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Professional skill development - Actions
Career management
Ensuring management continuity in key positions
The Group pays particular attention to management continuity in key positions and ensuring the career development potential of employees. Throughout the entire Group, employee reviews (see the "Developing Professional Skills" action) were once again conducted and enabled executive committees to take stock of the organization in even greater depth: to define key positions and short-term job vacancies, as well as to identify potential in-house applicants to fill vacancies. These reviews also provide a perspective on skill development and possible organizational changes in order to have an up-to-date view of the strengths and weaknesses of the entity and develop individual and collective action plans. As an example, in Industrial Affairs, in-house promotions are routinely preferred when key positions become vacant, provided, of course, that the applicant corresponds to the job profile. In 2006, most vacant key positions worldwide were filled internally. This makes it possible to ensure management continuity while maintaining Group values.
Developing professional skills
Developing professional skills and employee performance
In order to meet current and future business challenges, the performance and development management policy initiated in 2005 is based on two specific reviews: one focuses on goals and annual performance, and the other on employee development. In 2006, these employee reviews were adopted by all of the Group's sites and subsidiaries, making it possible to implement adapted action plans in terms of recruitment, filling vacant managerial positions and talent development.
In order to involve employees in managing their own career development, sanofi-aventis launched the "e-CV," making it possible for employees to apply for in-house job openings and to present and highlight their professional background. In 2006, the "e-CV" was introduced in France for certain positions, as well as in the UK and some Latin American countries within Pharmaceutical Operations. Nearly 6,700 people can now benefit from this initiative. Implementation will continue in France and worldwide in 2007.
Employee career development
The Group encourages its employees to develop job skills and offers them a variety of career options.
- Éric Garrigou, French, age 48, joined the Group when he was 18 years old as an assistant chemist. His outstanding potential was quickly noticed and he was able to pursue his engineering studies while working at the company. After he spent ten years with the Animal Health Division, in particular as head of the Analysis Department, the Group offered him the opportunity to hone his skills within its Human Health Research Unit. From 1996 to 2004, he was responsible for international antithrombotic portfolio development. He has been Assistant Vice President of Project Management since 2004.
- Fiona Brownlie, British, age 41, holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree. She began her domestic career in marketing/sales before moving to a corporate position in International Relations in Germany in 1991. In 1996, her career further evolved with a four-year management assignment in Global Marketing in the United States. She returned to Germany in 2000 where she joined Corporate Public Affairs, moving to France in 2003. Engaged in patient advocacy issues since 2005, Fiona was appointed senior director in charge of patient associations in 2006.
- Min Bok Lee, South Korean, age 39, holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration. He joined the Group's Finance Department in 1993. He rapidly made his way to the Data Processing Department, first as SAP project manager and then as head of Data Processing. He then left for England where he made his debut in sales and marketing; in turn he worked as a medical sales representative, a marketing assistant in the Oncology Business Unit and, finally, for Global Marketing Management, Internal Medicine, in the United States. He returned to Korea in 2004 to head the Internal Medicine and Central Nervous System Business Unit.
- Pierre-Jean Tissier, French, age 42, earned a biochemistry degree in France. He began his career with the Group after completing his student internship as a laboratory technician in Morocco. He stayed there for ten years, working first as head of Quality Control and then of Quality Assurance. In 2000, he took over as production manager at the Cyprus and Zenata sites. Back in France in 2002, he went to the Quétigny site, which produces Plavix® and Stilnox®, as Assistant Head of Production. He was transferred to Mexico in 2004 where for the last three years he has been Industrial Site Manager.
- Paul-Alan Dollinger, British and French, age 40, has a degree from the School of Pharmacy in Lyon and received an MBA from ESSEC in 1994. He joined the company in 1993 as Pediatric Vaccine Junior Product Manager with the International Marketing Department. He advanced within these teams and subsequently became Travel and Endemic Product Manager and Adult Vaccine Product Manager. He was named Adult and Travel Vaccines Group Product Manager in 1996. With the goal of becoming country manager, he spent a year in California as a medical sales representative, followed by six months in Swiftwater, Pennsylvania, as Key Account Manager. He became country manager in the Philippines in 2000, and held that position for four years. Since 2004, he has been country manager in Turkey, one of our strategic markets.
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