• Location: Porto Salvo, Portugal
• Start date: November 2026
• Duration: 12 months
• Work Model: full time / hybrid 3 days onsite

About the job 

As a Regulatory Affairs Trainee, you will support activities that help ensure Sanofi medicines meet regulatory requirements throughout their lifecycle. Working alongside experienced team members, you will help prepare submissions, maintain regulatory documentation, support packaging approval processes, and keep key information up to date.

This is a great opportunity to gain hands-on experience in Regulatory Affairs, learn how medicines are brought to patients, and build skills that can support your future career in the pharmaceutical industry.

Ready to grow your skills while helping shape the future of healthcare? At Sanofi, you’ll be empowered to learn, ask questions, and bring your ideas to life – all while supported by inspiring mentors and collaborative teams.

About Sanofi 

We’re an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.

Main responsibilities:

• Support the preparation and submission of regulatory variations in line with required deadlines.
• Maintain and update regulatory databases, ensuring information is accurate and complete.
• Assist with the preparation, review, and approval of packaging materials to support product launches and ongoing updates.
• Translate and review regulatory documents, including product information, labeling, and packaging text.
• Track deadlines and help ensure regulatory activities are completed on time.
• Work with colleagues across different teams to support regulatory processes and documentation.
• Contribute ideas and support continuous improvement of team activities and ways of working.

About you  

To excel in this role you will need to have:

• Current student (soon to graduate) or recent graduate status in Pharmaceutical Sciences or a related Health Sciences field.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with different people and teams.
• Proficiency in Portuguese and a good command of English (B2 level or above).
• Good organizational skills and attention to detail.
• A proactive attitude, curiosity to learn, and confidence to take ownership of tasks.
• A collaborative mindset and willingness to support team goals.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Previous exposure to Regulatory Affairs through coursework, projects, or training would be an advantage, but is not required.

Why choose us? 

• Stretch your skills through apprenticeships, internships, graduate programs, and international experiences that grow with you. 
• Learn from inspiring mentors and collaborative teams while contributing to real projects that shape the future of healthcare. 
• Build your future with access to the latest tools, digital innovation, and continuous learning that keep you ahead of the curve. 
• Grow in a purpose-driven company where your voice matters and your work helps improve millions of lives. 
• Thrive in inclusive, flexible workplaces that support your personal and professional well-being. 
• Launch your career with a company that invests in you — and empowers you to reimagine what’s possible.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date should we receive a sufficient number of applications.

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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, ability or gender identity.

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