RnD Strategy Senior Director

Job Title: RnD Strategy Senioer Director

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. 

The Global R&D Strategy and Portfolio Management team’s overarching objective is to equip Sanofi’s leaders with robust, objective and externally focused insights and recommendations they need to better inform the R&D strategy, organizational change and portfolio and project investment decisions to ensure pipeline sustainability. 

We achieve this by (1) delivering a comprehensive R&D strategy positioning the organization to embrace future opportunities and challenges, driving sustained success (2) by ensuring a sustainable portfolio strategy, robust valuation and prioritization of the R&D portfolio and optimization of resources, high quality pipeline reporting, benchmarking, and scientific competitive intelligence (3) by ensuring high quality investment governance incorporating decision quality and thoughtful risk taking principles.

The Global R&D Portfolio Strategy and Management team works with key stakeholders across the organization (R&D, Medical and GBUs) to support decision-making aligned to our corporate strategy and agreed TA strategies.

The R&D Strategy team is looking to add a team-oriented member to its internal consulting capability to drive R&D strategy and decision making. As a Leader within this group, you will gain exposure to all functions, therapy areas and come to truly understand the company-wide vision. You will develop a deep understanding of investment choices across R&D and strategic objectives the organization is aiming to achieve to enable its ambition.

The R&D Strategy Director will play a pivotal role in shaping the R&D including the medical affairs initiatives of the organization and drive decisions for Sanofi at governance meetings (e.g., Executive Committee and Board of Director meetings). You will work closely with cross-functional senior members (such as but not limited to: R&D, Medical Affairs, Commercial, Finance, Business Development and M&A) to align R&D efforts with the company’s objectives. Your ability to manage ambiguity, structure complex strategic problems and conduct complex analyses, present findings, and help facilitate decision-making will be key to the group’s success.

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:

Strategic planning:

• Growth Story & rationale: articulate growth ambition, strategy and gap to meet company objectives. Safeguard integrity of the R&D strategy by challenging and influencing key decisions that could disrupt delivery

• Structure and perform scenarios and simulations to model and value strategic alternatives and trade-offs with the aim of maximizing efficiencies and value at a company level

• Conduct market research and data-driven analysis leveraging AI to identify trends and market needs to guide innovation efforts in the organization

• Refine R&D vision, roadmap and priorities working with functional leaders (e.g., CMC, development) in alignment with company ambition

• Communication: articulate clear and consistent narrative and messaging with executive members (e.g., Executive Committee) and stakeholders inside and outside R&D organization

Organization:

• Challenging and optimizing our organizational structure, ways of working, processes and governance leveraging industry best practices to identify synergies, improve efficiencies, and foster interactions across departments to accelerate the delivery of high-quality drugs to market

• Navigating complex challenges and developing cutting-edge strategies to maintain our company's leadership position.

Digital and AI:

• Foster a culture of AI-driven innovation by staying ahead of emerging digital trends (e.g., quantum computing) and encouraging teams to prioritize and leverage technologies

First Priority Project. The successful candidate will support Medical Affairs’ new operating model by:

• Providing objective challenges to implementation decisions

• Incorporating relevant industry best practices to inform the decis