Head of Digital R&D Product Strategy

Company: Sanofi

Location

Morristown, NJ/ Cambridge, MA

About The Job

At Sanofi, we’re committed to providing the next-gen healthcare that patients and customers need. It’s about harnessing data insights and leveraging AI responsibly to search deeper and solve sooner than ever before. Join our Digital R&D team as the Global Head of Digital R&D Product Strategy and help shape the future of innovation at Sanofi. In this strategic leadership role, you’ll drive planning, value articulation, and transformation initiatives that deliver measurable impact across Digital R&D. You’ll foster agile, product-aligned ways of working and a high-performance culture, while facilitating cross-functional decision-making with the Digital R&D Leadership Team. This includes leading strategic portfolio planning, OKR alignment, value measurement, and partner collaboration. You’ll also steward key processes and change management efforts, ensuring effective adoption of enterprise-wide digital practices.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

Main Responsibilities

• Drive strategic planning and decision-making across Digital R&D portfolio.
• Lead articulation of targeted technical ecosystem and communicate strategic plans.
• Scout and advise on build/buy/partner decisions for digital tools and platforms.
• Steward value articulation and ROI measurement for R&D digital investments.
• Coordinate creation and tracking of OKRs and KPIs across Digital R&D.
• Translate enterprise Agile methods and support change management initiatives.
• Enable innovation through hackathons, user engagement, and usability improvements.
• Lead team engagement, communications, and transformation programs.
• Ability to travel up to 30% overall to Sanofi headquarters and major R&D centers globally.

About You

• 5+ years experience in strategy development ideally leading digital solutions in pharmaceutical or vaccines R&D.
• Strong strategic mindset and business acumen with measurable impact delivery.
• Proficiency with AI/ML tools and automation in evidence generation.
• Skilled in engaging with software vendors, startups, and platform providers.
• Demonstrated leadership in matrixed, multicultural, global organizations.
• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s or MBA preferred.

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse 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.

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.

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Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.

Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science - where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what’s never-been-done-before. You’ll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people’s lives? Let’s Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary – together.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.