Director, Strategic Projects

Job title : Director, Strategic Projects • Location: Morristown, NJ   About the Job • From the vantage point of North America (NA) Vaccines Business Unit, bring together the functions, capabilities, and offerings from GTMC, Digital and external partners to enable technology and automations clearly linking them to tangible Business Unit benefits and superior customer experience. • Collaborate and co-create solutions that provide immediate and tangible benefits to various functions of NA Vaccines Commercial business unit. • Lead and modernize commercial business processes and solutions for efficiency and efficacy. • Transversally understand the impact of information and process flows to strike a balance between economies-of-scale-seeking One-Sanofi mindset and the uniqueness demanded by NA Vaccines business unit. • Lead innovation life cycles for speed to insights and business agility. • The position will report into the Sr. Director of Technology Modernization and will be part of the Business and Technology Modernization organization within Vaccines North America Business Unit. Join the team protecting half a billion lives every year with next-gen science, mRNA innovation, and AI driven breakthroughs. In Vaccines, you’ll help advance prevention on a global scale - and shape the future of immunization.    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   Strategic Projects & Planning • Conduct benchmarking, external research on commercial technologies, digital solutions, best practices used within and across industry with similar business models as health care eco-system evolves. • Identify, incubate, and pilot innovation projects that can provide tangible benefit on one or more of the four modernization pillars:  Commercial Effectiveness, Customer Experience, Insights Generation and One Sanofi Approach. • Partner with US commercial teams to identify new digital solution needs, capabilities, and process improvements for commercial effectiveness and positive customer experience. • Develop, refine, and apply framework to prioritize initiatives based on business value and strategic alignment. • Co-own a roadmap for projects and technology solutions for the US commercial organization partnering with Digital for pull through. • Lead annual cycle of strategic planning for commercial technology and data solution needs and requests   Communication & Influencing • Develop dashboards and presentations to stakeholders and senior leaders on the US team’s modernization projects • Forster partnerships with internal stake holders (Digital, Go to Market Capability, Center of Excellences) by communicating the Commercial team’s business priorities • Support Change Management across the commercial organization, ensuring successful adoption of new tools, processes, and ways of working.   KPI/Metrics Tracking • Establish metrics and KPIs to measure the impact of innovation initiatives on business performance   About You •  5+ years of work experience at a Pharma, diagnostics, or a digital health company in a commercial or business operations function. • At least implementation of one digital product in a product management capacity – from concept to measurable business outcomes • Good understanding of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) and basic database querying and coding knowledge using SQL (Structured Query Language). • 3+ years of work experience at a top tier manageme