Head of MSAT Viral and Bacterial Platform, Vaccines Business Partner

Job Title: Head of MSAT Viral and bacterial platform and Vaccines Business Partner
Location: Swiftwater, PA

Join a global network that powers how Sanofi delivers — seamlessly, purposefully, and  Manufacturing & Supply, you’ll help reimagine how life-changing treatments reach people everywhere, faster.

Sanofi Global MSAT bridges our R&D and Manufacturing operations, ensuring both current portfolio supply sustainability and future launches of innovative vaccines and therapeutics. We drive manufacturing excellence through technical support, lifecycle management, and process optimization—all focused on delivering high-quality products to patients worldwide.

Join our dynamic global network where you'll help launch 3-5 new products annually across diverse modalities, expanding our reach to patients and communities globally. You'll collaborate with world‑class scientists and leaders dedicated to pioneering innovative industrial processes and analytical methods that support Sanofi's best‑in‑class ambition.

As Global Head of MSAT Viral & bacterial platform and Vaccines Business Partner, you will lead approximately 380 professionals across 6 countries focused on biopharma viral processes across Sanofi's Manufacturing & Supply Global Business Units. This influential role oversees industrial development using mRNA, viral and bacterial strains and cell based recombinant proteins, manufacturing support, Phase 3 clinical material production, CMC strategy development, and new product introductions.

Your leadership will directly impact Sanofi's financial performance, influencing a vaccines business generating >€10 billion in annual sales, including our critical Flu portfolio. Additionally, you will serve as the Industrial Development Business Partner for the Vaccines GBU, representing MSAT in executive leadership teams and scientific boards.

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.

• Shape and implement drug substance technology strategies that drive profitability, growth, and successful launches across Sanofi's vaccine portfolio

• Provide scientific and technological direction across vaccine modalities (cell culture, egg-based platforms, and microbial/pathogen systems, mRNA)

• Represent MSAT on the Vaccines Leadership Team while being the voice of Vaccines within the MSAT function

• Lead organizational transformation that empowers teams to deliver exceptional business value

• Foster a performance-driven culture that leverages cutting‑edge science and technology

• Develop talent and drive mindset shifts that enhance team capabilities and outcomes

• Take full accountability for process internalization, development and scale up, process validation, and control strategies for new products entering Manufacturing & Supply from R&D

• Ensure scientific leadership for commercial products (internal and CMOs) to prevent process‑related deviations

• Lead integrated teams of biotechnologists, virologists, bacteriologists, and process engineers to develop innovative, competitive, and sustainable manufacturing processes

• Secure intellectual property through strategic patent filings

• Lead MSAT internal pilot plant capabilities and GMP batch production

• Drive and integrate the strategic direction of Environmental Sustainability by Design initiatives with the organization, fostering a culture of environmental sustainability and innovation in pharmaceutical development.

• Cultivate strategic partnerships with academic laboratories and biotechnology partners

• Advance cutting‑edge technologies including automation, high‑throughput experimentation, self‑healing and continuous processing

• Manage substantial resources…