About us

Sanofi is a global life sciences company committed to improving access to healthcare and supporting the people we serve throughout the continuum of care. From prevention to treatment, Sanofi transforms scientific innovation into healthcare solutions, in human vaccines, rare diseases, multiple sclerosis, oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, diabetes and cardiovascular solutions and consumer healthcare. More than 110,000 people in over 100 countries at Sanofi are dedicated to making a difference on patients’ daily life, wherever they live and enabling them to enjoy a healthier life.

As a company with a global vision of drug development and a highly regarded corporate culture, Sanofi is recognized as one of the best pharmaceutical companies in the world and is pioneering the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with strong commitment to develop advanced data standards to increase reusability & interoperability and thus accelerate impact on global health.

The R&D Data Office serves as a cornerstone to this effort. Our team is responsible for cross-R&D datastrategy, governance, and management. We sit in partnership with Business and Digital, and drive data needs across priority and transformative initiatives across R&D.Team members serve as advisors, leaders, and educators to colleagues and data professionals across the R&D value chain. As an integral team member, you will be responsible for defining how R&D's structured, semi-structured and unstructured data will be stored, consumed, integrated / shared and reported by different end users such as scientists, clinicians, and more. You will also be pivotal in the development of sustainable mechanisms for ensuring data areFAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable).

Position Summary

The R&D Data Capability and Strategy Lead serves as the interface between Business and Digital / Data to leverage the foundational data capabilities in meeting business needs across R&D. This role will be responsible foridentification of key use cases across R&D, capturing business requirements, high level mapping to data solutions (e.g., data strategy, governance / standards, management, infrastructure needs etc), and coordination on day-to-day operations for their specific data capability tied to the business use cases.

Main responsibilities :

Work in collaboration with R&D Data Office leadership, business, and R&D Digital subject matter experts :

Partner with key stakeholders across R&D functions to identify data-related business needs / initiatives, interpret the business processes, propose innovative solutions based on R&D core data capabilities (e.g., MDM, data catalog etc) to support business priorities

Responsible for documenting the business use cases with value realization and success factors

Partner with R&D Digital stakeholders to oversee data-related activities and verify data functionality from ingest through access to enable business processes

Coordinate with project / program management and capability leads on the delivery of initiatives and capabilities; ensure on-schedule / on-time delivery and proactive management of risks / issues

Establish ways of working across all partner functions for specifically assigned capabilities / initiatives

Examine multidimensional datasets and drive business processes updates to be performed and steer the respective change initiatives

Educate and guide R&D teams on standards and information management principles, methodologies, best practices, etc.

Participate in the evaluation of new technologies and innovation projects related to information management

Manage and evolve current data integration standards policies and procedures, and data quality management services

Support root cause analysis on business process gaps and impact assessment on data related topics

Define and maintain business KPIs on data products and services

May directly or in-directly lead junior data roles(e.g., data modelers, data stewards etc) across end-to-end data activities (ingest through access)

Deliverables

Develops business case development, requirement identification, and use case development for business functions

Implements business process definition, process performance, process execution, process management, and continuous improvement opportunities

Drives a culture of operational excellence through a set of fundamental process management practices

Collaborates with the Data Stewards to define the key master data elements and governance workflows for business processes, making data fit for need

About you

Experience : 5+ years of experience in business analysis, data management, information architecture, technology or other related field

Technical skills :

Modelling experience with standard tools

Basic programming skills

Good knowledge of cross-industry data standards

Visio / similar process documentation tools

Familiarity with Snowflake and AWS S3 data management process

Familiarity with Informatica data management tools (CDGC, CDQ, CDI, Marketplace etc.)

Functional skills :

Familiarity with pharma R&D processes and technology

Ability to build business relationships and understand end-to-end data use and needs

Diplomatic and stakeholder management skills across business, technology, and partners

Demonstrated strong attention to detail, quality, time management and customer focus

Excellent written and oral communications skills

Strong networking, influencing and negotiating skills and superior problem-solving skills

Demonstrated willingness to make decisions and to take responsibility for such

Excellent interpersonal skills (team player)

Knowledge on Pharma GxP processes, privacy and regulations like GDPR

People management skills either in matrix or direct line function

Education : Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Business, Engineering, Information Technology

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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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Pursue , discover

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 and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at !