Product Owner - Digital Enablement

Reference No. R2877240 Position Title: Product Owner Location: Toronto, ON - Hybrid - 3 days per week onsite - required.   About the job Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? Join Sanofi in one of our corporate functions and you can play a vital part in the performance of our entire business while helping to make an impact on millions around the world.   We're looking for a Product Owner to drive the discovery, delivery, and continuous improvement of a connected suite of digital portfolio products. You'll work at the intersection of user needs, data, and organizational strategy — defining problems worth solving, shaping measurable outcome-based goals, and partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver real value. This is a hands-on role for someone who communicates with clarity, thrives in ambiguity, and knows how to keep a team moving in the right direction.     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:   1. Own Product Outcomes and Value You are accountable for defining, pursuing and validating outcomes that create tangible user and business value. • Define data-as-a-product goals and measurable success metrics tied to user behavior and business value. • Translate ambiguous problems into measurable outcomes, using user insights and data rather than assumptions • Connect day-to-day delivery with long-term value through outcome-oriented sprint goals. • Track value metrics post-release, interpret real user behavior (not just delivery velocity), and use cloud data platform and GenAI insights to adapt direction.   2. Lead Continuous Product Discovery You are accountable for reducing uncertainty and ambiguity through continuous discovery. • Lead the product trio (Product Owner, Strategy, and Engineering) in dual-track discovery and delivery. • Frame hypotheses and assumptions; set a learning goal for every sprint. • Use interviews, journey mapping and assumption testing to understand what is worth solving. • Run experiments to validate ideas before committing engineering effort.   3. Prioritize Based on Value, Learning and Opportunity Cost You are accountable for prioritization decisions that optimize value and flow. • Own and reorder the backlog based on evidence and impact, not urgency or pressure. • Balance value, feasibility, risk and learning. • Filter out noise, protect team focus, and say "no" or "not yet" with clear rationale.   4. Represent the User and Build Shared Understanding You are accountable for keeping business vision and user needs at the center of decisions. • Address user problems and needs within the data mesh approach. • Translate business vision into epics, features and user stories. • Use story mapping, journey mapping, conceptual data models, data flow diagrams and collaborative design sessions to align teams on the why before the how. • Make dependencies, trade-offs and priorities visible across the team.   5. Engage and Align Stakeholders You are accountable for alignment, trust and clarity across stakeholders. • Work closely with business SMEs, leadership, compliance, tech, design and vendors; involve them in discovery, testing and co-creation. • Share vision, learnings and progress openly; use storytelling and evidence to frame decisions. • Challenge assumptions respectfully, act as a thought partner and key opinion leader, and manage expectations without becoming a proxy • Drive alignment and decisions across in