Job title: Director, Strategic Projects

• Location: Morristown, NJ

 

About the Job

• From the vantage point of North America (NA) Vaccines Business Unit, bring together the functions, capabilities, and offerings from GTMC, Digital and external partners to enable technology and automations clearly linking them to tangible Business Unit benefits and superior customer experience.
• Collaborate and co-create solutions that provide immediate and tangible benefits to various functions of NA Vaccines Commercial business unit.
• Lead and modernize commercial business processes and solutions for efficiency and efficacy.
• Transversally understand the impact of information and process flows to strike a balance between economies-of-scale-seeking One-Sanofi mindset and the uniqueness demanded by NA Vaccines business unit.
• Lead innovation life cycles for speed to insights and business agility.
• The position will report into the Sr. Director of Technology Modernization and will be part of the Business and Technology Modernization organization within Vaccines North America Business Unit.

Join the team protecting half a billion lives every year with next-gen science, mRNA innovation, and AI driven breakthroughs. In Vaccines, you’ll help advance prevention on a global scale - and shape the future of immunization. 

 

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

 Strategic Projects & Planning

• Conduct benchmarking, external research on commercial technologies, digital solutions, best practices used within and across industry with similar business models as health care eco-system evolves.
• Identify, incubate, and pilot innovation projects that can provide tangible benefit on one or more of the four modernization pillars:  Commercial Effectiveness, Customer Experience, Insights Generation and One Sanofi Approach.
• Partner with US commercial teams to identify new digital solution needs, capabilities, and process improvements for commercial effectiveness and positive customer experience.
• Develop, refine, and apply framework to prioritize initiatives based on business value and strategic alignment.
• Co-own a roadmap for projects and technology solutions for the US commercial organization partnering with Digital for pull through.
• Lead annual cycle of strategic planning for commercial technology and data solution needs and requests

 

Communication & Influencing

• Develop dashboards and presentations to stakeholders and senior leaders on the US team’s modernization projects
• Forster partnerships with internal stake holders (Digital, Go to Market Capability, Center of Excellences) by communicating the Commercial team’s business priorities
• Support Change Management across the commercial organization, ensuring successful adoption of new tools, processes, and ways of working.

 

KPI/Metrics Tracking

• Establish metrics and KPIs to measure the impact of innovation initiatives on business performance

 

About You

•  5+ years of work experience at a Pharma, diagnostics, or a digital health company in a commercial or business operations function.
• At least implementation of one digital product in a product management capacity – from concept to measurable business outcomes
• Good understanding of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) and basic database querying and coding knowledge using SQL (Structured Query Language).
• 3+ years of work experience at a top tier management consulting company focusing on health care clients is preferred.
• Currency of knowledge on AI and ability to harness AI assistants for outcomes
• Proven experience of leading transformation initiatives.
• Excellent written and verbal communications to productively engage C-suite for information sharing and facilitate decision making.
• Entrepreneurial and growth mindset exhibiting high resilience to adversaries, persistence for outcomes, and leading by example.
• Excellent networking skills to foster partnerships and drive consensus across diverse stake holders.

 

Why Choose Us

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.  
• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.  
• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.  
• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness program
• Work at the forefront of AI-driven research, smart manufacturing, and groundbreaking mRNA platforms that are redefining the future of immunology.
• Help protect half a billion people every year, contributing to one of the largest global vaccination efforts in healthcare.
• Develop your career with access to mentoring, international mobility programs, and opportunities to grow across four continents. 

Sanofi US Services and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity employers committed to a culturally inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil  union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

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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.

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US and Puerto Rico Residents Only

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity employers committed to a culturally inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

North America Applicants Only

The salary range for this position is:

$161,250.00 - $232,916.66

All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.