Employee Life Cycle Excellence Lead Africa
Sanofi
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Upgrade to Pro — $25/moThe main purpose of this role is to Drive operational excellence across the
entire employee lifecycle (hire to exit) by optimizing processes, systems, and data
driven insights and ensuring a seamless, efficient, and employee-centric experience.
Key Responsibilities
• Drive operational excellence across PLC business processes (Hire, Onboarding, Job Change, Time, Termination and data quality.
• Responsable of systems efficiency in alignment with sanofi standards and global policies:
Deploy and evolve end-to-end ELC processes (onboarding, mobility, contractual changes, offboarding).
• Focal point for P&C System & tools requests: take ownship & follow-up on all Service, Support & change request related to systems development.
• Drive performance analytics: own KPIs and SLAs, lead data quality reviews with countries, run audits and remediation plans.
• Payroll Inputs Control for Africa.
• Follow up on PLC actvities supported by Hub’s.
• Manage local legal specificities, with a focus on African countries.
• Drive continuous improvement: identify opportunities for simplification and harmonization across Africa.
• Ethical Leadership Take accountability for the P&C tools and systems provided, maintain strong knowledge and support smooth adoption, demonstrating leadership in applying these across all assigned work.
What We Expect From You:
• A mindset geared toward continuously improving employee satisfaction.
• Taking and anticipating action rather than waiting to be told.
• Embodying the "One Sanofi" spirit
Profile Sought:
• Proven experience in HR operations / People Services.
• Strong expertise on HR Systems & tools with a good level use of IA tools.
• Fluent in French & English.
• Hands-on experience using AI tools to improve HR operations (e.g., data quality, reporting, process automation)
• Cross-functional, People leadership & influence.
• Strategic Thinking.
• Good knowledge of labour law and African HR practices.
• Ability to identify, prioritize and drive AI and automation opportunities.
Collaboration:
The Employee Life Cycle Excellence Lead Africa works closely with People Life Cycle Head Africa, People Excellence (PE), T2P, Digital Business Partners, Workplace Experience, and People Services front-line teams across countries and regions. The role may be assigned specific sub-processes or countries.
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.
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