Manager, Customer Facing Effectiveness Canada

30% of travel expected

About the Job:

We are an innovative global healthcare company, committed to transforming the lives of people with immune challenges, rare diseases and blood disorders, cancers, and neurological disorders. From R&D to sales, our talented teams work together, revolutionizing treatment, continually improving products, understanding unmet needs, and connecting communities. We chase the miracles of science every single day, pursuing progress to make a real impact on millions of patients around the world.

Strategic context:

Sanofi has currently the best and more robust pipeline of R&D and consequent new launches of our history. As new phase of Play-To-Win strategy, funding this pipeline and new launches is key to materialize the miracles of the science to improve people lives. Thus, as we enter into the next phase, modernization of Sanofi is required as per the recent announcements on DRIVE, and in this respect, we are in the beginning stages of organizing the Go-to-Market Capabilities (GTMC) team at global level.

GTMC organization will help us to drive best-in-class capabilities across the board and bring value and excellence in our commercial operations. This move is a key part of the aimed modernization of Sanofi and will allow us to focus on our priorities across our products, market and pipeline through the reallocation of resources and realizing the efficiencies of removing silos that exist between our business units, avoiding the duplication and overlapping of resources, standardizing our processes and tools, operating with a One Sanofi approach to accelerate our key capabilities development, and fostering the entrepreneurial spirit by speeding up the decision making.

GTMC organization aims for:

• Centralization of Go-to-Market excellence and operational tasks across GBUs,

• Standardizing best-in-class capabilities with strengthened global support while verticalization of reporting within GTMC from local to global,

• Defining clear ways of working and bringing clarity on interfaces with GBUs, Digital, and executional support on commercial operations from Sanofi hubs to optimize process excellence and efficiency and leveraging best, and

• Establishing best-in-cost solutions by leveraging our bargain power with preferred suppliers established by Procurement.

As part of GTMC, vision of the Customer Facing Capabilities pillar is the definition of Sanofi-wide best-in-class strategies for training and learning, target and segmentation, incentives, operations planning, performance management, GTM deployment, and administration of all used tools to provide the best support for our field forces, fostering standardization and respecting key particularities of each geography in order to enable impeccable execution and to reach high performance. GTMC will also collaborate closely with Digital to provide consistent global tools and with Procurement to guarantee the leverage of global deals with preferred suppliers.  The leaders of each GTMC pillar will have to ensure perfect integration among them.

Main Responsibilities:

As a Customer Facing Effectiveness Specialist:

• You will be a member of Canada Customer Facing Capabilities Team.

• You will continuously work with Canada leaders and field force to deliver the value and insights as true partner in enabling business growth.

• You will foster partnerships and close collaboration between cross-functional teams (i.e. Marketing, Medical, GTMC, Digital, Procurement, P&C, and Finance) and drive structured ways of working between teams to provide maximum value to business teams, field forces, and our external customers.

• You will role model Play-To-Win principles, delivering high performance in the “what’s” and “how’s”.

• Support driving effectiveness of Customer Facing Capabilities and optimal field resources deployment (GTM) cross GBU in alignment with strategic corporate imperatives.

• Support implementation of global policies, internal controls, and process guidance’s to boost standardization and simplification: field activity management, incentives, target setting, customer segmentation and targeting, field design and resource allocation.

• Support tracking of field effectiveness through KPIs and tools.

• Collaborate with other GTMC pillars, Global Process Owners (GPOs) and Digital to avoid any fragmented solution.

• Collaborate for the co-building of transformation programs (e.g. Turing, GenAI, new tools).

• Ensure delivery of best-in-class and best-in-cost support to our businesses and respective field forces.

• Collect key local challenges and bottlenecks.

About You:

Experience:

• 3+ years relevant experience

• Experience working in a Commercial Operations environment, especially in supporting field force operations.

• Project management background.

• Proven delivery of outstanding results.

Personal Characteristics:

• High persistency and resilience, hands-on, accountability, creativity, initiative, stress management, learning agility, result orientation, ability to work on one’s own, continuous improvement, listening skills.

Soft and Technical skills:

• Numerate and with good analytical skills;

• Ability to prioritize;

• Financial acumen;

• Ability to work on their own initiative and make quality decisions;

• Excellent interpersonal skills to communicate, present, persuade and argument among all GBUs teams and partners;

• Has well-developed time management skills, mastering in prioritizing tasks and planning own workloads to ensure deadlines and desired results are met.

Education:

• Higher education in Business Administration, Finance or a similar field

Languages:

• Excellent knowledge of English and French language (spoken and written)

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.