Project Schedule Lead IFF (all genders)

As IFF Project Schedule Lead within our Manufacturing & Supply InsuLINK program, you'll own the full project schedule for one of Sanofi's most ambitious capital investments - a €2Bn state-of-the-art insulin manufacturing facility in Frankfurt, Germany. You'll set the scheduling strategy, drive Progress monitoring, and keep a large, complex multi-year program on track from engineering through to commissioning and validation. This role requires routine on-site presence in Frankfurt during construction and CQV phases. Ready to get started?

Main responsibilities:

Build and own the master project schedule in Primavera P6 - defining objectives, setting margin strategy, integrating sub-project schedules, and structuring the project using functional breakdown and internal best practices

Develop detailed scheduling in close collaboration with project teams, including activity sequencing, resource estimating, and duration estimating, to keep stakeholders informed on short, medium (3-week look-ahead), and long-term actions

Drive schedule control throughout engineering, execution, and validation phases by measuring physical and hourly progress, tracking milestones, and monitoring schedule performance indices (SPI)

Identify and manage deviations from baseline proactively - analyzing schedule impacts, alerting the project manager, proposing corrective actions, and following through on resolution

Ensure compliance with project change management procedures, supporting the project manager in scope changes and integrating associated impacts into the schedule

Produce regular schedule reports - including dashboards, progress curves, and performance indices (PO tracking, deliveries, SPI) - on a weekly and monthly basis for project and leadership audiences

Lead schedule workshops and update meetings, using cloud-based collaboration platforms (including Loadspring) to align Engineering, Construction, CQV, and Procurement teams on a common, up-to-date schedule

About you

Education/Experience: MSc/Diplome in Engineering or equivalent technical qualification with familiarity in pharma, biotech, or chemical industry environments; extensive background in project scheduling and control on large, complex capital projects of €1Bn+ scale preferred

Soft and technical skills: Advanced Primavera P6 expertise (schedule creation, baseline management, critical path analysis, resource loading); strong command of earned value management (SPI), progress measurement, variance analysis, and recovery planning; experience with cloud collaboration platforms such as Loadspring is a strong plus; Strategic thinker with the ability to translate complex schedule data into clear narratives; proactive risk manager who identifies deviations early and drives corrective action; skilled at influencing and gaining buy-in across diverse stakeholder groups (A/E, CM, Sanofi teams) without direct authority; highly collaborative, detail-oriented, and resilient in dynamic project environments

Languages: fluency in english required; German is advantageous; additional languages welcome