Associate Director, Emerging Capabilities and Strategic Transitions

Job Title: Associate Director, Emerging Capabilities and Strategic Transitions

Location: Cambridge, MA/ Morristown, NJ

About the Job

Are you ready to shape the future of medicine? The race is on to speed up drug discovery and development to find answers for patients and their families. Your skills could be critical in helping our teams accelerate progress. 

Are you passionate about shaping the Bionic Regulatory Affairs professionals of the future? Join Sanofi's Regulatory Data, Digital & AI (Reg DDAI) team as an Emerging Capability & Strategic Transition Analyst, where you will contribute to building a Movement around Regulatory Data, Digital and AI.

In this role, you will help identify, evaluate, and advance emerging capabilities that align with our core transformation pillars: Translate, Answer, Generate, and Consult. You will drive data-driven decision-making through robust financial analysis and create compelling business cases for senior leadership, all while embodying our leadership principles of being a problem solver, collaborator, and digital enabler for Sanofi.

Your Strategic Impact

• Be a Problem Solver: Prepare, propose and drive solutions, focusing on what customers need to accomplish rather than just what they want

• Be a Collaborator: Build bridges across teams, silos, and perspectives to drive cultural change

• Digitally Enable Sanofi: Drive Sanofi's regulatory transformation through problem-solving and collaboration

• Capability Leadership: Drive the identification and development of emerging capabilities that will shape the future of Regulatory Affairs

• Growth Trajectory: Clear path for professional development and increased responsibility within the team

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

Discover and Develop Emerging Capabilities

• Lead the development, evaluation and prioritization of emerging capabilities aligned with our transformation pillars

• Conduct financial modeling and NPV analysis for key capability investments

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify breakthrough opportunities in regulatory operations

• Present strategic recommendations to functional leadership and key stakeholders

Enable Strategic Transitions

• Direct the transition of capabilities from experimental phase to operational implementation

• Design and oversee transition frameworks ensuring successful capability adoption

• Establish and track metrics to demonstrate ROI and impact of transitioned capabilities

Connect Innovation to Execution

• Build and maintain financial models to track value realization and ROI

• Develop compelling presentations and documentation for senior stakeholder alignment

• Create and manage experimental MVP environments for capability testing

• Lead the scaling process from pilot to enterprise-wide implementation

About You

Experience and education

• 5-8 years of experience in Digital Innovation, Product Development, or R&D Transformation

• Experience in the pharmaceutical, healthcare, or life sciences industry

• Experience in developing business cases, financial models, and NPV analyses for strategic initiatives

• Experience creating experimental MVP environments and scaling products for commercial use

• Experience in presenting to and influencing senior leadership (VP level and above)

• Proven ability to lead with vision and act with courage in challenging environments

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Life Sciences, or related field required

• MBA or advanced degree preferred

• Relevant certifications in Project Management, Product Management, or Innovation practices are a plus

Mindset

• Balances strategic vision with pragmatic execution

• Comfortable with ambiguity and adept at