
Digital Risk Advisory Lead –MSAT and Engineering
Barcelona, SpainLyon, France Permanent Posted on Feb. 28, 2025 Closing on May. 30, 2025
Job title:Digital Risk Advisory Lead –MSAT and Engineering
- Locations: Barcelona, Lyon
- Hybrid
- Full time
About the job
At Sanofi, we’re committed to providing the next-gen healthcare that patients and customers need. It’s about harnessing data insights and leveraging AI responsibly to search deeper and solve sooner than ever before. Join our Digital Risk & Compliance team (DRC) as Digital Risk Advisor for MSAT and Engineering and you can help make it happen. Your job ? Be the Digital Risk & Compliance Partner of solution teams of the MSAT and Engineering domains to provide expert guidance and consultation on Digital solution lifecycle risks and controls.
Main responsibilities:
- Level-Specific Responsibilities (Lead)
- Work closely with the Digital teams to review the project and application/IT asset portfolio to mobilize risk and compliance support to meet stakeholder needs
- Accountable for the appropriate DRC staffing of PODs, programs, and services
- Oversee, monitor, and report on all Digital Risk & Compliance activities for Business Area or Domain
- Maintain end-to-end accountability and plan the workload for Business Area or Domain
- Oversee governance for in-scope Business Area or Domain; manage or contribute to relevant Communities of Practice (COPs)
- Lead teams in project advisory and deliver strategic & tactical support to Digital teams
- Stakeholder Relationship Management
- Serve as DRC’s primary point of contact for Digital / Business solution owners and teams
- Manage extended team (CyberSecurity, Data Privacy, AI…) interactions with Digital / Business solution owners and teams, engaging subject matter resources where needed
- Orchestrate risk management & compliance with extended team support to create a cohesive customer experience
- Risk Advisory
- Proactively engage Digital solution teams to understand their solution roadmaps and upcoming priorities
- Provide end to end solution lifecycle (SLC) support and guidance to Digital / Business solution owners and teams, including during risk profile execution, control implementation, and risk management / action planning, and across risk & compliance domains
- Advise on and support the effective risk and compliance management of third parties, including SaaS / cloud suppliers
- Closely manage the engagement lifecycle from intake through completion, prioritizing actions based on risk and urgency
- Audit, Inspection & Assurance Support
- Provide support and guidance to Digital / Business solution owners and teams during audit, inspection, and assurance activities (periodic reviews, internal control & SOX campaigns, third party assessments & contractual clauses, risk monitoring)
- Provide post-audit/assurance support for action planning
- Training & Education
- Deliver formal training sessions (online/in-person, where applicable only) or use advisory methodologies (on-the-job assistance) to educate Digital & Business teams on risk domains and risk control activities
- Participate in risk domain communities of practice to drive knowledge-sharing and cross-training on domain-specific topics
- Continuous Improvement
- Identify opportunities to further enable Digital self-service and to scale & optimize SLC and controls; work with DRC process leads to drive changes
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of the digital risk & compliance policies, processes, & frameworks by sharing feedback from Digital and the Business with the DRC team
About you
- Experience: Quality Management, Computerized Systems compliance (GxP, SOX, Data Privacy, Cyber), or Information Technology contributing to regulated projects or system lifecycle activities
- Soft and technical skills: Hands on knowledge of IT lifecycle approaches (including Agile practices); experience in systems validation and required controls to mitigate risks to compliance; Understanding of relevant life sciences IT risk domains and controls (e.g., GxP, Privacy, Cyber Security, SOX); Ability to identify and act on next wave of regulatory compliance risks (e.g., data science, AI, ML) Stakeholder relationship management (strong interpersonal skills)
- Adaptability to a changing and highly dynamic work environment; Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills; Demonstrated leadership skills and ability to effectively influence and make decisions, in a global setting
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in a scientific, engineering or Digital/IT discipline
- Languages: Excellent written and oral communication in English
Why choose us?
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?
- Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.
- Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
- Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.
- Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.
“The Digital Risk & Compliance team for manufacturing shopfloor is key to support Digital teams on programs that transform the core business of Sanofi in producing and delivering drug products to our patients, bringing insights and advice on risks and compliance across multiple risk domains, ensuring compliance with internal controls and regulations.”
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At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.
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Pursue progress. Discover extraordinary.
Progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. You can be one of those people. Chasing change, embracing new ideas and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Let’s pursue progress. And let’s discover extraordinary together.
At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.
Watch 'One day at Sanofi' and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion initiatives at sanofi.com
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