Project Specialist – SharePoint

Job title: Project Specialist – Sharepoint and Website

Hiring Manager: Project Manager, Sanofi Global Hub

Location: Hyderabad

% of travel expected: Travel required as per business need

Job type: Permanent and Full time

About the job

Our Team:

Sanofi Global Hub is an internal Sanofi resource organization based in India and is setup to centralize processes and activities to support Specialty Care, Vaccines, General Medicines, CHC, CMO, and R&D, Data & Digital functions. Global Hub strives to be a strategic and functional partner for tactical deliveries to Medical, HEVA, and Commercial organizations in Sanofi, globally.

Main responsibilities:

Core SharePoint Competencies

Modern Site Architecture: Creating Hub, Communication, and Team sites.

Information Architecture: Designing intuitive navigation, metadata, and content types.

Permission Management: Implementing secure, role-based access control (RBAC) groups.

SharePoint Framework (SPFx): Building custom web parts and extensions.

Design & Customisation Skills

UX/UI Design: Applying corporate branding, custom themes, and JSON column formatting.

Web Languages: Writing custom HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript/TypeScript for advanced layouts.

Canvas Components: Building advanced structures using Microsoft Viva Connections dashboards.

Microsoft 365 Integration

Power Automate: Creating complex approval workflows and lifecycle automation.

Power Apps: Designing custom list forms and tailored business applications.

Microsoft Graph API: Integrating external data streams directly into SharePoint.

Data & Governance

Microsoft Purview: Enforcing data retention schedules and sensitivity labels.

SharePoint Admin Center: Managing storage quotas, external sharing, and term stores.

Migration Tools: Using the SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT) or ShareGate.

People:

Stakeholder Management

Requirements Gathering: Translating vague user requests into technical site blueprints.

Expectation Management: Saying "no" politely when technical constraints limit custom designs.

Executive Presence: Presenting site mockups confidently to senior leadership for approval.

Training & Enablement

Content Simplification: Explaining complex document workflows to non-technical staff.

Documentation Writing: Creating clear, screenshot-heavy user guides for site owners.

Training Delivery: Hosting engaging workshops to drive platform adoption.

Collaboration & Change Management

Cross-Functional Alignment: Uniting IT security, HR, and marketing on governance rules.

Empathy-Driven Design: Interviewing end-users to understand their daily frustration points.

Resistance Handling: Calming users anxious about moving away from legacy systems.

Structured Communication

Visual Communication: Using wireframes to explain navigation choices before building.

Status Reporting: Providing clear project timelines, risks, and milestone updates.

About you

Experience: 3-5 years relevant work experience with solid understanding of principles, standards, and best practices of web content management/Digital Asset Management preferably in a consulting or pharmaceutical or healthcare space

Soft skills: Strong communication skills(written & verbal) , innovative and creative thinking , capable to influence and motivate

Technical skills: Technical knowledge of content management tools (Sharepoint online, Sharepoint 2007/2010, Sharepoint Designer, AEM, wordpress, drupal etc

Education: Bachelor’s or master’s degree in information systems, computer science, communications, web/graphic design, or related field

Languages: Excellent knowledge of English language (spoken and written)

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, disability, or gender identity.

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