M&S Graduate Program-Portfolio Manager-Shanghai
Sanofi
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About Sanofi
We’re an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.
About Manufacturing & Supply (M&S)
Join a global network that powers how Sanofi delivers — seamlessly, purposefully, and at scale. In Manufacturing & Supply, you’ll help reimagine how life-changing treatments reach people everywhere, faster, reliably, sustainably and affordably, at the quality levels expected.
About the Program
Your Journey to Manufacturing Leadership Starts Here
The M&S Graduate Program is Sanofi's flagship early career accelerator, designed to fast-track exceptional talent into M&S China's core leadership pipeline. Over 3 years, you will gain cross-regional, cross-functional business immersion across critical M&S operations — building deep operational expertise, strategic thinking, and global perspective through real-world challenges. With industry-leading executive support — including a Site Head as your Career Sponsor and a Global M&S Leader as your dedicated mentor — you will benefit from direct access to M&S China Cluster and Global Business Leaders through regular executive dialogues, a personalized development journey with external professional coaching, and targeted capability building in Digital & AI, critical thinking, and leading change. This is your express lane to becoming a strong successor in M&S China's core leadership team.
Main responsibilities职责描述：
1. BD Product Management
• Lead the Industrial Product Team (IPT) in defining industrial product strategy including product presentations, capacity/investments, dual sourcing, and COGS requirements/improvements in alignment with business unit requirements and company priorities
• Define the industrial product roadmap with prioritization of lifecycle programs and required investments against product drivers
• Act as key pillar in M&S China Strategic Plan preparation for all topics related to assigned products and associated industrial network (activity allocation, back-up strategies, long-term industrial footprint, asset management)
2. Operational Excellence & Risk Management
• Oversee execution of the industrial roadmap, including critical projects aligned with product drivers, long-term capacity and supply planning, long-term regulatory strategy, and supporting commercial lifecycle management
• Foster effective and dynamic resource/budget allocation to projects aligned with portfolio prioritization and requirements
• Provide input to DS and DP Sourcing/CMO selection and scenario planning beyond the M&S perimeter; lead initiation and preparation of necessary sourcing cases
• Set up commercial and tech transfer governance together with EM&S, Commercial, Site, Supply Chain, and MSAT
3. Cross-Functional Collaboration & Continuous Improvement
• Collaborate with functional leaders (heads for MSAT, Quality, Regulatory, Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, etc.) to execute the industrial product mission
• Deliver industrial expertise with communications adapted to non-industrial experts across the organization
• Foster sharing and application of best practices to increase efficiency and harmonize ways of working
• Contribute to adapting the M&S Operating Model and ways of working by providing new ideas and participating in continuous improvement initiatives
We're not just filling a role — we're investing in a future leader. Here's who we're looking for:
Experience: 2–3 years of experience in a specialized function — such as manufacturing operations, engineering, quality, supply chain, R&D, or digital/data
Education: Master's Degree required; STEM background (Engineering, Life Sciences, Chemistry, Computer Science, or related discipline) or top MBA strongly preferred
Languages: Fluent in English
Geographic Mobility: Open and able to relocate across China and potentially globally during and after the program; see mobility as an opportunity to accelerate your development, not a constraint
Soft and technical skills:
This program is designed to give you an advantage in your leadership career. Here is what you can expect:
Why choose us?
Pursue Progress. 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.
At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.
Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!
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.
Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!
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