Job Title: Head of Organizational Development, Business Operations

• Location: Hyderabad, India

We are Sanofi. We are an innovative global healthcare company, driven by one purpose: we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.
Our teams across the world strive to transform the practice of medicine, turning the impossible into the possible for patients. We provide potentially life-changing treatments and the protection of life-saving vaccines to millions of people, and affordable access to our medicines in some of the world’s poorest countries.

About the job

The Head of Organizational Development – Business Operations will partner with the Global Business Operations function and People & Culture leadership, as well as the global OD COE to define the required end-state organizational capabilities to execute strategy, as well as defining and executing the multi-disciplinary capability plan to get there.

Reporting to the Global Head of People, Corporate Functions, the Head of OD will be a key member of both the CF People & Culture Leadership Team and the Organizational Capability & Consulting team (part of the OD COE).

This role will be based in Hyderabad, India.  It does require the ability to connect across global time zones and travel.

Key Responsibilities:

Defining the core capabilities and associated plans for the GBU/GF:

• Partnering with business leadership to develop a fully understanding of the business strategy, competitive landscape, risks and opportunities.

• In partnership with business and P&C leaders, defining the required organizational capabilities needed to win, and deliver this strategy.

• Using both qualitative and quantitative methods to identify and define any key capability gaps.

• Partnering with business, P&C and COE leaders, to identify any shifts in operating model to strengthen the required capabilities – such as Organization Design, Skills Definition & Taxonomy (in partnership with the COE), Strategic Workforce Planning, translating in to buy, build, borrow, bot talent decisions.

• Acting as Project Lead on key cross-functional capability projects, in partnership with P&C peers and pulling on the resources and expertise of the OD COE as needed.

Lead and support the following initiatives while supporting Business Operations:

• Target Operating Model Design: Support design of the target operating model of the entire function, building an organization with the right capabilities to assess, measure and continuously improve our delivery model.

• Strategic Workforce Planning

• Organization Design

• Skills Taxonomy

• Change Management and Implementation

• Organization & Team Effectiveness

• Partnering with Learning/Talent to update and align Learning Portfolios and define 70:20:10 career journeys

• Leverage each location capabilities and competencies to elevate Business Operations to its maximum for all Sanofians.

Additionally, this role will be an active member of the OD COE community:

• Participating in regular COE meetings as well as broader strategic OD forums, sharing best practices across peers supporting other GBUs & functions.

• Playing an active role in the design of global tools, practices & methodologies.

• Acting as a first point of contact for the Transformation Office, to help identify & track high-level transformation activity at an enterprise level.

• Staying abreast of both internal and external innovations and advances within the discipline of organizational capability and transformation, contributing to the expertise & intellectual capital of the function.

About you 

Experience:

• Minimum 15+ years of experience within a global business services environment

• Deep functional expertise and experience in several disciplines that build/elevate Organizational capability including Target operating model design, Strategic workforce planning, Organizational & Team effectiveness, Culture & Change management, or Competency/skills and Learning portfolio design.

Soft and technical skills: 

• Comfortable participating in strategic planning processes

• Expert at identifying and clearly articulating capability plans

• Experienced in designing and executing capability assessments using quantitative (e.g. surveys design and interpretation) and qualitative (e.g. interviews, focus groups, facilitated workshops) methods

• Strong analytical skills and is able to use adept questioning to identify the root causes; separate and synthesize the key points

• Strong collaborator with business and other functional leaders. Able to coordinate and facilitate agreement on paths forwards with teams, to create coherent alignment towards end goals.

• Bring strong execution skills, and are comfortable deploying differing methodologies (waterfall project/program management, or agile cross-functional sprints)

Education: Bachelor´s degree or higher in management or related fields.

Languages: Fluency in English is essential.

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. You can be one of those people. Chasing change, embracing new ideas and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Let’s pursue progress. And let’s discover extraordinary together. 

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