Global Head of Digital Clinical Development

Job Title: Global Head of Digital Clinical Development

Location: Bridgewater, NJ

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 Clinical Development drives the strategy, delivery, and management of the Digital ecosystem (incl. applications, data foundation, analytics, AI/ML) supporting all aspects of evidence generation (e.g. RWD), clinical trial planning, conduct, supply, and reporting, and biostatistics (quantitative decision making).

• The successful candidate will enable business growth and transformation through best-in-class digital innovation and operational excellence that enable clinical sites, CROs, trial participants and patient communities, and internal stakeholders to have meaningful and positive interactions surrounding Sanofi’s drug and vaccine clinical development activities.

• Working as a member of the Development leadership team and ensuring support of Clinical Scientific Operations, Patient Informed Development,  and Evidence Generation and Decision Support 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 Regulatory, Digital PV), 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 clinical development functional strategies and operational improvement plans into clear, coherent, and value-based digital strategy and roadmap across technologies involved in patient-focused drug and vaccine development.  

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

• Directly manage Development’s Digital Guiding Coalition as the main decision body 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.

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