Integration Site PMO

Position

Location: Toulouse site – minimum 4 days per week on site

Reporting line:

• Direct: Global Integration Lead

• Functional: Site Head Toulouse

Cross-functional role serving the Sandoz integration program, with close interface to the Site Leadership Team.

Role Purpose
Ensure that the site integration into Sandoz is executed in a structured, controlled and risk-managed manner, without destabilizing site operations.
The role acts as the guardian of integration discipline, risk management and governance clarity, ensuring a strict separation between integration activities and day-to-day site execution.

Responsibilities

Integration governance & program control

• Structure, run and continuously improve integration governance, forums and workstreams

• Consolidate inputs from global functions (Engineering, Quality, HSE, MSAT, Finance, IT, etc.)

• Track integration milestones, critical dependencies and decision points

• Prepare and present integration materials for governance bodies (Steering Committees, Transition Boards, etc.)

Risk, compliance & escalation

• Identify, assess and document integration-related risks (GMP, HSE, regulatory, financial, reputational)

• Maintain the integration risk register and associated mitigation plans

• Ensure timely and appropriate escalation through the integration governance framework

• Challenge site plans when Sandoz exposure, compliance or delivery risk is identified

Site interface & integration discipline

• Channel integration requests to the site in a structured and prioritized manner

• Prevent uncontrolled, integration-driven disruption to site operations

• Ensure clear separation between integration topics and operational site management

• Facilitate alignment between global expectations and local constraints

Continuity & representation

• Act as deputy to the Global Integration Lead when required (absence, preparation, follow-up, presentations)

• Maintain continuous and fact-based visibility on integration status and execution health

Qualifications

Education & experience

• Engineering degree, industrial management degree or equivalent

• 10+ years of experience in regulated industrial environments (biopharma, pharma, medtech or similarly constrained industries)

• Proven experience in complex PMO roles, post-merger integration or large-scale transformation programs

• Strong exposure to GMP environments is highly preferred

Core competencies

• Strong expertise in managing complex, multi-stakeholder programs

• Excellent risk assessment, structuring and prioritization capabilities

• Ability to operate effectively in matrix and multicultural organizations

• Credible challenge mindset with senior stakeholders, without creating unnecessary friction

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; full professional proficiency in English required

Leadership & mindset

• High level of rigor, neutrality and governance discipline

• Fact-based, decision-oriented approach

• Natural authority without direct hierarchical power

• Ability to operate under pressure in high-exposure and confidential contexts

Why Sandoz?

Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, touched the lives of almost 500 million patients last year and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!

With investments in new development capabilities, state-of-the-art production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help more patients gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.

Our momentum and entrepreneurial spirit is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful, flexible-hybrid careers, where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is encouraged!

The future is ours to shape!

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