Digital Expert - R&D Lab & Plant Operations

About the opportunity

Join Sanofi Digital R&D as a Digital Expert Lab & Plant Operations. You will directly contribute to the acceleration of R&D projects by bringing your expertise in laboratory system management, business workflow analysis, and laboratory instrument integration. The role is based in Ghent, you will be part of a global team and collaborate with the other Sanofi R&D sites.

About Sanofi

Our purpose at Sanofi is to work passionately every day to understand and solve healthcare needs of people across the world. Our ambition is by 2025, to be a top 3 innovative, global and diversified human healthcare company. One that embraces transformative technologies and is focused on its area of excellence, which means we’re not there to try to solve everybody’s problems. We want to focus on those areas where we know we are making a difference.

The values we live by are teamwork, courage, respect, and integrity.

About Ablynx

Ablynx is a biopharmaceutical entity dedicated to creating and refining therapeutics for a broad range of diseases based on its NANOBODY® technology. As part of Sanofi’s large molecule research, the teams in Ghent extensively collaborate with the other global Sanofi teams.

About growing with us

In this role you will

• Enable business to efficiently operate the laboratory and production equipment taking into account alignment with regulatory frameworks (GxP), technical and security standards.
• Collaborate with the different departments on the full lifecycle of new (digital) laboratory solutions.
• Implement the lab equipment integration and automation processes to securely register FAIR data in core solutions leveraging new cloud-based technologies, agile methodology and partnering with implementation teams (PODs).
• Operate & coordinate activities within a global model with standard services (servicedesk, application management, infrastructure management), with the scientists, the manufacturing team and respective laboratory equipment vendors to keep the digital laboratory and production environment up-to-date and available.
• Have a key responsibility to evaluate lab integration requests for new innovative lab technologies based on a cost-benefit analysis, technical feasibility, and will develop architecture and technical recommendations based on R&D demand/opportunities.
• Be an active contributor to projects within Digital & Digital R&D with regards to structured and automated acquisition of data generated in the labs.

About you

Qualifications/Education & work experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computing, computer science or a technical and/or scientific discipline.
• 5 to 10 years direct work experience in lab operations, either in R&D or manufacturing environment.
• Working knowledge of current technologies & methods related to automation.
• Strong technical background.
• Experience working in a GxP regulated environment (21 CFR part 11 / GAMP 5).

Competencies

• Analytical approach to problem-solving and solution-building.
• Quality minded.
• Ownership mentality on individual and project responsibilities.
• Driven by continuous improvement & innovation.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Fluent in English (written and spoken), Dutch as first or second language is a plus.

Inspire your Journey, what Sanofi can offer you:

• An international work environment, in which you can develop your talent and realize ideas and innovations within a competent team.
• An individual and well-structured introduction and training when you onboard.
• You can create your own career path within Sanofi. Your professional and personal development will be supported purposefully.
• As a globally successful and constantly growing company, Sanofi provides international career paths as well.

This is our Sanofi, Discover yours.

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