Strategy & Ops Senior Director, SILC

Job Title: Strategy and Ops Senior Director, Sanofi Integrated Launch Capabilities (SILC)

Location: Cambridge, MA

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.

The Strategy and Operations Specialist role is part of the Sanofi Integrated Launch Capabilities (SILC) organization, which drives the integration of Sanofi’s launch functions to deliver best-in-class excellence for Sanofi launches. This role will support the execution of SILC strategic initiatives, launch foundations, cross-portfolio analytics, and innovation and AI initiatives. You will work closely with the Lead, Strategy & Operations to drive launch innovation, generate actionable insights, and support continuous improvement across Sanofi's launch framework.

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:

SILC Foundations: Elevate best-in-class launch standards and framework

• Lead the evolution and refinement of the SILC framework, ensuring it is best-in-class and adaptable to changing market conditions

• Coordinate with transversal areas (SILC Clusters, COEs, GTMC, LEBI, etc.) to ensure alignment and integration of launch standards

• Manage beta testing initiatives, capturing learnings and insights to drive continuous improvement

• Document and communicate framework updates and best practices to relevant stakeholders

• Assist in developing training materials and resources to support framework adoption

• Serve as a liaison with Hub Operations to ensure seamless implementation of launch frameworks

SILC Suite & Gen AI: Drive digital and AI-powered launch excellence

• Act as business lead for digital initiatives with the SILC Suite – a best-in-class digital launch excellence solution

• Support the development and pilot implementation of Gen AI use cases within the launch ecosystem

• Identify opportunities for AI application in launch processes to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and impact

• Document and share learnings from AI implementations to inform future developments

• Collaborate with training and change management teams to drive SILC Suite usage and AI adoption

• Partner with the Digital Accelerator in the development of the SILC Suite and AI platform, ensuring data quality and system functionality

SILC Quants: Build & enhance operations modules to support Sanofi

• Resourcing: Develop tools and processes to support decisions

• Metrics: Design and maintain performance dashboards and reporting frameworks to measure outcomes and drive continuous improvement

• Budget/strat plan and business cases: Create and manage tracking modules to support informed financial decisions. 

• Governance tracking: Build modules to track performance against governance decisions

Data & Simulation: Drive business launch scenarios and impact-driven decision-making

• Act as business lead for digital initiative with the Launch Simulator

• Support disruptive innovation as business lead of the Launch Simulator, ensuring model relevance, fostering simulation culture within Sanofi, and generating business impact

• Evolve Mission Control functionality, including pre-launch metrics definition, data collection in collaboration with I&A, trend analysis, insights, and Next Best Actions (NBA)

• Gather and integrate external competitor data to enhance launch planning and competitive positioning

• Conduct launch impact analyses to identify trends, opportunities, and challenges across the portfolio

• Prepare data visualisations and reports that translate complex information into actionable insights for the brand & franchise teams.

• In addition, the Strategy & Ops Sr. Director will lead special projects on behalf of SILC.

Note: The Strategy & Ops Sr. Director role expected to perform all main responsibilities and may take ownership of a specific area of focus.

About you

Experience:

• Business leadership experience driving pharmaceutical product launches or launch strategy and operations

• Track record of driving organizational transformation

• Leadership experience driving business innovation, particularly using digital and AI technologies

• Track record of translating data into insights and simulations

• Prior US pharma commercial/launch/market access experience is a plus

• Previous consultancy experience is a plus

Soft and technical skills:

• Knowledge of best-in-class launch excellence practices

• Strong ability to analyse complex processes, identify gaps, and implement scalable solutions

• Proficient in AI-driven insight generation

• Adept at storytelling with data, delivering high-impact presentations, and influencing leadership

• You are a role model of Take The Lead behaviours

Education: A minimum of a Bachelor's Degree is required. MBA/Advanced Degree is desirable.

Languages: Fluent English

Travel: This position may require up to 25% overall business travel.

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.