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Data Strategy Head

Cambridge, Massachusetts
Bridgewater, New Jersey
Northborough, Massachusetts
Permanent Date posted Nov. 20, 2024
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Job Title: Data Strategy Head

Location: Cambridge, MA (Hybrid)

50% Remote working and up to 10% of travel expected.

About the Job

We deliver 4.3 billion healthcare solutions to people every year, thanks to the flawless planning and meticulous eye for detail of our Manufacturing & Supply teams. With your talent and ambition, we can do even more to protect people from infectious diseases and bring hope to patients and their families.

The fundamental role of Operational Excellence & Digital is to:

  • Design, deploy and continuously improve our “best in class” operating standards across EM&S teams : Simplify, Standardize and Digitize.

  • Stimulate performance improvement across the network by:

    Setting the vision of “Smart CMO” and the design/deployment of specific roadmaps leveraging disruptive technologies, digital & innovative training practices

    Framing the Strategic Performance Ambition while being a consistent “service provider” when deviating from targeted trajectory

  • Reinforce and expand Culture of Excellence through specific programs, trainings and best practices sharing.

Operational Excellence & Digital plays an important role to support External Manufacturing & Supply (EM&S) to become a “best in class/first in class” organization.

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:

As External Manufacturing Data Strategy Senior Leader, you will be playing an important role to drive and accelerate our data and digital deployment across External Manufacturing & Supply organization, as key pillar of the modernization of our organization towards faster and more efficient decision making, process standardization to deliver best-in-class performance.

  • Lead the next steps of EM&S digital evolution by accelerating deployment of EM&S data foundation leveraging on Corporate Snowflake data-lake as well as the deployment of Advanced Analytics and AI capabilities across the full EM&S organization.

  • Propose and drive EM&S Data Strategy to support next steps of EM&S growths (size, complexity and performance)

  • Partner with our Digital group to ensure fast deployment of EM&S data foundation into Snowflake solution according to business needs.

  • Build all data views and tables in Snowflake to support operational teams and answer to their needs in terms of reporting and analytics.

  • Work closely with project team on collaborative platform with CMOs to integrate and expend data into our Data Foundation.

  • Support operational teams in developing real time CMO performance management tools and monitoring across organization.

  • Drive fast and insightful decision-making within the organization, leveraging on AI/Plai technological platform and on complex data sets. You will lead and engage EM&S teams to propose/develop correlations between different data sets in order to accelerate predictive solutions deployment to become best-in-class External Manufacturing organization.

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify business opportunities and deploy data-driven solutions to address key challenges.

  • Design and implement predictive models, working in close collaboration with Digital and Plai/aily labs teams, to optimize business processes and enhance CMO & virtual sites performance metrics.

  • Interpret findings from data analysis and communicate actionable insights to stakeholders at all levels of the organization through compelling visualizations and presentations.

About You

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics or related field.

  • Proven experience (10 years or more) working as a data scientist preferably in similar international business industry (pharmaceutical would be a plus).

  • Advanced knowledge and experience on AI technology and machine learning implementation projects.

  • Effective communication and stakeholder management.

  • Project management and cross-functional collaboration.

  • Languages: English

Why Choose Us?

  • 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.

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

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