People & Culture Consultant Lead

Job Title:People & Culture Consultant Lead

Location: Cambridge, MA, Morristown, NJ

About the Job

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? Join Sanofi in one of our corporate functions and you can play a vital part in the performance of our entire business while helping to make an impact on millions around the world. 

Sanofi is an emerging leader in immunology, poised to transform medicine by rebalancing the immune responses that cause systemic, chronic diseases. We’re building on the success of Dupixent® in atopic dermatitis and asthma and developing new solutions for people with debilitating immuno-dermatological, rheumatic, respiratory, and gastrointestinal diseases in addition to our proven expertise in vaccines, general medicines, and consumer healthcare. 

Sanofi is on an ambitious transformation journey to become the world’s leading immunology biopharma. The second chapter of our Play to Win journey is about modernizing our commercial operations and supporting functions with a keen sense of urgency and putting in place the right preparations for our exciting pipeline. In order to achieve this transformation, Sanofi is on a journey to attract and develop top diverse talent to join our mission to bring innovation to more and more patients around the world. 

Reporting to the Global Head of Organization Design & Effectiveness, this position will oversee and drive the successful post-close execution of a complex, multi-year program. This role will focus on managing the services, systems, and operational transitions post-close for the People & Culture (also known as HR) Function, ensuring alignment with Transition Service Agreement (TSAs) commitments and long-term business continuity. 

The M&A People and Culture Consultant Lead will work across the People and Culture and People Excellence teams, Digital Services, Finance, Legal and Business Operations to oversee the operation and governance of cloned HR systems (e.g., Workday, Peakon) and data platforms (e.g., Snowflake), as well as the management of multiple TSAs.  The incumbent will be expected to be a strategic advisor to senior stakeholders, put in place the right infrastructure for success, and prioritize actions to achieve tight deadlines.   

As a member of the P&C Strategy and Portfolio CoE, the incumbent will be expected to work in close partnership with business leaders, project teams, and the rest of the P&C community across the geographies.   

The incumbent will be strategic, knowledgeable about people & culture (human resources), have extensive experience in M&A and TSA management, change management, organizational development, implementation, and monitoring. Previous experience in global, regional, and country roles is highly preferred. 

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:

• Lead Divestiture Activities: Lead the post-close execution of a global divestiture program, ensuring seamless transition of People & Culture (P&C) and People Services (PS) functions. 

• Manage Program Governance: Oversee the operation and governance of cloned HR systems (e.g., Workday, Peakon) and data platforms (e.g., Snowflake), working across multiple stakeholders to ensure success.

• TSA Oversight & Delivery: Coordinate and align across multiple TSA service commitments, working with Sanofi and third-party stakeholders to resolve conflicts and ensuring feasibility of execution in a timely manner. 

• Application Integration: Coordinate and align both split and shared downstream application integrations planning and testing strategies to ensure continuity of core processes under the TSAs.  

• Conduct Assessments and Manage Review Process:Conduct comprehensive reviews of existing TSAs for scope, pricing, run rate, and functional fit.  Work across functional teams to develop recommendations and develop implementation plans. 

• Deliver Project Management Services: Actively manage workplans, dependencies, risks and integrations with upstream systems, ensuring continuity and compliance. 

• Manage and Collaborate with Stakeholders: Develop and maintain trusted partnerships with key project or business/function leaders as well as third-party vendors and executives, serving as a reliable advisor for M&A initiatives. Additionally, work with stakeholders to co-create initial approach for sustained success, facilitate stakeholder meetings to achieve key decisions, and regularly provide updates and status throughout the project.  

• Facilitate Business Readiness Activities: Evaluate business readiness, work with others across the project and business/function to develop and implement TSA transition plans. Provide ongoing support for absorption of activities into business as usual operations. 

• Create Leadership Insights: Provide regular updates and strategic insights to senior internal and external stakeholders as well as executive sponsors and develop comprehensive reports to enable data-driven decision making.  

• Support Community Collaboration: Participate in OD/M&A community activities, contributing to internal collaboration, skill development, and best practices sharing. 

• Support Continuous Improvement Initiatives – Gather feedback and brainstorm with others on enhancements to OD/M&A assets by integrating lessons learned, and feedback.  

About You  

• Bachelor’s degree.  

• Minimum of 5 years of M&A / Organization Development experience.  International exposure is desirable. 

• Ability to deliver programs in a cross-functional organization while being flexible and adaptable to work in ambiguous situations. 

• Ability to work successfully in multicultural teams and to build and maintain strong relationships with key local and global stakeholders. 

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both written and verbal English) to clearly articulate key messages to a variety of audiences. 

• Ability to practice efficient time management and coordinate tasks, working in an international environment across time zones. 

• Analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make data-driven decisions. 

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with business acumen. 

• Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. 

• Fluent in 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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All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.