Business Improvement Lead, GBU

• Job Title: Business Improvement Lead, GBU (Global Business Units)
• Location: Hyderabad
  

About The Job
At Sanofi we chase the miracles of science to improve peoples lives. We are dedicated to making a positive impact on the lives of the patients and families we serve, and we accomplish our goals through world-class research and with the compassion and commitment of our employees.
As we continue to transform the practice of medicine, the next chapter of Sanofis Play to Win strategy will require a focus on delivering transformation and simplification of our core processes, optimizing resource allocation and deployment to fuel business growth and investment in science.
To facilitate this transformation, a Business Operations Business Unit has been established, bringing together existing business service activities, and driving further expansion of centralized services at scale into a global unit, with a focus on driving simplification, efficiency, and productivity.
This Business Unit enables the delivery of best-in-class business support capabilities across the organization, incorporating and engaging disparate teams from across areas such as R&D, M&S, the Corporate Functions and Global Business Units (GBUs) into global Service Delivery Towers with initial services spanning Commercial, Finance, Procurement and People & Culture.
Reporting to the Head of Efficiency and Productivity, the Business Improvement Lead (BIL) - GBU plays a critical role in identifying and implementing initiatives that improve productivity so that scare internal resources and budget can be diverted to chase the miracles of science and fuel future business activities.
Main Responsibilities

• Productivity Strategy: Formulate and execute a comprehensive strategy for identifying and implementing productivity initiatives within your assigned scope.
• Analytics and Insights: Utilize advanced analytics techniques to extract actionable insights from procurement data, guiding the identification of key areas for improvement.
• Initiative Leadership: Lead cross-functional teams in the development and execution of productivity initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• Continuous Improvement: Proactively seek opportunities for ongoing improvements, recommending and implementing changes that enhance overall efficiency.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate closely with procurement teams, IT, and other stakeholders to understand business needs, ensuring alignment with productivity objectives. The stakeholders can be in any countries across the globe, such as USA, France or Germany for instance, which may mean to be ready to take late calls.
• Performance Communication: Effectively communicate the impact of implemented initiatives, providing regular updates to stakeholders and leadership on productivity gains achieved.
  

About You

• Experience: Experience in data analytics, insights generation, process optimization, or a similar role (Business Systems Analyst, Data Analyst, Procurement). Experience in the procurement, source to pay or supply chain domain in cross-functional and global teams. Proven track record of driving efficiency and productivity improvements in a business setting Ex: implementing data-driven strategies and process improvements. Exposure to some standard P2P tools such as Coupa (or similar), SAP MM
• Technical & Soft skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with good knowledge of data analysis and visualization tools (Power BI, SQL). Knowledge of procurement processes and industry-specific productivity metrics as it applies to numerous business units such as R/D, Scientific, Clinical, Commercial, Finance, Manufacturing, IT. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex analytics concepts to stakeholders within concentrated business units with various levels audiences. Collaborative mindset and ability to work effectively in a team environment
• Education: Bachelors degree in business Analytics, Operations Management, or a related field.
• Languages: Fluent in English (spoken and written).
  

Pursue Progress, discover Extraordinary
Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesnt 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, lets be those people.
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