About the Job

- Company Context

- Sanofi's strategic direction is to standardize processes across sites, embrace digital transformation of its Manufacturing & Supply perimeter, simplify its current solution landscape, and leverage advanced technologies to bring business value.- Over recent years, Sanofi has deployed various Production sites across GBUs (multiple pharmaceutical processes, Weighing & Dispensing & full MES), with a second wave currently in motion. This represents a strategic opportunity for Manufacturing & Supply Transformation to:

- Design standardized end-to-end processes to generate business value and deliver best-in-class solutions to industrial sites, with high focus on electronic batch record management & review by exception process

- Deliver innovative "state of the art" tools enabling performance for manufacturing processes

- Allow new generation of deployment - more Agile & business centric

- Maintain robust and highly available solutions to operate industrial processes efficiently

- Role Overview :

- The MES DevOps Manager is responsible for leading the delivery, design/ build/ implementation and continuous enhancement of global end-to-end Manufacturing Execution System (MES) solutions at Sanofi. This role focuses on team mgt/leadership, technical mgt/expertise, and delivery excellence to ensure MES configurations meet the needs of Sanofi's manufacturing operations while adhering to quality, regulatory, and cybersecurity requirements. The manager will manage a team (functionally, technically and administratively) of MES DevOps Engineers and MBR developers, take the ownership/ leadership of technical delivery of the team to answer to the requirements of manufacturing sites and align with the expectations of the product owner (Werum Pas-X, Opstrakker) and capability manager.

Main MES Systems :

- Systems & Processes in Scope

- Werum PAS-X Product (Korber)

- Opstrakker (elogbook/eforms)

- Business Processes Covered :

- Master data management (items, user rights, equipment, locations, work orders)

- Master batch record design & approval (including workflows)

- Master batch record review & approval (by Exception)

- Templates for elogbook (Opstrakker)

- Production execution

- Weighing & Dispensing

- Communication to equipment or SCADA systems

- Equipment management

- Material flow management

- Traceability / Genealogy

- Labelling

- Reporting

- Interface with ERP, quality, logistics & shopfloor systems (LIMS, Documentation, Deviation management, Serialization, eOEE)

Main Responsibilities :

- Team Leadership and Management :

- Lead and manage a team of MES DevOps Engineers and MBR developers

- Facilitate onboarding and integration of team members as they join the organization

- Drive knowledge building and skill development within the team. Foster a culture of continuous learning and best practice sharing among team members

- Ensure team members are prepared and able to travel to Sanofi industrial sites globally (Europe, NA, Asia) where MES is in use. And ensure team members are developing a closed partnerships with sites users & business system owners to guarantee a full understanding of business requirements, stakes, challenges, constraints & ultimately build effective solutions

- Managing the priorities of the team, Facilitating resource allocation and management for various MES projects across Digital Manufacturing & Supply

- Taking the ownership/ leadership of technical delivery of the team, ensuring knowledge transfer, and contributing to operational excellence to answer to the requirements of manufacturing sites and align with the expectations of the product owner (Werum Pas-X, Opstrakker) and capability manager.

- Technical Expertise and Team Development :

- Assess and enhance the technical capabilities of the team

- Identify skill gaps and implement targeted training and development programs

- Establish mentoring relationships to accelerate team members' growth and expertise

- Create a collaborative environment that encourages innovation and problem-solving

- Ensure the team stays current with evolving MES technologies and industry best practices

- Develop leadership & accountability at each individual level

- Technical Configuration and Solution Design :

- Oversee the design and build of MES configurations, ensuring alignment with standard market solutions and Sanofi best practices

- Coordinate / align with expectations of Product Owner (Werum Pas-X, Opstrakker) to support configuration, implementation, and deployment projects

- Guide the team in developing MBRs, Process Instructions, blocks, and templates according to functional specifications

- Establish configuration strategies that leverage market solutions and align with industry best practices and Ensure configurations align with the Core model and operational excellence standards

- Delivery and Quality of Services :

- Drive timely and high-quality delivery of configuration projec

📌 Mes DevOps Manager - Werum Pasx & Opstrakker (Hyderabad)
🏢 Sanofi
📍 Hyderabad