Global Head of Digital Laboratory and Plant Operations

Job Title: Global Head of Digital Laboratory and Plant Operations

Location: Cambridge, MA

About the Job

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? Join Sanofi in one of our corporate functions and you can play a vital part in the performance of our entire business while helping to make an impact on millions around the world.

To ensure the success of Sanofi’s Research and Development strategy, Digital Laboratory and Plant Operations drives the strategy, delivery, and management of the Digital ecosystem (incl. applications, data foundation, analytics, AI/ML) supporting all aspects of laboratory and pilot plan operations throughout R&D.

• The successful can will enable business growth and transformation through best-in-class digital innovation and operational excellence that enable research, preclinical and CMC laboratory and plant staff to efficiently discover and develop medicines and vaccines.

• Working as a member of the Research, Research Platforms, and CMC leadership teams, they will be a change agent and thought leader on Digital opportunities and priorities.  They will also interface to Sanofi’s Translational Medicine Unit and comparable functions in the Vaccines business to ensure enterprise reach of digital solutions across modalities.  

• They will maintain Sanofi’s license-to-operate through scaled, high-quality delivery of digital capabilities globally.

• They will work across the Sanofi enterprise with business teams, other Digital R&D portfolio leaders (e.g. Digital Clinical Development), platform teams (e.g. R&D Data Science), and interface to the global Digital core functions (e.g. Tech, Data/AI, Architecture, etc), as needed.  

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

Relentlessly focus on business objectives and customer needs, while aligned with the overall global Sanofi digital strategy:

• Translate Research, Research Platforms, and CMC development functional strategies and operational improvement plans into clear, coherent, and value-based digital strategy and roadmap across technologies.  

• Strategically plan and prioritize product roadmaps for all wet lab and CMC lab and pilot plan digital products (applications, data, models) over a rolling 5-year timeframe, anchoring to a target ecosystem agreed with business leaders.  

• Directly manage Digital Wet Lab and CMC Guiding Coalitions as the main decision bodies for investments including internal resource and external spend.  Apply strategic aims and funding allocation targets set by Digital Tower (H. R&D, Chief Digital Officer) to prioritize and gate investments.  Monitor progress through mid-gate “health checks” to sustain value delivery and capture according to endorsed value cases.  Manage “pivots,” as needed as the software market matures and technical/operational feasibility are proven through digital product execution and business adoption.

• Be accountable for data quality in Service Now (Digital’s selected portfolio management toolset) to reflect plans and progress for governed product investments.

• Operationally plan delivery through in-house, outsourced, and co-developed models and through product-aligned, Agile ways of working.

• Deliver within allocated budgets and resources and aligned timeframes associated with roadmap delivery.

• In collaboration with legal, quality, and compliance teams, monitor the global regulatory and legal environment to anticipate changes to laws applying to acquisition, storage, and use of patient data as well as responsible application of AI/ML to evidence generation and reporting processses.   Balance and mitigate risks to maintain steady progression of innovative methodologies.

• Monitor the commercial software market for innovations, bringing an advisory point of view to build/buy/partner decisions, including engaging in Digital Strategic Partnering initiatives, as needed.

• Be accountable for oversight and quality delivery by digital vendors (software companies, SaaS platform providers, consultancies) working in the research and CMC space.

• Foster alignment and adherence to the enterprise data architecture standards and recommended principles.

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