Continuous Improvement Leader - all genders – fixed-term contract until 30.11.2026 - #2136224

About the job

Our Team:

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. Your job, as Continuous Improvement Leader within our ICF FF Packaging will be to lead transformational initiatives and drive sustainable performance enhancements across all organizational levels by applying Lean and SMS 2.0 principles, coaching teams, and aligning improvement efforts with strategic goals.

As an Continuous Improvement Leader, you will play a pivotal role in transformational initiatives and driving continuous improvement principles (SMS, Lean) across the organization.

Your mission encompasses deployment and monitoring of SMS 2.0, driving continuous improvement, diagnosing area performance, developing improvement solutions, fostering a performance-oriented culture, and ensuring alignment with strategic goals, at all levels of the organization.

The Continuous Improvement Leader will collaborate with the APU, areas management, shopfloor teams and process owners to initiate and implement performance improvement projects/initiatives.

You will be serving either as a project lead, coach, empowering other employees on site to drive change, applying the lean and continuous improvement principles consistently and effectively, assuring impactful and quantified performance improvement, as well as sustainability.

Main responsibilities:

• Transformation & programs deployment and sustainment:

• Drive performance & transformation initiatives (e.g., SMS 2.0 deployment, Factory 4.0 solutions, etc.), actively supporting impact quantification, ensuring impact delivery and sustainability.

• Ensure inclusion of the effective use of Digital to transform site operations.

• Continuous improvement:

• Work with business leaders to identify process gaps that will be captured in continuous improvement plans and facilitated by the continuous improvement teams for impactful results.

• Lead waste elimination to build teams’ skills at identifying and eliminating waste.

• Support execution, CI (Continuous Improvement) standard deployment, problem solving, Operational Excellence (LEAN) methods.

• Maturity of the Sanofi Manufacturing System (SMS) 2.0: ensure process confirmation and sustainment of SMS standards (planning, owner, follow up, prioritization).

• Standardization:

• Ensure alignment to Global SMS 2.0 standards, including continuous improvement to standards and maturity of standards, replicating best practices across departments, and sharing across the organization.

• Ensure teams are utilizing the appropriate improvement methodology including training on tools and application as required.

• Industrial culture

• Drive a performance-oriented culture & instill a continuous improvement mindset throughout the organization.

• Ensure alignment with strategic goals, at all levels of the organization.

About you

• Experience:

• Bachelor of Science, Engineering, Business or Operations.

• 5+ years manufacturing experience or LEAN industrial experience with good understanding of overall business operations knowledge and Good Manufacturing Practices.

• Experience in leading complex and cross-functional initiatives.

• Project Management and Change Management experience preferred.

• Soft and technical skills:

• Highly Proficient in MS Office Applications including Excel, PowerPoint & PowerBi.

• Excellent Interpersonal and Influential Leadership Skills, and strong end-to-end Business Acumen. Demonstrates Leadership behavior for challenging status quo and driving Transformation.

• Ability to function within a diverse team, from shop floor to leadership.

• Ability to train and coach.

• Ability to adapt within rapidly changing business environment.

• Pragmatic, analytical and data driven with systematic problem-solving capabilities.

• Languages:

• Excellent Communication Skills both in English and German (verbal, written and presentation)

Why choose us?

• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.

• Benefit from a well-thought-out benefits package that rewards your contribution and commitment.

• We take care of you and your family with a wide range of health and social such as high-quality healthcare, numerous prevention programs and coverage for long-term illness. Our 14-week paid family leave for both parents is outstanding as well as a wide range of childcare benefits.

• Start your career at an attractive location in the center of Germany and experience our modern working environment and benefit from hybrid, flexible working time models.

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!

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

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!

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 visiting www.sanofi.com or via our movie We are Sanofi