Continuous Improvement Specialist

Job title: Continuous Improvement Specialist

• Location: Hyderabad
• % Remote working and % of travel expected: Hybrid working arrangement as per policy
• Job type: Permanent Full time

About the job

Our Team:

This position is part of sanofi Business Operations, within Process Excellence & Innovation organization and reporting to the Head of Continuous Improvement.

Process Excellence & Innovation drives continuous improvement and process excellence, ensuring existing service towers adopt a standard framework, methodologies and tools to deliver upon end-to-end process excellence ambition.

The role will provide Continuous Improvement support to help standardize and transform our end-to-end process. The role is focused on complex initiatives, that can span transversally across end-to-end process areas and regions, in an environment with a high degree of interdependancy.

Main responsibilities:

• Provide Continuous Improvement (CI) support to Business Operations department.
  • Contribute to the CI framework.
  • Support tools utilization for various CI initiatives or programmes.
  • Contribute to some CI initiatives under the supervision of a CI Lead peer.
• Disseminate CI culture across Business Operations department
  • Execute CI training programs
• Contribute to CI governance with various stakeholders
  • Provide the right factual data to Process Owners so they can take the best decisions.

About you

• Experience:
  • 1-3 years experience in GBS / BPO Shared Services industry or consulting industry.
  • Certification in CI methodology (Ideally Green belt, minimum Yellow Belt).
  • Previous experience in business process in scope (like Finance or HR or Procurement or Manufacturing & Supply or R&D etc.)
  • Previous contribution to CI programs with tangible outcomes.

• Soft skills:
  • Excellent written and oral communication & inter-personal skills, ability to develop high-quality documents
  • Entrepreneurial mindset, and ability to work independently and take initiative under pressure.
  • Strong collaboration mindset with ability to work with a group of people with different functional expertise.
  • Efficient analytical skills, attention to details.

• Technical skills: Knowledge/certification on Continuous Improvement methodology (ideally Lean Green Belt)

• Education: Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Business Administration or Science

• Languages: Fluent in English is mandatory. Other language is a plus.

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!