R&D Asset Portfolio Data Analytics - Digital Product Line Owner

Reference No. R2710705

Position Title: R&D Asset Portfolio Data Analytics - Digital Product Line Owner

Department: Digital R&D Data Applications Portfolio

Location: Bridgewater, NJ

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 to have a greater impact on global health.

Sanofi has recently embarked into a vast and ambitious digital transformation program through a partnership between Sanofi business & digital functions. Part of this effort includes bringing all IT, Digital and Data functions under a Global Chief Digital Officer reporting to Sanofi’s CEO. The new Digital organization has now finalized a 3-year strategy that will drive business growth and reduce cost via efficiency.

A cornerstone of this program is the acceleration of the digitalization of the research and development (R&D) processes and the continuous improvement of its R&D tools and other solutions including within the research function to leverage AI, machine learning and advanced analytics to generate differentiating insights, de-risk and make better data-driven decisions to ultimately bring better drugs and vaccines to market and therefore improve and save more lives. 

In this context, Sanofi is recruiting a Director, R&D Asset Portfolio Data Analytics Product Line Owner, reporting to the Head of Asset Portfolio & Transversal Data Products.

Position Summary:

The Data Analytics Product Line owner is a key role which is part of the Global R&D Data Products organization and will be responsible for establishing and sustaining innovative R&D portfolio management AI/ML and analytics data products which advance pharma & vaccines R&D objectives.   The Product line owner owns the entire lifecycle of the set of product/s from idea through explore, validate, grow, sustain, and eventually retire AI / analytics products.  (S)he is a key decision maker and accountable to the business for delivering value to their customers. (S)he conceives, defines, tests, delivers, monitors, refines, and withdraws digital products to maximize business results. (S)he conducts customer research and works with key stakeholders across research, technology, data science and data governance organizations to develop and deliver AI / analytics data products to achieve the business objectives.

Key Responsibilities :

Product Strategy, Vision & Business Management

• Works closely with key business & digital stakeholders to define and communicate the product vision and roadmap in alignment with broader organization goals. Ensures Product strategy alignment with Digital Architecture guidelines and Data strategy.

• Lead a team of product team members and influence key digital/business stakeholders to align on AI/ML/Analytics strategy for the business area and follow a disciplined product discovery approach to translate ideas into a prioritized backlog of AI/ML/analytics data product use cases which maximize business outcomes for new and continuous improvement of existing capabilities. Stay abreast of external R&D business and technology roadmap trends to guide and contribute to ideas and prioritization. 

• Actively and hands-on lead engineers and visualization experts to deliver analytics visualization solutions aligned with product backlog priorities including wrapping algorithms into apps, buildout of visualization tools and dashboards across R&D analytic products.

• Designs analytic delivery frameworks, drives features prioritization effort to maximize business outcomes and continuously improve user experience. Contributes to the definition and to maintain the Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) to help ensure that analytic solutions meet relevant regulations, standards, and other system quality requirements using tools such as Jira, ServiceNow, and Confluence.

• Defines KPIs and value proposition and act according to impacts (Continue, Adjust or Sto