Project Controller, EVF

Time left to apply: End Date: January 24, 2025 (30+ days left to apply)

Job Requisition ID: R2765301

Job Title: Project Controller, EVF

Hiring Manager: Deputy Director Projects Control & GP

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.

Sanofi has added two new Evolutive Facilities to our global industrial footprint. These production units (EVF) represent the future of manufacturing. They allow us to increase our capacities while making production more flexible and respectful of the environment.

Fully digitalized, our Evolutive Facilities (EVF) will enable more responsive and flexible manufacturing across multiple vaccine and biological platforms including mRNA, while minimizing our impact on the environment. Our EVFs will help improve people’s lives by giving them faster access to more treatments.

Main Responsibilities:

• Manage the cost estimate of investment projects during the Evaluation phase, Feasibility phase, Conceptual Studies and Basic Studies:

• Analyze partial cost estimates established by the project team and consultants.
• Self-perform cost estimates (full or partial) as required.
• Aggregate cost information and identify necessary provisions to cover technical risks and contingencies with appropriate methodology (e.g. Monte-Carlo simulation).
• Prepare the cost estimate validation meeting and issue the final approved cost estimate synthesis according to the M&S standards.
• Update the project tools (SHINE…).

• Ensure project cost control during the engineering through execution project phases:

• Coordinate project cost control efforts on large, complex projects (100+ M€).
• Establish budget breakdown from the approved capital appropriation, elements contained in the cost estimate, and following company accounting rules.
• Follow commitments and work-in-place and issue a monthly dashboard.
• Issue project cost data and associated metrics in a timely manner.
• Actively identify and manage deviations or variations from baseline, analyze cost impact, and manage the gap.
• Alert the engineering project manager and project leader of deviations and propose corrective actions.
• Ensure compliance with project transfer and change management procedures.
• Use standard cost control tools as well as time-and-material (T&M) based and milestone (deliverable) based progress methods.
• Establish regular cost trends and determine the cost estimate at completion of the project.
• Reconcile regularly the comparison between project reports and ERP.
• Respond and comply with Finance requirements including budget, trend, closure…
• Update project tools (SHINE…).

• Establish the end-to-end project schedule according to the project scope:

• Analyze project planning requirements.
• Define schedule objectives with the project team.
• Set up schedule strategy including necessary float.
• Gather existing data (ex. benchmarks) and integrate sub-project schedules.
• Split project structure into consistent parts following a work breakdown structure.
• Establish the project detailed schedule with collaboration of project actors and inform them of short-term, middle-term and longer-term actions.
• Integrate partner schedules as required to build an integrated schedule.
• Update project tools (SHINE…).

• Ensure end-to-end project schedule control during project life cycle phases:

• Coordinate project schedule control efforts on large, complex projects.
• Develop schedule control tools and measure physical progress (earned value) on a regular basis.
• Follow up schedule performance index notably the progress of milestones.
• Actively identify and manage deviations/variations from baseline, analyze schedule impact, and manage the gap.
• Warn the engineering project manager and project leader of deviations and propose corrective actions and ensure follow-up.
• Ensure compliance with project change management procedures.
• Support engineering project manager and project leader on scope changes and integration of associated impact.
• Establish and report regularly on the schedule dashboard (general overview, schedule level 2…).
• Establish general and detailed schedule progress curves.
• Update project tools (SHINE…).

• Coordinate the project controls team members throughout the end-to-end project lifecycle as well as ensure the interface with other relevant functions:

• Coordinate project controls team members (internals and externals) on large, complex projects.
• Evaluate competencies of costs and schedules project team resources and advise the Project Controls Head.
• Participate in costs & schedule/Technical/Value Engineering/Risk analysis Reviews.
• Evaluate and co-validate with Project Leaders Cost/Schedule/Good Engineering Practices risks mitigation actions.
• Ensure implementation and follow-up of mitigation actions with the Projects Leader.
• Alert project manager and project leader on timeline slippage, cost, and budget concerns.
• Assist project leader in organizing and facilitating project meetings, gate reviews.
• Provide regular project reporting based on pre-defined KPI’s and major deliverables.
• Ensure a link with Project Management Function including the end-to-end (E2E) project leader and E2E project control.

About You:

• Engineering degree with 15 years of experience within an industrial environment, ideally within the engineering, or another technical area or project management. Knowledge/experience in the chemical and/or pharmaceutical areas is preferred.
• Significant experience as a project controls manager (PCM) on large industrial investment (CapEx) projects.
• Competencies for managing a team and building transversal interfaces.
• Good relationship-building and communication skills through all levels of an organization.
• Customer-centric / Results-oriented / Teamwork mindset / Clear thinker.
• French language skills would be considered an asset.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence and build relationships across both internal and external program/project.

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But 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. So, let’s be those people.

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

About Us

Sanofi is dedicated to supporting people through their health challenges. We are a global biopharmaceutical company focused on human health. We prevent illness with vaccines, provide innovative treatments to fight pain and ease suffering. We stand by the few who suffer from rare diseases and the millions with long-term chronic conditions.

With more than 100,000 people in 100 countries, Sanofi is transforming scientific innovation into healthcare solutions around the globe. Discover more about us by visiting www.sanofi.com or via our movie We are Sanofi.

Why Sanofi

As an organization, we change the practice of medicine; reinvent the way we work; and enable people to be their best versions in career and life. We are constantly moving and growing, making sure our people grow with us. Our working environment helps us build a dynamic and inclusive workplace operating on trust and respect and allows employees to live the life they want to live.