Head of Strategy and Operations, Immunology

Job Title: Head of Strategy and Operations, Immunology

About the Job

Join the team transforming care for people with immune challenges, rare diseases, cancers, and neurological conditions. In Specialty Care, you’ll help deliver breakthrough treatments that bring hope to patients with some of the highest unmet needs.

Reporting to the Global Head of Immunology, the Head of Strategy & Operations plays a crucial role in overseeing and optimizing the day-to-day operations of the franchise to ensure efficiency, productivity, and alignment with strategic goals. The individual in this position will initiate and lead strategic workstreams and be responsible for strategic deliverables, including presentations to senior management. In addition, they will lead a team of individuals who work on cross-TA deliverables such as brand planning, key congress planning, etc. and provide guidance to the Immunology Franchise Leadership Team (IFLT) to ensure effective decision making. In doing these, the Head of Strategy & Operations leads cross-functional teams, implements streamlined processes, drives continuous improvement initiatives, and represents the franchise in designated meetings.  

About Sanofi:
We’re an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.

Main Responsibilities:

Support the Strategy

• Act as a thought-partner to the Global Franchise Head around opportunities and challenges surrounding this now bigger and more complex franchise and help develop a 18- to 24- month calendar of strategic workstreams, deliverables and communications, and roll out of the approved TAS strategy.

• Partner with Franchise LT to understand and align operational strategies with overall business objectives.

• Proactively initiate discussions on key meetings (Immunology forums, townhalls, connect meetings, live events, etc.), engage the LT for alignment and execute.

• With input from the Global Franchise Head, build storylines for key presentations, align and develop slide decks.

• Identify future opportunities and challenges common to all TAs around ways of working (e.g., sharing best practices, GBT structures, etc.), key processes (Brand Planning, Strat Plan, etc.) and key deliverables.  

• Develop and implement operational plans that support the franchise's long-term goals.

• Oversee the consistency of execution of all activities related to SILC global launch and operational excellence.

• Champion the financial strategic planning and annual budgeting process, launch governance, and implementation of other key projects and initiatives to support Franchise ambition. Maximize engagement and efficiency with various providers.

• Scope and drive key franchise-wide projects that enable short -term excellence in execution and maximize long-term strategic ambition.

Orchestrating the execution

• Lead annual brand planning process across TAs.

• Plan and execute Franchise’s participation in key international congresses.

• Lead and manage global digital initiatives for the Franchise.

• Set up and maintain Franchise governance including On-boarding of new joiners into the Franchise

• Support the execution of the goals through monitoring of related KPIs.

Leading Teams

• Attract and recruit top talent, motivate the team, delegate effectively, celebrate diversity within the team, and manage performance; widely viewed as a strong developer of others.

• Advance best practices and contribute to operational excellence of the Franchise team’s ways of working and collaboration across teams at global level and global/local teams under the GLocal model.

• Encourages others to share the spotlight and visibly celebrates and supports the success of the team.

About You  

Candidate Profile

The Head of Strategy & Operations will be a dynamic, strategic yet pragmatic, and experienced individual with a strong track record of strategic and operational roles. They must have the proven ability to effectively manage complex and ambiguous projects, influence stakeholders without authority, effectively network across the organization, communicate with senior leaders all within a fast moving, competitive and dynamic commercial environment, and proactively plan for the future in an effort to keep the Global Head and the IFLT few steps ahead of the present.

Experience Qualifications

• A minimum of a Bachelors Degree is required. Advanced Degree is preferred

• A minimum of 10 years of professional business experience is required

• Background: Keen understanding and focus on business and balancing strategic choices with excellence in execution. Consulting experience is a plus

• Robust Strategic and analytical thinking and storytelling skills are required. Collaboration, conceptual and innovation skills

• Cross-Functional Team Leadership and ability to influence significant line and matrix management experience, including strong transversal collaboration on key functions such as R&D, Regulatory, Commercial, IA. Strong project management expertise

• Talent: Track record of building effective cross-functional teams, and attracting, engaging, developing, and retaining top performers and high potentials

• Stakeholder engagement: track record for advocating for and influencing key stakeholders in the organization. Demonstrates resilience in the face of challenges and obstacles

Skills

• Strategic and visionary: Executes in the “here and now”, but plans for and anticipates the future.

• Strong communicator: Communicates a compelling and inspiring vision and sense of purpose. Can translate complex strategic vision into tangible and concrete actionable initiatives

• Story-teller: Can quickly and effectively pull together a storyboard or presentation for senior management discussions

• Results-oriented: Pragmatic, execution-oriented and comfortable with ambiguity and adapts with agility. Strong analytical background. Takes calculated risks and anticipates potential issues

Strong collaboration and solution-oriented leadership

• Relationship-builder and influencer: inspires trust through empathy and authenticity. Empowers and recognizes others to create powerful relationships and networks. Excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills. Seen as a valued voice with relevant insights to the business and stakeholders

• Change agent and leader in an ever-evolving environment, with demonstrated use of change management strategies/tactics to influence new ways of thinking and working. Proved track record of challenging the status-quo

• Ability to navigate with political savviness through complex and competing priorities, while remaining focused on the big picture

• Manages conflict with composure and demonstrates managerial courage Embodies Sanofi’s Play to Win behaviors to support a cultural transformation

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.