Digital Research and Development - Portfolio and Project Analytics Ops Lead

Overview

Job title: Digital Research and Development - Portfolio and Project Analytics Ops Lead

Location: Morristown, NJ

About the job

At Sanofi, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We believe our cutting-edge science and manufacturing, fueled by data and digital technologies, have the potential to transform the practice of medicine, turning the impossible into possible for millions of people. As one of the leading investors in life sciences, manufacturing and research and development, we focus on delivering new and better ways to address unmet medical needs.

Our products empower self-care, prevent and treat diseases, and help people live better.

Digital & Data is at the heart of Sanofi: our ambition is to be the leading digital healthcare platform to develop & deliver medicine faster, enable healthcare professionals to improve treatments, and help patients improve their health. Our scale, strong connections within health ecosystems across leveraging the world, and ability to leverage Sanofi’s capabilities make us the best place to push the boundaries of medicine through technology.

• Executive sponsorship and governance, with newly appointed CDO & leadership team

• Digital & data culture in place with agile ways of working and a strong ecosystem (Sanofi Ventures, BD Partnerships)

• Unique diversity of medical & technical challenges, with mobility opportunities

The R&D Portfolio and Project Analytics team is a vertical within Digital R&D, focused on developing and delivering digital products to allow the R&D organization to manage its business efficiently and reach its strategic goals. Our team equips R&D decision-makers with the right data insight, at the right time, for the right decision.

As the Digital R&D Portfolio and Project Analytics Operations Lead
, you support the vertical’s successful digital product portfolio’s delivery by ensuring that we build a robust strategy and roadmap across the vertical’s products, that we create and quantify value with our portfolio of products, and that we measure and continuously optimize our performance. This is a facilitator role that requires a high level of coordination within the vertical, with the delivery engines, with other verticals as well as with digital R&D operations.

• 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

• Constantly refining the vertical’s operating model through iterative adjustments and constant monitoring of impact

• Support Vertical Head in:

• 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 GBUs and Markets

• Embodying Play to Win culture and behaviors (Stretch, Take Action, Act for patients and customers, Think Sanofi first)

Education & Experience:

• 8+ years of experience in Strategy or Operations, preferably in digital R&D teams

• Bachelors degree required. Master’s degree preferred.

Skills:

• Detailed planning, budgeting, and reporting capabilities and demonstrated ability to link those to strategy and…