PMO & Launch Lead Vaccines UKIE

Job Title: PMO & Launch Lead Vaccines UKIE

Location: Reading, UK

About the job

As PMO & Launch Lead Vaccines UKIE, you'll play a dual strategic role supporting the General Manager Vaccines UK&I. This position combines Chief of Staff responsibilities (75%) with Launch Excellence leadership (25%), ensuring seamless execution of our vaccines business priorities while driving launch excellence across our near-term portfolio including flu, COVID, and RSV.

Join the team protecting half a billion lives every year with next-gen science, mRNA innovation, and AI-driven breakthroughs. In Vaccines, you'll help advance prevention on a global scale - and shape the future of immunization.

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.

Main responsibilities:

PMO & Chief of Staff to GM Vaccines (75%)

• Partner closely with the GM Vaccines to manage GBU priorities, facilitate governance, and act as strategic interface across the Vaccines Leadership Team and broader organization

• Drive Vaccines GBU governance including Leadership Team meetings, offsites, townhalls, and franchise reviews with agenda management, action tracking, and briefing coordination

• Lead strategic project management for critical GBU initiatives, leveraging cross-functional resources and ensuring alignment with business priorities

• Leverage and embed agile principles, project management, and ways of working across the vaccines GBU for operational excellence

• Monitor strategic roadmap execution through KPI tracking and performance management

• Serve as point of entry for company-wide projects, connecting stakeholders and ensuring GBU input

• Manage confidential information with discretion and navigate strategic matters with appropriate sensitivity

Launch Excellence Lead (25%)

• Leverage SILC (Sanofi Integrated Launch Capability) framework at local level to support flu, COVID, and RSV near-term launches

• Establish launch governance and change management processes, ensuring deep understanding of launch excellence best practices across teams

• Support brand teams and track core launch activities, ensuring must-do deliverables are completed on time

• Develop risk mitigation plans and manage launch-related issues

Ethical & Safety Leadership

• Maintain knowledge of ethics and governance relevant to the role (Industry Code of Practice, Sanofi Policies, legal requirements)

• Care for own safety and wellbeing and the safety of others, conforming to Company safety rules and procedures

About you

Main Requirements:

Experience: Pharmaceutical/Vaccines industry experience with progressive responsibility in PMO, strategic project management, or Chief of Staff roles; launch experience in vaccines or specialty care; proven ability to lead through influence in matrix environments

Skills: Strong PMO and planning capabilities with ability to lead complex programs at pace (PMO certification preferred); excellent problem-solving, analytical and strategic thinking; strong communication and presentation skills at management level; high resilience and ability to thrive in ambiguity; self-awareness and versatility for upwards and sideways influence; ability to manage confidential information; demonstrated cross-functional collaboration and bridge-building; solution-oriented and pragmatic mindset; comfortable embracing digital and technological advances

Education: Advanced degree in Life Sciences, Medicine, Pharmacy, Business Administration, or related field

Languages: Fluent English required

Why choose us?

• Work at the forefront of AI-driven research, smart manufacturing, and groundbreaking mRNA platforms that are redefining the future of immunology

• Help protect half a billion people every year, contributing to one of the largest global vaccination efforts in healthcare

• Develop your career with access to mentoring, international mobility programs, and opportunities to grow across four continents

• Play a pivotal role in shaping vaccines strategy and launch excellence in the UK&I market

• Join a workplace where diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core, with Employee Resource Groups and leadership programs that celebrate every voice

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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.

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