Reference No. R2773263
Position Title: Digital Strategy Lead
Department: Digital Strategy
Duration: Fixed-Term Contract End Date: January 1, 2027
Location: Toronto, Ontario
About the Job
At Sanofi, we’re committed to providing the next-gen healthcare that patients and customers need. It’s about harnessing data insights and leveraging AI responsibly to search deeper and solve sooner than ever before. Join our Digital Strategy Team as Digital Strategy Lead and you can help make it happen. Your job?
The Digital Strategy Lead is pivotal in delivering projects, programs, and capabilities to support our Global Digital Strategy and Operations function. This role focuses on managing and delivering initiatives across various domains, including strategic plan development, operating model implementation, and innovative project execution within the Digital and Business organizations.
We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?
Main Responsibilities
Develop and Implement Strategic Plans: Facilitate, manage, and implement components of the Digital strategic plan.
Program and Project Management: Oversee the development and execution of the Digital Strategy and Roadmap, monitor progress, and manage related KPIs. Work with key stakeholders to ensure delivery and value realization.
Innovation Management: Drive innovation funnel management and support MVP development and scalability.
Consulting and Realignment: Lead pods acting as in-house consulting capabilities, responsible for realignment and support of major programs.
Strategic Documentation: Develop strategic documents and articulate the value of digital assets and tools created to support operations and innovation.
Collaboration and Alignment: Collaborate with global Digital leaders across R&D, M&S, and Commercial to ensure alignment and milestone-based program delivery.
Industry Insights: Provide an outside-in perspective on industry evolution through AI, new business models, and partnerships.
High-Priority Program Delivery: Accelerate the delivery of high-priority programs supporting new drug launches.
Roadmap and Risk Management: Develop and manage roadmaps, milestones, and risks associated with various programs and projects.
Team Development: Coach and support team development goals and skills.
Capability Management: Manage and mature capabilities within the Digital Strategy and Digital Strategic Program functions.
Facilitation and Coordination: Coordinate, plan, and facilitate workshops, presentations, and discussions to progress projects.
Risk and Issue Management: Escalate risks and issues to appropriate governance bodies.
People Strategy Development: Develop a people strategy to ensure effective organizational growth.
Meeting Preparation: Prepare and coordinate briefing materials for key meetings.
About You
Key Qualifications and Competencies
Program Management Expertise: Demonstrated experience in managing complex programs and projects.
Strategic Thinking: Ability to navigate complex topics and communicate them effectively for executive decision-making.
Outcome-Focused: Emphasis on delivering outcomes that drive the digital organization towards value targets.
Product Management Skills: Experience in product management and leading agile teams.
Strategic Partnerships: Ability to manage strategic partnerships internally and externally.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Strong team player with excellent problem-solving, analytical, and strategic capabilities.
Autonomous Work: Ability to work autonomously with limited guidelines.
Effective Communication: Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Bachelor’s degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) field.
Desired Traits
Must have 5-8 years of working experience in a large pharma / life sciences / medtech, large multi-national, technology / data and AI consulting or relevant.
Strategic Planner and Project Manager: Skilled in strategic planning and project management.
Results-Driven: Focused on achieving results with PMO skills.
Data Storyteller: Ability to convey data insights effectively.
Emotional Intelligence: High emotional intelligence and self-driven.
Proactive and Inquisitive: Proactive in voicing different perspectives and eager to learn.
Multi-Tasker: Capable of managing multiple tasks simultaneously.
Active Listener: Strong listening skills with resistance to stress.
Attention to Detail: Rigor and attention to detail.
Flexibility: High work capacity and flexibility.
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
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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Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But 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. So, let’s be those people.
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