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Data Scientist
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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.
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Job title: Data Scientist
- Location: Vitry-sur-Seine
- Type of contract : Permanent
- Teleworking : 2 days/week
About the job
Sanofi Global MSAT (Manufacturing Sciences, Analytics and Technology) acts as a crucial link between our R&D and Manufacturing facilities, playing a vital role in securing the present portfolio and delivering future launches of high-quality and innovative drugs and vaccines. By driving its own transformation, Global MSAT fulfills an important function by providing day-to-day Manufacturing Support, focusing on technical and process aspects, effective Life Cycle Management, process robustness enhancement, and yield improvement to optimize performance.
Under the lead of MSAT and in partnership with many other functions (Manufacturing 4.0, Digital, M&S, R&D), the MSAT Process Data Science & Digital Transformation team (MSAT DSD team) reaches operational excellence in process development, optimization & sustainability by putting in place a true data driven organization. As one Team, MSAT DSD organization is the data/digital DNA within the processes allowing us to ensure best in class manufacturing & analytical processes focusing on data/digital innovations & excellence aiming at guaranty acceleration/securitization launches & improvement/sustainability for our current processes.
Within the MSAT DSD department, the MSAT DSD Recombinant Platform, in particular for immunology & oncology areas, accelerates digital transformation for MSAT Recombinant Drug Substance Platform and supports current and new products launch by Data Science and Digital innovations.
Reporting to the Head of the MSAT DSD Recombinant Immunology & Oncology Platform, the Data Scientist will provide the statistical support for the internal customers: MSAT USP (UpStream), MSAT DSP (DownStream) and MSAT Analytics. The Data Scientist will also be connected with other MSAT DSD people for harmonization, improvement, …
Main responsibilities:
- Implement the statistical methodology for a protocol.
- Carry out statistical analyses (including writing a report).
- Writing statistical procedures and instructions.
- Explain statistical results to customers (capacity to popularize statistics).
- Providing education to customers on data science/statistics.
- Bring statistical support in case of questions from health authorities.
- Conduct technical monitoring to implement innovative statistical methods.
- Assist in designing, developing, and maintaining data pipelines for manufacturing processes.
- Develop and maintain MSAT applications
- Participate in data architecture and visualization projects to support manufacturing decision-making.
- Support the digital transformation of manufacturing processes through data-driven solutions.
- Support and develop MSAT data pipeline (ETL).
- Models creation for yields improvement.
About you
- Master’s Degree or PhD in Data Science, Data Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics with minimum 5 years of experience in industrial statistics.
- Fluent in English.
- Rigorous, dynamic and pedagogue.
- Strong knowledge in statistics:
- Statistical Process Control (SPC) / Continued Process Verification (CPV) (e.g. calculation of control limits, tolerance intervals and of capability indices, control charts).
- Sample size / Power study.
- Comparability study.
- Prediction intervals.
- Population comparison (parametric and non-parametric tests, equivalence tests, …).
- Multivariate analyses/Machine learning algorithms (e.g. PCA, PLS regression, Random Forest).
- Linear and non-linear modelisation.
- Qualification and Validation of analytical methods (e.g. linearity, intermediate precision).
- Design Of Experiments (e.g. screening, factors study, optimization, robustness).
- Bayesian statistics.
- Strong knowledge in statistical software/progamming languages:
- JMP, SIMCA, Modde, Design Expert, PASS, R, Python
- Familiarity with SQL and database concepts.
- Eagerness to learn about cloud platforms, particularly Snowflake.
- Good understanding of version control systems, especially GitHub.
- Occasional trips to Sanofi immunology/oncology sites: Lyon Gerland, Geel, Framingham.
Why choose us?
- Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team
- Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally
- 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
- Play an instrumental part in creating best practice within our manufacturing facility
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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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