Continuous Improvement Lead

Job title: Continuous Improvement Lead

• Location: Bogotá, Colombia

About the job

Our Hubs are a crucial part of how we innovate, improving performance across every Sanofi department and providing a springboard for the amazing work we do. Build a career and you can be part of transforming our business while helping to change millions of lives. Ready? As Continuous Improvement Lead within our Business Operations team, you’ll provide Continuous Improvement leadership to help standardize and transform our end-to-end process. The role is focused on complex initiatives, that can span transversally across end-to-end process areas and regions, in an environment with a high degree of interdependancy.

Main responsibilities:

• Provide Continuous Improvement (CI) guidance to Business Operations department.
  • Maintain and promote the CI framework.
  • Contribute to Business Operations CI Program, especially during assessment, design and execution phases.
  • Provide consultancy, mentoring, coaching to CI initiatives.
  • Lead some CI initiatives, especially the transversal ones. Develop and provide supporting tools and methodology.
• Disseminate CI culture across Business Operations department
  • Design and execute CI training programs
• Contribute to CI governance with various stakeholders
  • Provide the right factual data to Process Owners so they can take the best decisions.
  • Identify and promote synergies across the different end-to-end process.
  • Liaise with other PE&I teams (e.g. Process Intelligence, Process Mining, Data, Automation, etc.) to reach the maximum of efficiencies.

About you

• Experience:
  • 3-5 years experience in GBS / BPO Shared Services industry or consulting industry.
  • Certification in CI methodology (Black Belt certified or any other equivalent ).
  • Knowledgeable in business process in scope (e.g. Finance, HR, Procurement, Manufacturing & Supply, R&D)
  • Proven track record of impactful contributions to CI programs with tangible results

• Soft skills:
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills, including with Senior stakeholders
  • Excellent written and oral communication & inter-personal skills, ability to develop high-quality documents
  • Ability to lead and motivate team members with indirect reporting relationships across multiple geographies. through a CI journey.
  • Entrepreneurial mindset, and ability to work independently and take initiative under pressure.
  • Strong collaboration mindset with ability to work with a group of people with different functional expertise.
  • Adaptability to deliver in ambiguous context, flexible, comfortable with changes.
  • Efficient analytical skills, attention to details.

• Technical skills: Knowledge/certification on Continuous Improvement methodology (Lean Black Belt).

• Education: Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Business Administration or Science

• Languages: Fluent in English is mandatory. Other language is a plus.

Why choose us?

• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
• You’ll be part of leading the first experiences a job seeker has with Sanofi and ensuring it is best-in-class and driving conversions.
• You’ll be part of a truly diverse cross-cultural team and can have real business impact.
• Flexible working policies, including up to 50% remote work.
• Private medical care, life and health insurance, and gender-neutral paid parental leave
• Colombia is one of Sanofi’s key locations for new talents, having a big footprint with the Bogota HUB and its best-in-class operation.
• Mexico and Argentina Play an instrumental part in creating best practice and innovation within our 3 vaccines production plants.

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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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