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Stephane Legault

Newtonville,MA

Summary

EFFECTIVE business and team leader with broad business experience in Procurement, Manufacturing and Supply, R&D and Digital. Demonstrated success building relationships with stakeholders across various functions and management levels. Strong analytical, technical and communication skills that have enabled me to develop and implement effective and diverse communication strategies to foster alignment across broad stakeholder communities. Unique perspectives due to very diverse background and experience across different countries and functions and role expectations. Demonstrated ability to adapt, build successful organizations in difficult environments, implement organizations and programs of varying complexity and build strong stakeholder relationships

Overview

28
28
years of professional experience

Work History

Procurement Global Lead Buyer, Biologics Raw Mat.

Sanofi Pasteur
Boston, MA
06.2022 - Current
  • Negotiated contracts with vendors to secure the most favorable terms and pricing.
  • Responsible for Biologics Raw Material category, comprising of a spend of over $150M spend and supporting $25B in revenues within the Specialty Care and Vaccines GBU
  • Lead a group of global Procurement experts supporting Specialty Care and Vaccines sites and responsible for the management of global strategic vendors with an overall spend of over $300M of spend
  • Directly responsible for two strategic partners - Strategic management of supplier including align on vendor strategy and joint priorities. Led strategic negotiations and new sourcing opportunities leading to significant benefits for Sanofi. Monitored supplier performance and management of issues. Lead contract negotiations working with legal colleabues.
  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure strategic alignment and understand business needs
  • Analyzed market trends and competitive intelligence to plan optimal category strategy and identify potential cost savings opportunities

Manufacturing Process Core Models Lead

Sanofi
Paris, France
01.2019 - Current
  • Design and implement a new organization accountable for the definition and alignment of business processes for Manufacturing and Supply
  • Global Business Process Owner (BPO) for Plan to Manufacture and leading/managing a team of domain BPOs responsible for implementing best practices to communicate core models definition, measure alignment and manage initiatives to improve/align/simplify processes working with local/site and global experts to ensure alignment at sites
  • SAP program and Business System Owner ensuring adherence and resourcing for the SAP implementations across Sanofi industrial sites, alignment to core models and coordination with digital teams

Biologics Sourcing Leader

Sanofi
Boston, MA
11.2015 - 08.2019
  • Developed, implemented and managed the Sanofi Biologics sourcing process, providing complex, multi-faceted analysis on complex sourcing decisions, supporting key in-line and pipeline products that contribute very large revenues to Sanofi, while managing the associated risks, investments and other decision drivers
  • Directly involved in business and strategic planning, risk management, organizational structure design and business development
  • Coordinated and fostered alignment across multiple functions across manufacturing & supply, R&D and commercial including stakeholders in CMC, MSAT, Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, Finance and Strategy

Resource Algorithm Lead

Pfizer
Collegeville, PA
01.2013 - 01.2015
  • Member of R&D Business Operations team supporting implementation of an overarching project management initiatives to plan all Pfizer R&D resources, allowing global and immediate operational and strategic plans actuals and simulation
  • Model R&D business processes and resources leveraging complex algorithms used to generate the expected R&D resource/costs

Senior Manager, Sourcing Analysis and Capacity Planning

Pfizer/Zoetis
01.2010 - 01.2013
  • Provided leadership and direction in analysis and recommendation of in-line sourcing projects
  • Managed Global Sourcing activities for Animal Health business API and drug product decisions
  • Subject matter expert involved in high visibility global strategic projects including separation and setup of the Animal Health business unit into its own company (Zoetis)

Director, Strategic Projects

Wyeth
Collegeville, PA
01.2007 - 01.2010
  • Led all or components of strategic projects for the manufacturing organization
  • Chief of staff role for the President if Manufacturing - Supported upper management in high visibility operational activities including organization, planning and follow-up of weekly Leadership Team meetings for President of Manufacturing and publication of manufacturing organization section of President’s report along with other strategic requests
  • Closely involved in the Wyeth integration into Pfizer for the manufacturing organization, coordinating document collection, review and vetting, weekly alignment meetings with Pfizer leaders and communication of status and plans to Wyeth upper management

Manager, Applications Development

Wyeth in Montreal
Montreal, QC
01.2003 - 01.2007
  • Managed Business Technology team of 8 employees who designed, developed and supported business applications for Montreal Plant and R&D groups.

Project Leader, Applications and Development

Wyeth
Montreal, QC
01.1999 - 01.2003
  • Managed, designed and implemented business solutions for Wyeth Montreal Plant and R&D groups
  • Managed multiple concurrent complex application and data warehouse development projects for site and R&D user community.

Physics and Electronics teacher

Marianopolis College
Montreal, QC
01.1998 - 01.1999
  • Physics and Electronics teacher at top-tier private college in Montreal.

Led and participated in all aspects of this IS service Startup Company

InJava Inc.
Montreal, QC
01.1996 - 01.1999
  • Led and participated in all aspects of this IS service Startup Company.

Education

M.B.A. - Strategy

McGill University
01.2002

Ph.D. - Physics

McGill University
01.1999

B.Sc. - Physics

University of Ottawa
01.1992

Skills

  • Strategic Decision Management
  • Cross Functional Communications
  • Technical Knowledge
  • Strategic Sourcing
  • Global Procurement
  • Supplier and Stakeholder Relationship Management
  • Supply Chain Optimization
  • Global community building and management
  • Software Development
  • Process Core Models/Enterprise System Management
  • Program Management

Appendix

Business Continuity Summit for the Pharmaceutical Industry, PhRMA, Collegeville, PA, 2007, Managing growth while delivering financial transparency, The Access Group, Montreal, Quebec, 2005, L’intelligence d’affaire chez Wyeth (Business Intelligence at Wyeth), Fédération Informatique du Québec (FIQ), Montreal, Quebec, 2003, Les systèmes d’aide à la décision (Decision Support Systems), SQLiaison, Montreal, Quebec, 2002, 6th International Conference on Quasicrystals, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 1997, New Horizons in Quasicrystals: 1st International Conference, Ames, Iowa, U.S.A, 1996, Doctoral Thesis: Heat Transport in Quasicrystals, S. Legault, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1999, Thermal Conductivity of a Single-grain Quasicrystal of Al70Pd20Mn10, S. Legault, B. Ellman, J. Strom-Olsen, L. Taillefer and S. Kycia, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Quasicrystals, Avignon, France, 1995, Transport properties of Quasicrystals, S. Legault, B. Ellman, J. Strom-Olsen, L. Taillefer, S. Kycia, T. Lograsso, American Physical Society annual meeting, St-Louis, Missouri, U.S.A, 1996, Propriétés de transport des quasicrystaux, S. Legault, B. Ellman, J. Strom-Olsen, L. Taillefer, S. Kycia, T. Lograsso, 64e congrès de l’ACFAS, Montreal, Quebec, 1996, Heat Transport in Quasicrystals, S. Legault, B. Ellman, J. Strom-Olsen, L. Taillefer, S. Kycia, T. Lograsso and D. Delaney, Proceedings of the New Horizons in Quasicrystals: Research and Applications, Ames, Iowa, 1996, Lattice Differences in AlCuFe and AlPdMn Single Crystals Observed via Heat transport, S. Legault, B. Ellman, J. Strom-Olsen, L. Taillefer, T. Lograsso and D. Delaney, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Quasicrystals, Tokyo, Japan, 1997, Measurement Of The Thermoelectric Properties Of Quasicrystalline AlPdRe and AlCuFe Alloys, Michael L. Wilson , Stephane Legault, R. M. Stroud and Terry M. Tritt, Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings Volume 478: Thermoelectric Materials, New Directions and Approaches, 1997, Thermoelectric Properties of the AlPdMn Quasicrystalline System, A.L. Pope, T.M. Tritt, M. Chernikov, M. Feuerbacher, S. Legault, R. Gagnon, J. Strom-Olsen, Submitted to the 1998 Fall MRS Meeting, Symposium Z, 1998, Quasicrystals and Quasicrystal Approximants as New Thermoelectric Materials, Terry M. Tritt , Michael Wilson, A. Johnson, S. Legault and R. Stroud, Proceedings of the XVI International Conference on Thermoelectrics, Dresden, Germany, 1997, Potential of Quasicrystals and Quasicrystalline Approximates for Utilization in Small Scale Thermoelectric Refrigeration and Power Generation Applications, T.M. Tritt, A.L. Pope, M. J. Marone, M. Chernikov, M. Feuerbacher, S. Legault, R. Gagnon, J. Strom-Olsen, Submitted to the 1998 Fall MRS Meeting, Symposium LL:Quasicrystals, 1998

Languages

English
Professional
French
Professional

Timeline

Procurement Global Lead Buyer, Biologics Raw Mat.

Sanofi Pasteur
06.2022 - Current

Manufacturing Process Core Models Lead

Sanofi
01.2019 - Current

Biologics Sourcing Leader

Sanofi
11.2015 - 08.2019

Resource Algorithm Lead

Pfizer
01.2013 - 01.2015

Senior Manager, Sourcing Analysis and Capacity Planning

Pfizer/Zoetis
01.2010 - 01.2013

Director, Strategic Projects

Wyeth
01.2007 - 01.2010

Manager, Applications Development

Wyeth in Montreal
01.2003 - 01.2007

Project Leader, Applications and Development

Wyeth
01.1999 - 01.2003

Physics and Electronics teacher

Marianopolis College
01.1998 - 01.1999

Led and participated in all aspects of this IS service Startup Company

InJava Inc.
01.1996 - 01.1999

M.B.A. - Strategy

McGill University

Ph.D. - Physics

McGill University

B.Sc. - Physics

University of Ottawa
Stephane Legault