Jennifer Coakley

Deputy Director Validation

Sanofi

Jennifer Coakley is a passionate technical leader who has been instrumental in driving the development and execution of risk-based qualification and process validation strategies for over 17 years. With a B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Chemistry, she is highly experienced in process development and scale up, technology transfer and qualification/validation with strong project management and leadership capabilities.

Since joining Sanofi in 2015, she has worked in various roles, supporting a high throughput, multi-product bulk vaccine manufacturing facility from basic design through C&Q, engineering and validation. She has successfully led cleaning and process validation teams through timely delivery of effective and robust development and validation of fully automated, electronic batch record driven, Digital Manufacturing 4.0 processes, utilizing artificial intelligence tools to improve the efficiency of electronic documentation generation. She has recently transitioned to a new role in Sanofi Global Regulatory Affairs.