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Team Production Manager

5 day weekGenerous PTO€54k – €73kHybrid · Ambarès, France

The 4-day week in France

Job title: Production Sector Manager

  • Location: Ambarès (near Bordeaux)
  • Grade: L3
  • Hiring Manager: Rémy MOULIN

About the role:

As Sector Manager within our Autonomous Packaging Unit, you will define and drive the performance actions of your workshops by relying on the unit's multidisciplinary team. Finally, you will manage the deviations, actions and HSE and Quality initiatives related to your activities. Ready to get started?

The Ambarès site, where this position is based, is part of the group of sites "New Product Launches", itself integrated into the Global Business Unit "General Medicines" of the Sanofi industrial network. The Ambarès site has the distinctive feature of a dual mandate: producing major therapeutic medicines for patients every day, but also ensuring the success of new product launches. Indeed, the site is a true launch platform for new medicines.

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 – allows 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:

  • Ensure the resources needed for packaging medicine batches, from the implementation of components and materials, through performing checks, cleaning and traceability of operations, to the reconciliation and closure of the production order.

  • Manage the status and monitoring of equipment, materials and premises in their sector to maintain their good condition and proper functioning.

  • Manage their team, from leading shop-floor meetings to building staff schedules, deploying the training plan, conducting interviews and monitoring their staff.

  • Apply and enforce HSE and Quality fundamentals daily through managerial visits, self-inspections, and the execution of the PASS (Health Safety Security Action Plan) and PLAQUAL (Quality Action Plan) programs.

  • Measure the performance of their workshops, identify necessary actions and report on their activity, as well as difficulties and successes encountered.

About you:

  • Experience: Operational management experience in an industrial environment.
  • Technical and interpersonal skills: Leadership, hands-on field presence, analytical and critical thinking, methodical, comfortable with public speaking.
  • Education: BAC+5 (e.g., Engineer and/or Pharmacist).
  • Languages: French and English.

Why choose us?

  • Transform lives around the world by delivering essential treatments, everywhere and at all times.

  • Work in an environment where you can grow, thrive and have a real impact, a workplace that lets you give your best every day. Work with AI, robotics and next-generation automation to redefine manufacturing and distribution on a global scale.

  • Contribute to the launch of more than 30 new products by 2030, so that patients receive their treatments faster than ever.

  • Develop new skills, explore cross-functional roles and work in an environment that values learning and discovery.

Always Progressing. Discovering 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 opportunities, 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.

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!

The salary range for this position is :€54 400,00 - €72 533

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.