Global Product Owner

R2834811 Global Product Owner

Department: Digital Portfolio and Governance

About the Job

Ready to grow your skills while helping shape the future of healthcare? At Sanofi, you’ll be empowered to learn, ask questions, and bring your ideas to life – all while supported by inspiring mentors and collaborative teams.

Sanofi spends hundreds of millions annually on software licenses—yet visibility into what we own, use, and need remains fragmented. Today, license data lives across disconn is reactive, and optimization happens manually. Tomorrow, License Patrol will deliver a single, intelligent platform that continuously discovers, tracks, optimizes, and governs every software asset.

As Global Product Owner, you will shape the vision, drive the roadmap, and lead delivery of a product that transforms software spend into strategic value—ensuring compliance, eliminating waste, and enabling-driven decisions across IT, Finance.

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:

What you will lead

Define the Global Vision — Intelligent Software Asset Optimization

• Set the direction for continuous, automated software asset visibility an management.

• Champion a platform where IT, Procurement, Finance, and Legal teams access real-time insights into license entitlements, usage, compliance gaps, and optimization opportunities.

• Anchor product strategy in measurable outcomes: audit readiness, cost avoidance, license harvesting, vendor consolidation, and risk mitigation.

Build and Own the Product Roadmap

Prioritize capabilities that modernize Software Asset Management:

• Automated discovery and inventory across cloud, on-premise, and SaaS environments

• License entitlement vs. usage analytics with AI-powered optimization recommendations

• Compliance dashboards and audit readiness reporting

• License harvesting and reclamation workflows

• Vendor relationship insights (renewal forecasting, contract alignment, risk scoring)

• Integration with ITSM, procurement, and finance systems for seamless lifecycle management

• Proactive alerts for license expirations, over/under-deployment, and compliance risks

• Align roadmap globally across ITSec, and vendor management teams.

Deliver Incremental Value Every Sprint

• Manage the backlog with clarity and discipline—prioritizing high-impact, high-visibility wins.

• Work hand-in-hand with delivery teams to break complexity into deployable increments.

• Ensure reduced license spend, faster audit response, improved compliance scores, or increased license utilization rates.

Enable Global Cross-Functional Partnership

• Bring together IT asset managers, procurement category leads, finance controllers, compliance officers, and vendor teams across regions.

• Ensure the product connects software inventory data, procurement contracts, financial actuals, and usage telemetry in a consistent, global view.

• Communicate simply and confidently at VP/C-level to secure funding, alignment, and adoption across geographies and functions.

Drived Insights and Automation

Use AI and advanced analytics to build:

• Predictive license demand models based on historical usage and business growth

• Automated compliance scoring with risk-based prioritization

• Smart harvesting recommendations to reclaim unused licenses

• Vendor spend optimization insights (consolidation opportunities, negotiation leverage)

• Proactive renewal alerts and workflows integrated with procurement and finance

• Champion modern AI tooling to accelerate data enrichment, anomaly detection, and decision support.

About You

• Deep experience in digital product ownership, enterprise SaaS, or IT asset/license management platforms.

• Strong understanding of software asset management, license compliance, vendor IT financial management (ITFM).

• Skilled in Lean/Agile methodologies, user-centered design, and data-driven prioritization.

• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders—CFOs, CIOs, Procurement VPs—and drive cross-functional alignment in complex, global organizations.

• Curious and confident using AI tools, analytics platforms, and emerging technologies for automation and insights.

• Bachelor's degree with 3-5 years of experience digital product ownership.

Preferred

• Experience with SAM (e.g., Flexera, Snow, ServiceNow SAM, Aspera) or ITAM frameworks 19770, ITIL).

• Background in IT procurement, software vendor negotiations, or audit models (AWS, Azure, Microsoft 365, Oracle, SAP).

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

• Lead a flagship global product that directly impacts Sanofi's bottom line—unlocking millions in cost avoidance and optimization annually.

• Build an experience that blends intelligent automation, real-time compliance monitoring, and actionable insights ford business leaders.

• Work in a diverse, ambitious environment driving Sanofi's digital transformation and operational excellence.

• Shape a product with direct business impact—reducing audit risk, eliminating software negotiations, and enabling strategic IT investment decisions.

• Grow your career in a company committed to innovation, inclusion, and meaningful progress—where technology enables breakthroughs in healthcare.

This position is for a current vacant role that we are actively hiring for.​

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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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.

Toute compensation sera déterminée en fonction de l'expérience démontrée. Les employés peuvent être admissibles à participer aux programmes d'avantages sociaux de l'entreprise. Des informations supplémentaires sur les avantages sociaux peuvent être trouvées ici.