model and ways of working by providing new ideas and participating in continuous improvement initiatives

About you 任职资格:

We're not just filling a role — we're investing in a future leader. Here's who we're looking for:

Experience: 2–3 years of experience in a specialized function — such as manufacturing operations, engineering, quality, supply chain, R&D, or digital/data

Education: Master's Degree required; STEM background (Engineering, Life Sciences, Chemistry, Computer Science, or related discipline) or top MBA strongly preferred

Languages: Fluent in English

Geographic Mobility: Open and able to relocate across China and potentially globally during and after the program; see mobility as an opportunity to accelerate your development, not a constraint

Soft and technical skills:

  • Self-driven & result-oriented
  • Thrives in fast-paced, dynamic environments
  • Solution-focused, with an ability to simplify processes and data to enable fast & effective decision making
  • Excellent problem-solving skills, analytical and strategic capabilities
  • Strong project management skills
  • Ability to influence and lead without direct authority, to cultivate effective relationships, and to influence and collaborate internally and externally at all organizational levels
  • Ability to see the big picture while managing critical details
  • Ability to work cross-functionally and internationally, strong team player
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

What You'll Gain 你会获得

This program is designed to give you an advantage in your leadership career. Here is what you can expect:

  • A structured 3-year leadership accelerator with clear milestones, defined rotations, and a guaranteed landing role — no ambiguity about where you are headed
  • Real-World Business Immersion: Cross-regional, cross-functional rotations in live business environments, building operational expertise, business acumen, and strategic thinking
  • Industry-Leading Executive Support: Dual mentorship from a Site Head and Global M&S Leader, with direct access to top leadership through regular executive dialogues
  • Personalized Development: Customized career roadmap, external professional coaching, and targeted capability building in Digital & AI, critical thinking, and leading change
  • Express Lane to Leadership: 3-year systematic cultivation positioning you as a strong successor for M&S China's core management team

Why choose us?

  • Shape the future of medicine and vaccine delivery through the use of cutting-edge Digital and AI-enabled technology solutions, ensuring seamless launches and a resilient global supply of our medicines and vaccines
  • Power industry-leading performance by leveraging digital, data, and AI-driven innovation – at speed and scale.
  • Be part of world-first initiatives like our Modulus factory, smart factories, AI-driven supply chain solutions, and provide thought leadership to the future of BioPharma manufacturing in ˜2035+.
  • Help deliver 30+ new product launches by 2030, ensuring patients get treatments faster than ever.
  • Develop new skills, explore cross-functional roles, and work in an environment that values growth and discovery
  • Be part of an organization that invests in people, technology, and sustainability, leading the industry in low-carbon manufacturing and digital transformation.

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.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

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

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.

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  • 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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