Manager - State Reporting
Sanofi
- Hyderabad, Telangana
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Location: Hyderabad
- % of travel expected: Travel required as per business need, if any
- Job type: Permanent and Full time
- Collaborate across and lead multiple functional teams including SGR, Legal, E&BI, and all Sanofi US Business Units to support execution of operational/submission plan using project management skills to track all deliverables to ensure alignment with deadlines.
- Manage and ensure completion of routine state submissions according to state defined requirements and timelines.
- Assess laws and support development of standards and processes to drive delivery of requirements. Manage the creation\authoring of relevant Business Rules and other guidance/process documents in collaboration with Legal, US Transparency, E&BI and other teams as required.
- Implement training, change management, and process improvement plans to drive stakeholder compliance.
- Create clear, concise communications that are relevant and appropriate for target audiences. Ensure that direction and guidance can be operationalized by recipient team.
- Maintain intranet web page and SharePoint with links to relevant documents, as well as repository/database to store and maintain relevant data and documentation.
- Maintain industry knowledge to anticipate and impacts from new laws. Stay current on evolving trends within the state law implementation process and Sanofi reporting to support alignment with all regulations.
- Support continuous improvement activities to ensure operational excellence for deliverable tracking, compliance, and reporting
- People:
- Maintain effective relationship with the end stakeholders within the allocated GBU and tasks – with an end objective to develop education and communication content as per requirement
- Actively lead and develop SGH operations associates and ensure new technologies are leveraged
- Initiate the contracting process and related documents within defined timelines; and
- Collaborate with global stakeholders for project planning and setting up the timelines and maintaining budget
- Performance:
- Refresh Existing Reports and identifies improvement opportunities in reporting and BI tools and as needed structure / functionality with the latest insights as they become available
- Create dashboards to synthesize and visualize key information and enable business decisions
- Works to develop deal tracking analytics and reporting capabilities
- Collaborates with Digital to enhance data access across various sources, develop tools, technology, and process to constantly improve quality and productivity
- Process:
- Support delivery of projects in terms of resourcing, coordination, quality, timeliness, efficiency, and high technical standards for deliveries made by the medical/ field writing group, including scientific documents and clinical/medical reports
- Contribute to overall quality enhancement by ensuring high scientific standards for the output produced by the medical/ field writing group; and
- Secure adherence to compliance procedures and internal/operational risk controls in accordance with all applicable standards
- Refresh report on frequency/cycle basis (weekly/monthly/quarterly/annually), along with QC checks for each refresh
- Stakeholder: Work closely with global teams and/ external vendors to ensure the end-to-end effective project delivery of the designated publication/medical education deliverables
- Experience:
- 7+ years of experience in pharmaceutical industry. Experience with US government regulations and understands legal, regulatory and compliance risk.
- Soft skills: Strong learning agility; Ability to manage ambiguous environments, and to adapt to changing needs of the business; Good interpersonal and communication skills; strong presentation skills a must; Team player who is curious, dynamic, result oriented and can work collaboratively; Ability to think strategically in an ambiguous environment; Ability to operate effectively in an international matrix environment, with ability to work across time zones; Demonstrated leadership and management in driving innovation and automation leveraging advanced statistical and analytical techniques
- Technical skills:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university.
- At least 7+ years direct experience with pharmaceutical industry.
- Experience with government regulations preferred
- Experience with understanding legal, regulatory or compliance risk.
- MS Excel and SharePoint expert level expertise.
- Ability to forge and maintain cross-functional relationships.
- Ability to work independently to drive problem solving and process improvement
- Ability to collaborate effectively and work across multiple areas, when members of the work team are not direct reports
- Comfortable and capable in front of any group and discuss or present the project
- Ability to think strategically and provide insights on opportunities and impacts for the business
- Ability to produce relevant analytics from large datasets independently, in visually clear formats that are validated and quality checked before submitting to supervisor
- Prioritizes tasks by due date and mission criticality.
- Detail-oriented (demonstrates attention to detail) & organized with updating & saving work instructions and file version control.
- Actively listens & follows direction as explained to meet expectations.
- Possesses confidence to ask questions & assess risk.
- Accepts constructive feedback & integrates feedback on an ongoing basis moving forward.
- Ability to solve complex issues that may involve several stakeholders.
- Ability to think outside-of-the-box (i.e. success and comfort working in the 'grey' vs 'black-&-white' tasks)
- Proactively seeks new tasks & ensures regular touchpoints with task lead (take action), rather than wait for tasks to be assigned
- Demonstrates continuous improvement mindset.
- Automation experience
- Experience with project accountability & management to ensure defined deliverables are achieved
- Influence without authority
- Ability to identify risk and know when to escalate to leadership.
- System enhancement testing
- Education: Advanced degree in areas such as Management/Statistics/Decision Sciences/Engineering/Life Sciences/ Business Analytics or related field (e.g., PhD / MBA / Masters)
- Languages: Excellent knowledge in English and strong communication skills – written and spoken