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Strategy and Operations Lead – Digital Rnd Lab and Plant Operations
| Company | Sanofi |
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| Location | Cambridge, MA, USA |
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| Salary | $148125 – $213958.33 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Strong experience in Strategy or Operations, preferably in digital R&D teams
- Bachelor’s degree required
- Master’s degree in business or digital field is preferred
- Detailed planning, budgeting, and reporting capabilities
- Strong networking, influencing and negotiating skills
- Superior problem-solving skills
- Strong and confident storytelling and communication skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical, business, and finance teams
- Demonstrated ability to work with multiple teams to drive alignment and results
- Continuous improvement mindset – Results oriented, and self-motivated
- Positive team player who is service-oriented and flexible
- Knowledge on agile development and product lifecycle is a plus
- English fluent. French, Spanish, or other languages is a plus
- Pharma and/or Digital healthcare expertise is a plus
- Experience in or good understanding of Pharma R&D reporting analytics, at portfolio, project or functional level (Clinical Operations, CMC, Labs, etc.) is a plus
Responsibilities
- Support the vertical’s strategy, portfolio and products roadmap in collaboration with Head of the vertical and Product Line Owners and Product Owners
- Financial management, collaborating with Finance and Procurement on all topics related to budget elaboration, strategic planning and business case reviews
- Resources optimization, collaborating with Product Line Owners, People & Culture and procurement, to ensuring optimized staffing allocation to achieve product impact and support their roadmap
- Performance monitoring, collaborating with Product Line Owners on all topics related to actuals KPI monitoring and post-implementation ROI reviews of our digital products, and be accountable for the quality of analytical deliveries and KPIs consolidation to global Digital scorecards, and communication to LT
- Risk and dependency management, collaborating with Product Line Owners, to proactively manage the vertical’s product portfolio for successful delivery
- Leverage deep understanding of agile transformation to raise the agile capability of the organization. Coach and mentor in agile practices
- Lead and manage the vertical’s team of scrum masters. This team is a mix of employees and contractors
- Constantly refining the vertical’s operating model through iterative adjustments and constant monitoring of impact
- Facilitating the Vertical’s Guiding Coalition meeting, ensuring the content presented allows for strategic decision-making on the Product Portfolio’s short-, mid- and long-term goals and vision
- Building and steering Vertical’s budget and staffing, driving Strategic Planning
- Setting Vertical users up for success through communication on updates & features, sharing of success stories, monitoring of adoption
- Owning Vertical’s communication (to Sanofi ecosystem, Sanofi Leadership and Corporate Global Business Units and Markets)
- Taking data-driven decisions, e.g. for portfolio management and resource allocation
- Embodying Play to Win culture and behaviors (Stretch, Take Action, Act for patients and customers, Think Sanofi first)
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge on agile development and product lifecycle is a plus
- English fluent. French, Spanish, or other languages is a plus
- Pharma and/or Digital healthcare expertise is a plus
- Experience in or good understanding of Pharma R&D reporting analytics, at portfolio, project or functional level (Clinical Operations, CMC, Labs, etc.) is a plus
