Deputy Director End to End Project Controller

About the role

The Deputy Director End‑to‑End Project Controller (E2E PC) reports to the Swiftwater Project Management Function (PMF) within the Swiftwater Vaccines Industrial Affairs (VIA) organization. The role supports project leaders on assigned investment projects, ensuring budget and schedule adherence. It is heavily matrixed, requiring collaboration with project leaders, work‑stream controllers, VIA US Finance, site leadership, global PMF, and external partners. The E2E PC also leads cross‑functional initiatives such as VIA Project & Program Management Handbook training, SHINE administration, and resource capacity & demand forecasting.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross‑functional, end‑to‑end planning and execution for Tier 1 (large & complex), Tier 2 (medium) and annual Critical & Major investment project portfolios.
• Manage and control project schedules, budgets, communications, and risks to ensure delivery on time, within budget, and to quality standards.
• Build and maintain integrated project plans, identify critical paths, key milestones, and ensure ambitious yet achievable plans with consistent cross‑functional linkages.
• Identify inter‑dependencies among work‑stream activities, prioritize work, and mitigate risks.
• Develop and align resource plans with project timelines; ensure resources are anticipated, budgeted, and allocated appropriately.
• Challenge underlying assumptions on work‑stream budgets, schedules, and resources with functional leaders.
• Collect, enter, and maintain budget, schedule, and resource data from work‑streams in SHINE.
• Coordinate cross‑functional teams to provide accurate, up‑to‑date status reporting on budgets and schedules.
• Provide timely planning, forecasting, analysis, and reporting to enable business decision‑making.
• Consolidate, monitor, and re‑forecast budgets, schedules, resources, and risks with project team members.
• Supply PMF management, steering committees, site leadership, and global leadership with consolidated financial and timeline information (forecasts and actuals).
• Define project Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and report progress to stakeholders.
• Perform financial and business analyses, explain variances, and support scope‑change decisions with financial and regulatory impact assessments.
• Identify and recommend improvement opportunities (e.g., timeline acceleration) while balancing cost and quality.
• Communicate lessons learned across the corporate project‑management function.
• Organize and manage project steering‑committee meetings and other stakeholder meetings.
• Support PMF in applying the VIA Project & Program Management Handbook and Sanofi project‑management standards.
• Lead initiatives to enhance project‑management practice, including handbook training, SHINE administration, and best‑practice development for resource forecasting, scheduling, and ways‑of‑working.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Science, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a similar project‑controller or project‑management role.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with project‑management processes, schedules, resource estimation, and CAPEX/OPEX budgeting.
• Ability to develop business cases and change orders, and to consolidate work‑stream financial information.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Expertise with Planisware (SHINE) and SAP.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health and wellbeing programs, including high‑quality healthcare, prevention, and wellness initiatives.
• At least 14 weeks of gender‑neutral parental leave.
• Opportunities for career growth through promotions, lateral moves, and international assignments.
• Rewards package that recognizes individual contributions.
• Access to digital, data, and AI‑driven innovation tools.
• Inclusive, culturally diverse workplace committed to equal opportunity.