M&S-China Launch Leader-Shanghai

Job title: China Launch Leader

• Location: Shanghai office preferred

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 China Launch Leader within our M&S China-BEI Site, will be to making best class medicines with excellent strategies and tools and delivering them to our patients.

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?

Main responsibilities

• Participate in China local BD projects to support
  • Technical, capacity, financial, launch strategy etc. assessment regarding manufacture and supply
  • Due diligence by request
  • Defining manufacture and supply strategy after deal or acquisition.
• Collaborate with global & local functions to incorporate the acquired new products into Sanofi M&S network.
• Lead commercial launch taskforce including but not limited to China affiliate, global M&S related functions, global and local sites, supply chain, China regulatory to ensure best-in-class launch from approval to launch. The key responsibilities including but not limited to
  • Prepare launch plan
  • Define budget and ensure budget adherence
  • Provide and maintain proactive risk management and mitigation plans
  • Identify and implement acceleration opportunities
  • Drive critical decision alignment within stakeholders
  • Report project status to the management and timely escalate key challenges for support
  • Ensure timeline adherence in execution to deliver best-in-class launch (from approval to commercial launch) of the new products
• Support launch to supply transition in lifecycle management
• Support new product sourcing preparation and ensure new product availability for the launch and future supply.
• Continue identify launch process improvement opportunities, drive alignment within stakeholders and deliver implementation to boost launch excellence
• Lead China launch guideline preparation and continue update according to launch environment and regulation updates

About you

• MS degree or above in biochemical engineering or biotech related field
• At least 3 years oversea training or working experience
• Minimum of 10 years working experience in pharmaceutical or biotech industry, minimum 5 years’ experience in biologics manufacturing, at least 3 years experience in GMP environment
• At least 3 years hands-on working experience in biologics preferrable in DS upstream/down stream process development and manufacture.

• At least 3 years project management experience

• In-depth knowledge in regulatory requirements in biologics registration and manufacturing
• Strategic thinking
• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills and experience working within a matrix organization

• Prioritization skills, strong focus and ability to structure and communicate complex concepts clearly and succinctly
• Leadership skills required to influence outcomes, communicate/collaborate with all levels of the organization, and facilitate development of solutions to address critical business needs
• Agility, Flexibility and ability to manage the ambiguity
• Strong interpersonal skills and customer oriented
• Fluent English
• Play to Win Behaviors: Stretch; Take Action; Act for Patients & Customers; Think One Sanofi

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.
• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.
• 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.

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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