Strategy & Business Development

Location: Bridgewater, NJ

Hybrid Working Schedule: 40% / 60%

Travel Expected: 20% - 25%

Job Type: Full time

About the Job

At Sanofi Consumer Healthcare, we have one shared mission – we work passionately, every day, to ‘serve healthier, fuller lives’ now and for the generations to come.

In order to do so, we strive to act as a force for good by integrating sustainability along our business and employees’ mission and operate responsibly from both a social and environmental point of view.

Everything we do is centered around people’s interests – our consumers, our customers, healthcare professionals, and our employees – across the world.

We are building loved brands that serve 1bn consumers worldwide, through our key platforms: Allergy, Physical & Mental Wellness, Pain, Digestive Wellness and Cough, Cold & Flu.

We aspire to become the best Fast Moving Consumer Health (FMCH) company In & For the world and we aim to build a work environment where people can thrive, grow, enjoy and be at their best.

Main Responsibilities

• Provide thought leadership to the CHC NA organization and leadership team, especially on cross-functional and strategic topics.
• Support the assessment, strategy development, and planning associated with new capabilities, new business initiatives, and other strategic efforts.
• Participate in planning, evaluating, and executing strategic opportunities, which includes strategic review, financial analysis, presentations, due diligence, negotiations, closing, and integration activities.

Operating Rhythm & Thought Partnership

• Support driving the central cross-functional operating rhythm for the CHC leadership team (e.g., setting the agenda, running the meeting, follow-ups with team on critical action items).
• Be a strategic thought partner and leader for the CHC leadership team for some of the business’s hardest problems to solve.
• Demonstrate strong leadership and influence management skills, including the ability and willingness to challenge the status quo.
• Maintain an external mindset, including staying on top of consumer, competitive, and macroeconomic / geopolitical trends.

Strategy & Transformation

• Translate business problems into structured projects that you will lead in end-to-end delivery against key objectives, from hypothesis development to final materials (e.g., project scoping, workplan development, recommendation development).
• Employ solution-oriented mindset to help solve an array of CHC NA’s most business critical, topics.
• Lead analytical workstreams – identify and deconstruct business issues, and develop strategic, analytical, and financial frameworks to conduct analyses and solve critical business issues with minimal oversight from functional leaders.
• Lead & manage teams to deliver on-time and complete deliverables; ensuring recommendations are grounded in fact and actionable.
• Develop and execute on executive-level presentations and communications.

Business Development and M&A

• Develop and execute research that supports the business development strategy resulting in establishing new partnerships.
• Identify the most compelling external opportunities by conducting market research, analyzing the competitive target landscape universe, and building industry network/ relationships.
• Support the development of the M&A pipeline in North America and due diligence of any potential acquisitions in partnership with the global and local teams.
• Structure deals and negotiate with prospective partners.
• Lead and close deals and contract in partnership with legal, finance and other functional areas.
• Establish and strengthen the relationship with the potential external partner throughout the deal process.
• Be a part of the integration leadership team driving the centralized PMO of integration activities and leading select strategic workstreams within it.

About You

Experience

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including sharing ideas and information across diverse audiences, and making presentations in order to drive business decisions.
• Strong performance accountability orientation in terms of following through on commitments.
• Excellent time management, planning, project management, organizational, and analytical skills. Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment, manage multiple priorities, and make ongoing decisions.
• Highest level of integrity and good judgment, with the ability to effectively deal with highly sensitive, confidential information.
• Must be perceptive, a quick study