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About the Job

Business Process Coordinator will ensure that business processes at R&D Belgium are supported from an operational point of view with particular focus on collaborations with Sanofi’s Corporate Functions and Shared Business Services. Beyond the day-to-day activities (operational), they will be responsible to help identify and to implement cross-functional improvement projects to increase organizational efficiency and effectiveness.  They may be assigned to certain projects and represent Business Process Operations at the site-level or beyond (e.g. Sanofi initiatives in R&D Global Operations). 

Key responsibilities 

Operational: 

Act as the focal contact person at R&D Belgium towards key vendor (e.g. Thermofisher) and other vendors (for lab consumables, supplies & equipment) – internal & external coordination. 

Provide advice and support in case of complaints, issues, delivery delays, invoices, etc. with a focus on the external contacts (operational) 

Maintain a strong relationship with one or more key vendors (as assigned) in particular with the preferred vendor for lab consumables, supplies & equipment (e.g. Thermo Fisher) or LAMM vendor. 

Build up an excellent relationship with key stakeholders within the R&D Departments such as Decentral Requisitioners and Business Users: 

Interact with BPCs (or equivalent) in R&D Global Operations, Workplace experience, Procurement, P2P and other Global Sanofi Functions on an as-needed basis and for specific identified projects 

Act as a local eBUY expert (Purchasing system) and train newcomers as appropriate (hands-on) in particular on specific Sanofi tools (Purchasing, Invoicing, contracting) 

Identify opportunities & best practices across business processes and technology solutions to improve processes and minimize excess workload and non-value adding activities.  

Identify trends in business needs (at the site) to help determine the need for additional automation of the Purchasing process (e.g. catalogs, price lists)  

Apply process excellence and lean principles where applicable 

Act as backup for other BPC roles at site level as appropriate 

 

About You

BSc in business or economic studies or equivalent by experience 

Minimum 2 years work experience in equivalent role 

Experience with purchasing system (e.g. eBUY) as a plus 

Strong ability to train and teach/coach others, good communication & interpersonal skills 

Administrative consciousness and correctness, accuracy 

Work autonomously for the daily operational tasks 

Analytical, process-oriented with a keen interest to drive continuous improvements. A can-do attitude  

Solution oriented 

Well equipped with digital tools 

Fluent in English and Dutch

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