• Location: Waterford
• Start date: 1st March 2026
• Duration: 6-9 months
• Work Model: Hybrid

About the job 

As a People & Culture HR Intern, you will join the HR team and support people-focused projects that contribute to employee engagement and effective HR processes. You will gain hands-on experience by working on real initiatives, coordinating tasks, and supporting continuous improvement activities. This role offers the opportunity to develop practical HR skills, build confidence, and learn from experienced professionals while contributing to a collaborative and people-centered work environment.

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 HR team with people and engagement-related projects
• Assist with the coordination and delivery of HR activities to agreed timelines
• Help ensure HR and people processes are completed consistently and accurately
• Maintain documentation and support updates to HR-related information
• Contribute to continuous improvement activities within the HR team
• Collaborate with team members to support day-to-day HR operations

About you  

To excel in this role you will need to have:

• Be a 3rd-year student working towards a degree in Human Resource Management, Business, or a related discipline
• The ability to manage tasks and projects within agreed timelines
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Confidence using MS Office applications (such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
• Good organizational skills, with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks
• A collaborative mindset and the ability to work effectively as part of a team

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. 
• Explore more with personalized development plans, short-term gigs, and internal mobility across functions and countries. 
• 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.

#LI-EUR

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.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!