Program Manager Medical

: Program Manager - Medical

• Hiring Manager: Team Lead - Medical Program Management
• Location: Hyderabad
• % of travel expected: Travel required as per business need
• Job type: Permanent and Full time

About the job

• Strategic Program Oversight

• Own the

across multiple TAs/projects, not just individual project execution

• Translate Medical Plan strategy into actionable project portfolios and resource plans
• Proactively identify

across the multiple TAs GBU portfolio

• Execution - Coordinate team activities, assign tasks, and monitor Progress against the project plan while facilitating cross-functional collaboration. Ensure quality standards are met and manage stakeholder expectations and communication throughout.
• Present program status, risks, and strategic recommendations to senior stakeholders and leadership
• Monitoring & Controlling - Track project performance using KPIs and metrics while managing changes to scope, schedule, and resources. Resolve issues, conduct regular status meetings, and ensure compliance with all internal and external standards.
• Define and continuously improve governance frameworks before onboarding new team members or projects
• Closure - Review project outcomes against objectives, document lessons learned and finalize deliverables with stakeholder approval. Release resources, close out contracts, and archive all project documentation.

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• Hold

(not just execution) for the TA/program budget - sign-off authority on PO/WBS above a defined threshold

• Lead

with Finance and MPM leadership, identifying variances and corrective actions

• Own the

- not just tracking, but designing the governance model, setting deadlines, and holding TA teams accountable to milestones

• Conduct

and contingency planning for the therapeutic area portfolio

• Approve vendor contracts and amendments within delegated authority; escalate high value/high-risk contracts appropriately

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one or more Associate Project Managers, providing guidance on daily tasks, prioritization, and professional development

• Conduct

and contribute to APM performance reviews

• Onboard new APMs/team members and ensure they are trained on governance processes and systems
• Foster a collaborative team culture and act as an escalation point for team-level issues
• Allocate work across the team based on capacity, priority, and skill match

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• Proactively identify, log, and manage

(not just project-level issues) using a formal risk register

• Develop

for high-impact risks (budget overruns, vendor non-performance, compliance gaps, resourcing shortfalls)

• Escalate critical risks to senior leadership with clear recommendations
• Lead

• Serve as the

for senior Business Partners, TA Medical Leads, and MPM leadership (beyond day-to-day liaison)

• Lead

with stakeholders, presenting portfolio health, budget status, and key decisions needed

• Negotiate priorities and resource trade-offs across competing TA/stakeholder demands
• Manage

• Design and maintain

(beyond individual Smartsheet trackers) consolidating KPIs across all TA projects

• Conduct

on budget burn rate, tactic execution rates, and vendor performance

• Provide

to leadership on resource allocation and process efficiency

• Standardize reporting templates and ensure consistency across the team

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SOPs/governance processes for PO/WBS creation, ABP management, SRC support, and SharePoint governance

• Ensure full compliance with

(Legal, Compliance, Privacy/GDPO) and external regulatory standards across all team deliverables

• Conduct

on team deliverables (study ID cards, SRC documentation, distribution lists, etc.)

• Lead

• Coordinate with

to align on shared processes, best practices, and lessons learned

• Represent the local/hub team in

or working groups related to Support Program Management

• Drive

• Identify opportunities for

(e.g., leveraging Smartsheet, Power BI, or other digital tools) to reduce manual effort

• Lead or contribute to

when new tools, processes, or governance models are introduced

• Stay current on

• Lead

and relationship management beyond day-to-day follow-up

• Negotiate contract terms and support

when new vendors are needed

• Ensure vendor compliance with Sanofi's Code of Conduct, confidentiality, and data privacy requirements

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• Tactics and Priorities tracking - Following the tracking of projects for budget purposes, the hub program manager will work closely with the TA specific Medical and MPM Teams to collaborate with the management of the status tracking of the tactics and priorities (set by the Medical Plan and actualized in the Budget)
• Privacy data - The hub program manager will work closely with the Medical and MPM team on project-related Privacy information and tools, in collaboration with the Global Data Protection Operations Department
• Internal Calendar - The hub program manager will work closely with the TA specific Medical and MPM Teams to implement and manage an omni comprehensive Team Calendar, to track Congresses, Events, SRCs, Internal Meetings and ad hoc
• Share Point site - The hub program manager will work closely with the TA specific Medical and MPM Teams to restructure, reorganize and maintain the Team's Share Point site
• Project Support : coordinating with vendors for data sets, engaging with external stakeholders as needed, communicating with the hubs and global team as per project's need.
• Ad hoc - The hub program manager will perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned
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• CSS SRC - The hub program manager will support the MPM team to manage the SRC review approval process effectively. They will collaborate with the MPM to collect pre-meeting material and documents to ensure a timely SRC review, and to develop post-meeting documents to register actions and decisions (e.g. meeting minutes and study's approval forms). They will also be responsible for scheduling ad hoc meetings to discuss post-SRC follow up actions
• Study ID cards - The hub program manager will support the MPM team to manage the study SRC documents and ID cards: creation, update/upload/archive into appropriate location defined by governance
• Smartsheet tracking - The hub program manager will ensure the Smartsheet trackers are maintained updated, in coordination with cross functional stakeholders
• CDA and Confidentiality Notice Management
• Expert Consultancy Tracking
• Cyber-grant Sponsorship
• Support on One support ticket
• Booklet including Expert Profile creation for Congress
• Distribution List creation and maintenance
• Ad hoc - The hub program manager will perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned

About you

• Experience

: 10 + years of experience in pharma/life-science companies with project management and finance/ budget tracking skills •