Job title: Manufacturing Operations Team Lead

Location: Waterford, Ireland
Job Type: 23-month Fixed Term Contract
Work Arrangements: On-site
Shift: 24/7 (2 days, 2 nights - 12-hour shifts - followed by 4 days off)

About the job

As a Manufacturing Operations Team Lead, you will play a critical role in ensuring the successful delivery of operations on one of our advanced multi‑format filling lines (MFFL R10) at Sanofi Waterford. This line supports aseptic filling activities within a Grade A isolator environment, operating at the highest standards of sterility, safety, and compliance. You will lead a highly engaged, high‑performing operational team that is fully aligned with site business objectives and committed to excellence.

Ready to get started?

Join a global network that powers how Sanofi delivers — seamlessly, purposefully, and at scale. In Manufacturing & Supply, you'll help reimagine how life-changing treatments reach people everywhere, faster. Our Waterford site is a key part of this network, and your work here will directly contribute to ensuring the safety and quality of the medicines and vaccines we deliver to patients around the world.

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.

Main responsibilities:

Manage the manufacturing areas to ensure that production objectives are met
Ensure production of products are undertaken in compliance with cGMP and Safety standards through regular walk through and review of deviations and GMP documentations
Monitor the level of GMP compliance in their area on an on-going basis
Ensure that all production activities are organised and executed on time, in full and right first time
Involved in the preparation, review and approval of Manufacturing documentation and records
Define team targets / goals and support team in achieving them especially in the areas of safety, productivity and quality
Actively contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, non-commercial activities and positively embrace change
Train/assess competence for Team Member and manage performance on an on-going basis

About you

Technical qualification in Science or Engineering
Demonstrable leadership and people management experience
Experience working in a sterile manufacturing environment
Strong ability to influence, lead, and drive change
Highly proactive, with the ability to understand the broader organisational context
Diploma in Supervisory Management or equivalent (advantageous)

Why choose us?

Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team
Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally
Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact
Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave
Play an instrumental part in creating best practice within our manufacturing facility
Our Waterford site is easily accessible from the M9 and offers excellent facilities including a subsidized restaurant and newly refurbished gym

Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.

Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science - where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what's never-been-done-before. You'll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people's lives? Let's Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary – together.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

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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, ability or gender identity.

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

Manufacturing Operations Team Leader

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