Job detail for Laboratory Manager Microbiology

Job Title: Microbiology Laboratory Manager

• Location: Val de Reuil

About the role

As the Microbiology Laboratory Manager at our Val de Reuil site, you will oversee a team of approximately 55 to 60 people across three departments: Products, Environmental Monitoring, and Utilities. Ready to get started?

Join the team that protects half a billion lives every year through next-generation science and vaccine innovation. We are an innovative global healthcare company that helps the world stay ahead of infectious diseases. Our talented teams explore new technologies in different countries to protect people and promote the health of populations. Every day, we pursue the miracles of science, always in search of progress, to make a real difference in improving the lives of millions of patients around the world.

About Sanofi

Sanofi is a company that innovates in R&D and leverages AI at scale to improve people's lives and create long-term growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and our innovative pipeline – allows us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people worldwide. Together, we pursue the miracles of science to improve people's lives.

**Key **

• Oversee the daily operations of the Microbiology laboratory to ensure compliance with schedules and commitments across its three departments: Products, Environmental Monitoring, and Utilities.

• Maintain the laboratory in compliance with GxP and defined quality control processes by conducting regular walkthroughs to identify gaps, correct them, and implement any improvement opportunities.

• Ensure the use of validated methods within your scope and execute validation or transfer protocols as a receiving unit.

• Manage and train laboratory staff, ensuring compliance with best practices and safety guidelines, while keeping the team's qualification matrix up to date.

• Ensure the proper execution of tests on received samples, conclude on the compliance of results and analysis records, in order to support batch release on behalf of the Quality Control Manager.

What we offer

Fixed remuneration over 12 months, supplemented by individual variable remuneration, as well as profit-sharing and incentive schemes based on the results of the Sanofi Group.

Because taking care of our employees is also our mission:

• 31 days of paid leave + RTT days depending on your status
• Remote work up to 2 days per week
• Quality health insurance
• Public transport coverage up to 80%
• Maternity leave (18 weeks) and partner leave (14 weeks)
• Savings plans and retirement plans with employer matching
• CSE benefits
• Internal and international mobility opportunities
• Customizable training offer to support you throughout your career

And many other benefits to discover here.

About you

• Experience: Significant experience in Quality Control within the pharmaceutical industry, including proven experience in team management.

• Technical and soft skills:

• Knowledge of GMP/cGMP/GLP and regulatory requirements in the pharmaceutical sector

• Ability to analyze complex data and laboratory results to make reasoned decisions and identify areas for improvement

• Attention to detail ensuring the accuracy of tests, reports, and regulatory compliance

• Ability to identify problems and implement effective solutions

• Strong leadership: ability to unite, provide direction, and set clear objectives

• Ability to challenge the status quo and step out of your comfort zone

• Proactivity and ability to propose solutions

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills

• Ability to prioritize, decide, and focus on results, solutions, and customers

• Education: Master's degree, Engineering degree, or equivalent, with a specialization in Microbiology.

• Languages: Fluent English (read, written, spoken).

Why choose us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life within a supportive and forward-looking team, contributing to protecting half a billion people each year through vaccination.

• Play a decisive role in implementing best practices within your Quality Operational Unit and your reference sector.

• Shape the future of drug and vaccine manufacturing and distribution through cutting-edge technologies to ensure smooth launches and a resilient supply chain.

• Evolve in an environment where you can grow, thrive, and have a real impact every day, working with digital tools, data, and artificial intelligence.

• Discover countless possibilities to develop your talents and advance your career, whether through a promotion or a mission in another organization, in France or internationally.

Always Progress. Discover the Extraordinary.

Join Sanofi and enter a new era of science – where your journey can be as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you so that you can go further, accelerate your thinking, and accomplish what has never been done before. You will help push boundaries, challenge conventions, and design smarter solutions for the communities we serve. Ready to pursue the miracles of science and improve people's lives? Let's pursue progress and discover the extraordinary – together.

At Sanofi, we believe in equal opportunity, without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or any other criteria protected by law.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our actions in favor of diversity, equity, and inclusion at sanofi.com .

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!

The salary range for this position is: €54.400,00 - €72.533

Final compensation will be determined based on demonstrated experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs.