Deputy Director End to End Project Controller

Job Title:

Deputy Director End-to-End Project Controller

• Location:
  
  Swiftwater, PA

The Deputy Director End-to-End Project Controller (E2E PC) will report to Swiftwater Project Management Function (PMF), which is under the Swiftwater Vaccines Industrial Affairs (VIA) organization, and support project leaders for the projects assigned to this role. The E2E PC role is accountable to ensure budget and schedule adherence for Investment projects. This is a critical role in the overall management of the projects and coordination of all functions supporting projects.

The E2E PC role is heavily matrixed and critical to maintain project budget and schedule. The E2E PC must interact and foster collaborative relationships with project leaders, work stream controllers, workstream leaders / project team, VIA US Finance, site leadership, global PMF, and the leadership from external partners.

The E2E PC will also be responsible for leading cross-functional initiatives, such as VIA Project & Program Management Handbook training, SHINE management / administration, and resource capacity & demand forecasting.

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.

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 lives.

Lead cross-functional and end-to-end planning and execution for Investment projects:
Tier 1 / Large & Complex projects, Tier 2 projects of medium size and complexity, and the annual Critical & Major project portfolios. Manage and control schedules, budgets, communications, and risks. Ensure delivery of project objectives on time, budget and quality, taking into account risks and working closely with members of the project team.

• Build and manage integrated project plans and identify critical paths and key milestones towards ensuring timely delivery of projects. Ensure that the project plans are ambitious but achievable by ensuring that they are set up with necessary elements and the relevant connecting milestones between functions/work streams and verifying that the linkages are consistent with the project strategies. Identify inter-dependencies among work stream activities and lead the project team on prioritization and risk mitigation.
  
  Document the project’s critical path and mitigation strategies.
• Build and manage resource plans in alignment with project timelines. Work with the cross-functional project team members to ensure that resources are anticipated, planned/budgeted and allocated to meet the demands of the project plan.
• Challenge the key underlying assumptions on work stream budgets, schedules, and resources with function/work stream leaders.
• Collect, enter, and maintain / update all information (budgets, schedules, resources) from work streams in SHINE.
• Coordinate the cross-functional project teams on budgets and schedules to ensure they are up to date by reporting true and faithful status of the project. Ensure timely and consistent planning, forecasting, analysis, and reporting on budgets and timelines to enable business decision making. Consolidate, monitor, challenge, and ensure reforecasts with project team members: budgets, schedules, resources, and risks.
• Provide project teams, PMF management, steering committees, site leadership, and global leadership with consolidated financial and timeline information…