mRNA CoE Resource Management Officer - Vaccines

Role Summary

mRNA CoE Resource Management Officer - Vaccines — Location: Waltham, MA

The Resource Management Officer is the partner of function heads and their department heads teams to monitor and manage demand and capacity in support of the Sanofi Portfolio through appropriate and efficient allocation of workload, resources and related insourcing need. The role supports the department heads in developing, justifying and clearly communicating the capacity needs targets based on planned workload and department Strategy. It also provides decision analysis that will guide in efficient resource management and work with the leadership in the development and management of the operational strategic goals for their department.

Responsibilities

• Represents Department Heads in all matters of workload and resources (demand, internal capacity, flex resources). This includes developing, presenting, and implementing their resources strategies. Develop and support maintenance of relevant analyses for evaluating activities planning and resource allocation to compare with the plans.
• Ensure optimization of resources per department/platform, per strategic direction and in agreement with senior leadership. Ensure ongoing activities are resourced effectively and efficiently, including alignment of operational and functional needs, to meet functional activities targets and deliverables.
• Review the forecasted internal workload by skill, by site and/or country with relevant SME. Manage requests for adjustments and require clear justification for changes within RDPM with the support of Operational planners‚Äô team. Ensure the consistency of the consolidated workload per site/country/platform/skill.
• Ensure that the standard FTE algorithms and standard template optimization are aligned with the deliverable per role. Assess algorithm development appropriately when deliverables, processes and process tools change. Coordinate with Operational planners and BSM for updating the algorithm in RDPM. Oversees continued definition and validation of standard functional-based deliverables, related activities and metrics for NV (part of Template team) and transversal consolidation for Non-NV portfolio.
• Contribute and support to the optimization of the utilization of the workforce for the department. Assist the departments in providing supporting documentation, analyses or report that would help in managing their workload to facilitate decision making. Anticipate bottlenecks (Resources and Production slots), supports conflict resolution, and develop mitigation plans to address gaps in demand and capacity.
• Coordinate with global and local shared services teams (Finance, P&C, ‚Ķ) on department processes for managing local budgets and headcounts.
• Work closely with functions and platform finance to manage forecasts to support FTE budget exercises. Leads the consolidation and reviews of the FTE budget and strat plan within their function. Drive the decision on insourcing allocation process within the function.
• Conduct planning and FTE simulations for function scenario, due diligence, new targets, external partnerships and ad-hoc requests to support functional assessments and assessment of new vaccine opportunities.
• Work with Function LT and Headcount manager in support of the department to manage headcount targets approved by R&D LT /Finance/P&C. Manage new open position request arbitration within the function and make the link with Resource committee. Provide support for Strategic Workforce planning exercise.
• Makes recommendations and manages implementation for continual improvement of R&D resource management processes.

Qualifications

• Earned Master's degree in business or scientific field
• 2+ years experience and strong knowledge of processes within operational organizations regarding planning & resource management/allocation
• Experience in biotech or pharmaceutical R&D, including knowledge of value chain and key contributing functions
• Experience in project & resource management is essential
• Strong analytical, synthesis and reporting skills, including a high level of attention to detail
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to work with multiple levels of stakeholders
• Ability to challenge the status quo and proactively propose changes, along with the ability to think strategically

Skills

• Planisware, PowerBI tools, Tableau and/or advanced MS Excel skills
• Proven negotiation and persuasion abilities in a business setting
• Knowledge regarding activities performed by multiple pharma functions/departments (CMC / Clinical / Research, etc)
• Knowledge of the vaccines development life cycle
• Proficiency in French would be a plus