MRNA CoE Resource Management Officer

** Job title**:
* mRNA CoE Resource Management Officer*
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* Location:

Waltham
*** About the Job
** The
* mRNA CoE Resource Management Officer
* is the partner of mRNA CoE heads and their teams to monitor and manage demand and capacity in support of the Sanofi Portfolio through appropriate and efficient allocation of workload, resources and related in sourcing need. The incumbent supports the mRNA CoE department heads in developing, justifying and clearly communicating the capacity needs targets based on planned workload and department strategy.

The incumbent also supports decision analysis that will guide in efficient resource management and will work with leadership to develop and manage the operational strategic goals for their department.

Join the engine of Sanofi’s mission — where deep immunoscience meets bold, AI-powered research. In R&D, you’ll drive breakthroughs that could turn the impossible into possible for millions.
** About Sanofi:
** 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.
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* Main responsibilities:

*** Represents Department Heads in all matters of workload and resources (demand, internal capacity, flex resources). This includes developing, presenting, and implementing their resources strategies. Develop and support maintenance of relevant analyses for evaluating activities planning and resource allocation to compare with the plans.
* Ensure optimization of resources per department/platform, per strategic direction and in agreement with senior leadership. Ensure ongoing activities are resourced effectively and efficiently, including alignment of operational and functional needs, to meet functional activities targets and deliverables.
* Review the forecasted internal workload by skill, by site and/or country with relevant SMEs. Manage requests for adjustments and require clear justification for changes within RDPM with the support of the Operational planners’ team. Ensure the consistency of the consolidated workload per site/country/platform/skill.
* Ensure that standard FTE algorithms and standard template optimization are aligned with deliverables per role. Assess algorithm development appropriately when deliverables, processes and process tools change. Coordinate with Operational planners and BSM for updating the algorithm in RDPM. Oversee continued definition and validation of standard functional-based deliverables, related activities and metrics for NV (part of Template team) and transversal consolidation for Non-NV portfolio.
* Contribute and support the optimization of the utilization of the workforce for the department. Assist the departments in providing supporting documentation, analyses or report that would help in managing their workload to facilitate decision making. Anticipate bottlenecks (resources and production slots), support conflict resolution, and develop mitigation plans to address gaps in demand and capacity.
* Coordinate with global and local shared services teams (Finance, P&C, …) on department processes for managing local budgets and headcounts.
* Work closely with functions and platform finance to manage forecasts to support FTE budget exercises. Lead the consolidation and review of the FTE budget and strat plan within the mRNA CoE. Drive the decision on in sourcing allocation process within the function.
* Conduct planning and FTE simulations for function scenarios, due diligence, new targets, external partnerships and ad-hoc requests to support functional assessments and assessments of new vaccine opportunities.
* Work with the mRNA CoE LT and Headcount manager in support of the department to manage headcount targets approved by R&D LT /Finance/P&C. Manage new open position request arbitration within the function and make the link with Resource committee. Provide support for Strategic Workforce planning exercise.
* Make recommendations and manage…