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Digital Strategy Specialist

Toronto, Canada Permanent Date posted Nov. 20, 2024
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Reference No. R2773098

Position Title: Digital Program Management

Department: Digital Strategy

Location: Toronto, Ontario

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 Strategy Team as Digital Program Management and you can help make it happen. Your job?

The Digital Strategy Specialist isan essential role in delivering the various projects, programs and capabilities required to support a Global Digital Strategy and Operations function.

The Digital Strategy Specialist will focus leading and delivering initiatives spanning topics such as Digital strategic plan development, operating model development and implementation, delivering on innovative projects within the Digital and Business organizations using technology, gathering and sharing competitive intelligence, driving the development and KPIs and OKR that help showcase our growth and development using benchmarks, managing innovation programs, and overall communications related to theDigitalorganizationsprogressandmilestones.

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?

Mai​n Responsibilities

  • Facilitate, manage develop and implement components of the Digital strategic plan

  • Support development and execution of the Digital Strategy and Roadmap through monitoring of progress and related KPIs and work with key stakeholders to support delivery and value realization

  • Drive innovation funnel management and resource support innovation projects to support MVP development and effective scalability

  • Lead pods acting as in-house consulting capability, responsible for realignment and support of major program

  • Develop strategic documents and articulating the value associated with digital assets and tools created to support operations and innovation

  • Collaborate with the global Digital leaders across R&D, M&S and Commercial to ensure alignment and milestone-based program delivery

  • Generate outside-in perspective on how the pharma, life sciences, and other industries are evolving through the use of AI, new business models and partnerships / ecosystem establishment

  • Support the accelerated delivery of must-win, high priority programs that support new drug launches

  • Develop and manage roadmaps, milestones and manage risks associated with various programs and projects

  • Coach and support the team development goals and skills development

  • Manage and mature capabilities within the Digital Strategy and Digital Strategic Program functions

  • Coordinate, plan, and facilitate workshops, presentations and other discussions to help navigate / progress projects

  • Escalate risks and issues to appropriate governance bodies to effectively manageW

  • Develop a people strategy to ensure effective growth of the organization

  • Coordinate preparatory work and briefing materials for key meetings

  • Bachelor's degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) field.

About You

Key Qualifications and Competencies

  • 4-6 years of experience within the Pharma industry, Technology Consulting and / or Data and AI product management experience

  • Demonstrated data-driven, technology-enabled, people-centered consulting experiences (Strategic Thinker)

  • Demonstrated ability to navigate complex topics and effectively communicate them in a simple manner to support executive decision making

  • Emphasize focus on delivering outcomes, rather than outputs that can help move the digital organization towards the value targets intended

  • Product management skillsets

  • Ability to lead agile teams

  • Ability to manage strategic partnerships internally and externally

  • Ability to work cross-functionally, strong team player

  • Excellent problem-solving skills, analytical and strategic capabilities

  • Ability to deal with ambiguity and work in autonomy with limited guidelines.

  • Effective communication and interpersonal skills.

Desired traits 

  • Strategic planner and project management

  • Resultsdriven

  • PMO skills

  • Data storyteller

  • Emotional Intelligence

  • Self-driven, Results-oriented

  • Ability to proactively voice different perspectives

  • Multi-Tasker

  • Eagerness to learn, inquisitive

  • Active listener

  • Resistance to stress

  • Rigor, attention to details

  • High workcapacity / Flexibility

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

Sanofi is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. Our goal is to attract, develop and retain highly talented employees from diverse backgrounds, allowing us to benefit from a wide variety of experiences and perspectives. We welcome and encourage applications from all qualified applicants.  Accommodations for persons with disabilities required during the recruitment process are available upon request.

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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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