R&D Global Study Supply Team Lead

Job Tittle: R&D Global Study Supply Team Lead

Location - Hyderabad

About the job

At Sanofi R&D, we develop future medicines that improve patients' lives worldwide. Our Clinical Supply Chain Operation (CSCO) department is responsible for packaging and distributing Investigational Medical Products (IMPs) to patients globally for clinical testing. The Supply Support Team Leader manage a group of Global Supply Study Supports (GSSS) and Investigational Product Supports (IPS) who provides support - on activities that can be centralized - to a worldwide team dedicated to clinical trials supply in charge to coordinate the flow of our investigational products ensuring quality, timely delivery, regulatory compliance, and accurate tracking through our internal systems.

The Supply Support Team Leader will report to the Clinical Study Support Head (India) and functionally to the Clinical Supply Chain International Management.

Act as liaison to global functional heads on business topics such as metrics, prioritization, and performance.

Main responsibilities include:

Clinical Trial & Supply Knowledge

• Understanding of clinical trial design, protocols, regulatory requirements (GxP)
• Understanding of clinical endpoints, patient randomization processes, study arms, dosing regimens, cohort management, stratification factors
• Understanding of investigational product management in clinical trial including kit types, shelf life, IMP production plan, depot management, IMP distribution, IMP reconciliation, returns/destruction.

Team Leadership & Development:

• Lead team meeting, provide clear direction, coach team members and develop their skills
• Ensure team qualification, expertise development, and comprehensive onboarding programs.
• Foster Sanofi’s culture through promoting open communication, collaborative teamwork and recognition of achievements.
• Drive continuous professional development of team members through targeted training initiatives.
• Performance management: set clear objectives/expectations and conduct regular performance reviews
• Strategic planning: align team objectives with organizational goals and develop action plans to achieve targets.
• Resource allocation: ensure optimal workload distribution to maximize team efficiency.
• Communication and reporting: maintain communication with team and stakeholders, provide regular status updates to Clinical Supply Chain International Management lead(s) and ensure timely information flow to all stakeholders.
• Problem resolution: proactively identify potential issues and challenges, implement effective solutions and ensure escalation to relevant stakeholders when needed.
• Process improvement: identify opportunities for efficiency gains and share best practices and innovation.
• Stakeholder management (internal and/or external): build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, ensure effective collaboration across functional teams.

About you

• Bachelor’s degree required (advanced degree preferred, scientific discipline preferred) with at least 7+ years of overall experience with 2+ years of people management experience in pharmaceutical production, Supply Chain, quality and/or clinical trials.
• Adapt to changing and challenging work environment, including changes in technical environments.
• Strong organizational and people management skills
• Ability to work effectively, proactively, and collaboratively in a worldwide, multi-cultural, multidisciplinary environment
• Effective communication both written and verbal
• Language: Near-native fluency written and oral in English
• Proficiency with MS Office applications (Word, Excel, SharePoint, PowerBI.