Digital Platform Functional Expert

Job title: Digital Platform Functional Expert

Location: Lyon Carteret

About the job

We are a global biopharmaceutical company focused on human health. Our purpose is to find treatments to fight pain and ease suffering. We combine breakthrough science and advanced technology to develop life‑changing medicines and vaccines.

Digital & Data is at the heart of Sanofi: our ambition is to be the leading digital healthcare platform to develop and deliver medicine faster, enable healthcare professionals to improve treatments, and help patients improve their health.

The Digital Manufacturing & Supply organization has established a dedicated organization to cover MSAT & Leading at the same level as Quality, Manufacturing & Supply Chain. This reflects the growing importance of digitalization of these functions and their establishment as global functions within M&S.

Sanofi Global MSAT (Manufacturing Sciences, Analytics, and Technology) acts as a crucial link between our R&D and manufacturing facilities, playing a vital role in securing the present portfolio and delivering future launches of high‑quality and innovative drugs and vaccines. One key priority is to launch 3 to 5 new products annually across various modalities.

As the Platform Functional Expert, you will play a critical role in driving the implementation and management of Sanofi’s M&S Launches activities, securing our future product launches.

Responsibilities

• Ensure solution design fit to purpose:
  • Ensure harmonization and challenge business requests in the domain for implementation.
  • Participate to design authority from a solution perspective, ensuring sustainability of choice and maximization of out‑of‑the‑box usage.
  • Translate business storyboards into detailed functional use cases and non‑functional requirements; iterate through these in design workshops with business SMEs.
  • Prepare functional gap analysis and present functional design trade‑offs ensuring seamless integration.
  • Create and maintain business process model blueprints covering the logical data model and required augmentations, configurations and customizations.
  • Collaborate in creating integration/interface specifications with Enterprise and System Architects.
  • Contribute to or lead proofs of concept leveraging the 3DExperience platform, documenting and demonstrating use‑case design principles.
  • Develop functional and non‑functional specification documentation including performance, security, protocols, sequences, etc.
  • Document data quality requirements and impact specifications related to data quality assessment, deployment models and legacy migration strategies.
  • Interface with LEDP Technical Team to confirm feasibility of the design.
  • Contribute to the platform roadmap and collaborate with Product Owners on product roadmaps.
  • Act as a key escalation point for support teams, contributing to problem‑solving and issue resolution as part of L3 support.
  • Integrate end‑user considerations, data segregation, IP, security and GxP requirements into solution design.
• Platform deployment and usage:
  • Provide ad‑hoc support to business teams in the deployment of the solution (L3 support).
  • Ensure alignment of the solution with business expectations from a functional and ergonomic perspective.
• OOTB evolution:
  • Follow up on Dassault Systems roadmap evolution.
  • Ensure creation and follow‑up of Product Enhancement Requests with Dassault Systems.

About You

Education/Certifications:

• Minimum B.Sc in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline.
• Advanced degree (e.g., M.Sc) preferred.

Skills:

• 5+ years of experience in PLM functional solution design, preferably in a process industry.
• Deep understanding of business processes, to increase performance outcomes.
• Sound knowledge of product and process design, including model‑based system engineering from design to qualification.
• Knowledge and experience of Dassault System 3DExperience platform implementation in a recent version (post‑2018), with a particular focus on the Delmia side of the platform data model.
• Experience with business process mapping; ability to simplify and maintain a 360° “big picture” view of the solution.
• Understanding of master data principles and technical overlaps among digital platforms, from PLM to ERP, MES, SCM, etc.
• Familiarity with Transformers and Machine Learning and their implementation.
• Strong written and oral communication skills (English; additional languages are an asset).
• Strong interpersonal communication and stakeholder‑management skills.

Why choose us?

• Learn what it takes to make a service with a truly global reach.
• Be part of an organization that values diversity, inclusion, and the richness of different backgrounds and experiences.
• Engage in meaningful work that combines the challenges of pharma, manufacturing, environmental matters and technical fields, offering abundant opportunities for professional growth and impact.
• Contribute to a company that is not only a leader in healthcare but also a pioneer in digital transformation, shaping the future of global health.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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