Job title: Sterility Assurance Manager
- Location: Val-de-Reuil (27)
- Contract type: Permanent contract (CDI)
About the role
As Sterility Assurance Manager within the Quality Department of our vaccine production site in Val-de-Reuil, you will be the key reference for contamination risk control and will contribute directly to the safety of the products that protect patients. Ready to get started?
Join the team that protects half a billion lives every year through next-generation science, mRNA innovation and AI-driven breakthroughs. In the Vaccines team, you will help advance prevention on a global scale and shape the future of vaccination.
About Sanofi:
Sanofi is a biopharmaceutical company that innovates in R&D and leverages AI at scale to improve people's lives and create long-term growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and our innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we pursue the miracles of science to improve people's lives.
Main responsibilities:
- Lead a team of 18 people: set objectives, monitor performance and develop each person's skills.
- Define, deploy and evolve the site's sterility assurance strategy, ensuring compliance with international requirements (cGMP, EU GMP Annex 1) and updating the contamination control strategy.
- Assess and control microbiological, particulate and endotoxin-related contamination risks, following environmental monitoring programmes and microbiological trends.
- Evaluate qualification practices for sterile areas, gowning and disinfectant management, and take part in the qualification and validation of aseptic processes, controlled-atmosphere areas and critical equipment.
- Approve investigations into microbiological deviations and monitor the associated action plans.
- Support production, validation, engineering and quality control teams in applying good aseptic practices, and train teams in a quality culture.
- Contribute to the preparation and conduct of regulatory inspections and customer audits, and ensure regulatory and scientific monitoring of sterility assurance.
What we offer:
A fixed salary over 12 months, supplemented by an individual variable bonus, as well as profit-sharing & incentive plans based on Sanofi Group results.
Because taking care of our employees is also our mission:
- Social protection & well-being: quality supplementary health insurance, maternity/adoption leave (18/14 weeks), enhanced support in case of illness, teleconsultation and a second medical opinion covered by Sanofi, as well as many other well-being programmes to discover here.
- Work-life balance: 31 days of paid leave + RTT days depending on your status, remote work up to 2 days/week
- Transport: public transport reimbursement up to 80%
- Savings & retirement: Group Savings Plan and PERCOL with employer matching, and PERO
- Professional development: internal and international mobility opportunities, continuing training
- And more: peer recognition and service exchange platforms among Sanofi employees (carpooling, home swaps…), many CSE employee benefits…
About you
Experience:
- Proven experience in sterility assurance at a pharmaceutical production site (injectable products), with a proven track record of European and American regulatory inspections.
- Team management experience is expected
Technical and interpersonal skills:
- Expertise in industrial microbiology and sterility assurance, knowledge of injectable product manufacturing processes.
- Hands-on approach and taking time to engage with teams
- Ability to influence and unite multidisciplinary teams,
- Excellent analytical, communication and decision-making skills.
Education:
- Higher scientific degree (Bac+5) or equivalent experience
Languages:
- Professional English (B2 minimum)
- Fluent French required
Why choose us?
- Join a passionate and committed team at the Val-de-Reuil site, recognised for the quality of its projects, and take on stimulating challenges at the heart of audit and inspection activities offering high visibility and exposure within the organisation.
- Join the forefront of AI research, smart manufacturing and innovative mRNA platforms that are transforming the future of immunology.
- Work in an international and innovative environment, with modern, digitalised manufacturing facilities.
- Take part in transformation and continuous improvement projects with high impact.
- Develop your career through access to mentoring, international mobility programmes and growth opportunities across four continents.
Always Progress. Discover the Extraordinary.
Join Sanofi and enter a new era of science – where your journey can be as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you so that you can go further, accelerate your thinking and accomplish what has never been done before. You will help push boundaries, challenge conventions and design smarter solutions for the communities we serve. Ready to pursue the miracles of science and improve people's lives? Let's pursue progress and discover the extraordinary – together.
At Sanofi, we believe in equal opportunity, without distinction of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or any other criterion protected by law.
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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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The salary range for this position is: €76,000.00 - €101,333
Final compensation will be determined based on demonstrated experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs.