Continuous Improvement Lead
Sanofi Group
**Our Team:**
This position is part of Sanofi Business Operations, within Process Excellence & Innovation organization and reporting to the Head of Continuous Improvement.
Process Excellence & Innovation (PE&I) drives continuous improvement and process excellence, ensuring existing service towers adopt a standard framework, methodologies, and tools to deliver upon end-to-end process excellence ambition.
The role will 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 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** :
+ 8-10 years’ experience in GBS / Shared Services industry or consulting industry.
+ Certification in CI methodology (minimum Lean Black Belt).
+ 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 (minimum Lean Black Belt from non-manufacturing)
+ **Education** : Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Business Administration or equivalent
+ **Languages** : Fluent in English is mandatory. Other language is a plus.
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