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Global Head of Commercial Data Foundations

Cambridge, Massachusetts Permanent Date posted 26/06/2024
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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 Global Business Unit as Regional Head of Investigations and Monitoring, North America and you can help make it happen. Your job? The Global Head of Commercial Data Foundations is responsible for the overall Commercial Data Foundations strategy and implementation of all digital/data products including:

  • Build best-in-class Commercial Data Foundations capabilities providing quality data at scale efficiently to power priority use cases & enable data-driven decision-making across commercial teams.
  • Drive high standardization, simplification & efficiency of data platform landscape via convergence, simplification, silo breaking & harmonization.
  • Design and guide Sanofi overall strategyon Commercial Data Foundations to pro-actively prepare the organization to meet current and future commercial needs for data-drive use cases.
  • Design / build / run prioritized digital products to continuously expand & improve Commercial Data Foundations towards highest value data assets & features.
  • Work closely with global data COE and commercial advanced analytics & AI teams to define data & analytics tools / platforms / technology required to maximize value of data foundations.
  • Collaborate with digital and business units to establish and implement the relevant commercial data standards and best practices including on commercial data governance/management with the GTMC organization
  • Collaborate closely with business to ensure adoption & impact of Commercial Data Foundations.

Our Global Digital Business Team is focused on driving and accelerating digital transformation via delivery of digital products (marketing technology platforms, digital therapeutics, patient support, Medical, AI, etc.) across the different Global Business Units, therapeutic areas and markets. Our digital products are directed at patients, physicians and/or payers. This team works to implement Sanofi’s Digital strategy by bringing dedicated expertise internally at Sanofi and externally with digital and/or technology partners to build the core digital foundation and drive growth thru digital across all business areas.

The Global Head of Commercial Data Foundations leads Commercial Data Foundations team which consists Commercial Data Foundations product lines, commercial data engineering center of excellence & commercial data governance custodianship lead.

S/he creates and maintains the vision and the priorities across all related digital initiatives, identify new digital opportunities, prioritize business units wide digital initiatives, manage the delivery and act as a change catalyst across the three business units’ leadership teams.

Working closely with the different business senior leaders, and across the different digital product lines, s/he ensures that we are clearly identifying customer needs, prioritizing features, and guiding the work.

S/he spearheads in the development of business approach to identify, measure, and monitor the business impact of each or across multiple digital solutions.

Main responsibilities:

  • Accountable for Commercial Data Foundations strategy for commercial domain based on business priorities and changing ecosystem,
  • Responsible for leading and managing the Commercial Data Foundations product portfolio with a goal to scale to a global distribution
  • Responsible for leading Commercial Data Engineering center of excellence
  • Responsible for data governance enablement in commercial in collaboration with GBU data governance leader (GTMC Insights & Analytics head)

About you: Job Skills & Competencies

  • A minimum of a bachelor’s degree is required in a relevant field, such as: Computer Science, Data Science, Information Technology, Statistics, Business Administration with a focus on Information Systems, master’s degree (preferred) in a specialized area, such as: Data Science, Business Analytics, MBA with a focus on technology management.
  • Solid industry background and understanding & possess a strong business acumen.
  • Proven record of creating and implementing successful digital initiatives.
  • Successful management of large digital and technology initiatives.
  • Successful at building a culture of performance and accountability.
  • Proven record of developing people and leadership skills in diverse markets
  • Languages: English a must, French a plus, other languages a plus

Technical Competencies

  • Programming Skills e.g. Python, R, or Java for data manipulation, automation, and model development.
  • Advanced Data Analysis Skills with proficiency in statistical analysis, predictive modelling, and data mining techniques.
  • Data Management: Experience with relational databases e.g., SQL, NoSQL, Graph/Vector databases and Data Lakes.
  • Proficiency in Data Visualization Tools like Tableau, Power BI, or Qlik
  • Machine Learning and AI: Knowledge of machine learning algorithms and techniques for predictive analytics, clustering, and classification tasks.
  • Data Governance and Compliance: Understanding of data governance principles, compliance regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA), and best practices for data management.\
  • Data Integration: Experience with data integration tools and techniques for combining data from disparate sources, APIs, and systems (i.e. IICS preferred).
  • Cloud Computing: Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud for scalable storage, computation, and analytics.
  • Data Warehousing: Knowledge of data warehousing concepts and experience with platforms like Redshift, Snowflake, or Google BigQuery.
  • Data Quality Assurance: Ability to ensure data quality and integrity through data cleansing, validation, and error handling processes.
  • Advanced Analytics Techniques: Understanding of advanced analytics techniques such as sentiment analysis, network analysis, and text mining
  • Experience with API development and integration.

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.

  • Contribute to continuous improvement of current programs aligned to Sanofi’s Play to Win approach.

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But 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. So, let’s be those people.

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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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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