Head of EBI France and Western Europe, Sanofi CHC ( all genders)

Sanofi CHC

At Sanofi Consumer Healthcare, we're building healthier future by helping people help themselves. We empower people to champion better self-care for themselves, our communities and our planet by making it as simple as it should be. We are a brand led, consumer first organization focused on growing our leading loved brands like Buscopan®, Nospa®, Enterogermina®, Allegra®, Dulco®, or Essentiale® to help more people play an active role in their health. Working together, we're focused on simplifying our business, clarifying roles and responsibilities and driving personal accountability to improve collaboration and excellence of execution while role-modeling and fostering challenger mindset across the whole organization to enable everyone to bring out their best every day.

Our Team

We are Sanofi’s CHC (Opella’s) Ethics and Business Integrity (EBI) team.

We are a team of strategic business stakeholders who establish the Fit-for-Purpose EBI Program to address CHC business needs and ethics, compliance and privacy risks and who drive cultural transformation enabling fast ethical decision-making and accountability.

Our mission is to enable Opella to respond to consumers and society’s expectations for an ethical and compliant business conduct and be recognized as a strongly ethical business.

To successfully accomplish our mission, we demonstrate the following mindset and behaviours: we are strategic business owners, proactive, innovators, externally focused, impact based, role models and focused on value creation.

The Head of EBI France and Western Europe (Belux, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Switzerland, Greece, UK) drives the implementation and continuous enhancement of Global Ethics & Business Integrity (EBI) Program and drives the ethical cultural transformation enabling ethical decision making, conduct and accountability in France and Western Europe zone.

Key responsibilities:

• Drive implementation and continuous enhancement of a Fit-For-Purpose EBI Program for Opella France & Western Europe. This includes policies and procedures, training and communication, risk assessment etc.

• Establish EBI governance and oversight and chair zones Ethics & Compliance Committees

• Provide strategic advice and support to France & Western Europe leadership teams on ethics and compliance related matters

• Provide ethics and compliance advice and support zone stakeholders for a broad spectrum of activities and brands

• Drive cultural transformation through ethical culture initiatives and implement plans to address areas for enhancement based upon ethical culture measurement

• Drive implementation of Third Parties EBI Program in France & Western Europe

• Work closely with the Global EBI team to provide zone insights and information for the enhancement of Global EBI Program

• Work closely with Global Brand EBI Officers for coordination of matters pertaining to country implementation of global brand related activities

• Support ethics and compliance investigations and recommend disciplinary and corrective measures

• Perform predictive monitoring and other reviews to identify, detect, prevent, mitigate and predict risks

• Drive the generation of meaningful insights such as trends, risk areas, areas of enhancement, root causes and outliers through data analytics

• Drive and monitor the execution of enhancement/remedial action plans

• Shape the external environment representing Sanofi CHC in ethics and compliance groups of industry self-care associations and relevant organizations in France & Western Europe countries

About you

Experience:

·10 + years of experience in ethics and compliance and business functions in France

·Experience in countries in countries within the zone of Western Europe is a plus

·Previous experience in HealthCare or Consumer Goods industries

·Previous experience working within multinational and multicultural environments

Technical skills:

·Advanced knowledge of international business ethics and compliance principles, extraterritorial laws and regulations

·Advanced knowledge of Sapin II and US FCPA

·Knowledge of healthcare related laws and regulations applicable in France

·Expertise in providing sound, ethical advice to management on a broad range of business issues

·Good knowledge of MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Word

Education:

·University degree in management/business administration, law or other relevant discipline/qualifications

·Healthcare compliance certifications is a plus

Soft skills & Behaviours:

·Demonstrate an exemplary ethical behaviour; be a role model to team members and other functions

·Sound judgement and critical thinking skills; analytical and problem-solving skills; able to analyse issues and propose pragmatic solutions

·Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; able to succinctly summarize and present complex concepts to business partners

·Leadership and influencing skills; able to navigate and lead resolution of challenging situations and influence senior leaders and stakeholders across all levels  

·Able to work autonomously and cross-functionally

·Ability to work in a fast-paced environment while demonstrating flexibility and a willingness to adapt assignments to meet company’s needs

·Well organized, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced collaborative work environment and manage numerous projects simultaneously under pressure

·Creative thinker who is ready and willing to challenge the status – quo and innovate

·Adaptability to embrace a dynamic and diverse working environment

·Ability to lead, inspire, motivate and develop team members

Languages:

•Excellent written, oral communication and presentation skills in French and English

Why choose us?

• an international work environment, in which you can develop your talent and realize ideas and innovations within a competent team;
• access to internal recruitment and development libraries - you can create your own career path within Sanofi; your professional development will be supported purposefully;
• flexible home office policy, with a possibility to work up to 50% of time from home, where you can easily schedule your office days
• an attractive package of benefits
• Employee Assistance Program (mental health support, legal and financial consulting)
• Gender neutral paid parental leave as well as volunteer days