R&D Data Office Program Manager

Company: Sanofi
Location: Bridgewater
Posted on: March 19, 2023

Job Description:

Our Team

Join us on our journey in establishing a cross-R&D Data Office (RDDO) at Sanofi. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated individual to enter the office in the growth phase and help shape the organization's impact to R&D. Our vision is to accelerate data driven R&D insights and decision-making for drug discovery and development. We're doing this through enabling speedy, democratized, and compliant access to quality R&D data, and perpetuating a data-driven culture. Our team is responsible for the strategy, governance, and management of Sanofi's R&D data. We serve as advisors, leaders, and educators to the business, data professionals and indeed all colleagues across the R&D value chain.

The R&D Data Office Program Manager is an essential role in coordinating and monitoring various programs required to manage the R&D Data Office roadmap, enable the R&D Data Strategy, and support ongoing communications to partners and executive leadership.

Your role includes understanding the R&D Data Strategy, coordinating and managing demand across initiatives that drive data governance and management across R&D, championing RDDO work amongst the R&D organization, providing oversight for selected program areas, and supporting delivery of quality work.

Main responsibilities

• Understand and support implementation of the R&D Data Strategy across R&D
• Develop and plan individual and cross program plans for initiatives that deliver the ambition of the R&D data strategy
• Oversee, and coordinate timelines across R&D Data Office initiatives within the RDDO and with related/dependent initiatives across the enterprise
• Manage demand and provide advice on financial management for priority R&D Data Office initiatives; support integration with Finance, Procurement, and other corporate functions
• Monitor R&D Data Office initiative objectives, particularly as they develop R&D Data Office Capabilities (e.g., Data Governance, Data Management etc) and raise gaps in operating model(e.g., people, process, technology etc)
• Coordinate preparatory work and briefing materials for key meetings
• Support and create strategic documents articulating the value of R&D Data Office activities
• Support and create training modules and communications to help with R&D data culture and literacy
• Support the R&D Data Office agenda in line with company strategic priorities through monitoring of progress and related KPIs and work with key stakeholders to support delivery About you
  • Experience: 7+ years of relevant experience
  • Technical skills:
    • Knowledge of drug discovery and development information and processes
    • Strong familiarity with data analytics, data capabilities, and cross-industry data standards
    • Ability to plan and forecast across programs and initiatives
    • Ability to navigate, escalate, and manage risks
    • Budgeting and financial management (OpEx, CapEx etc.)
    • Demonstrated skillset in strategy and transformation / implementation of large-scale programs
    • Understanding of back-end and front-end technologies and experience implementing highly functional solutions that can scale
    • Storyteller with the ability to translate complex technical jargon and concepts into something simple, accurate, and easy to understand
    • Expert communication skills: experience with change management and training modules is a plus
    • Functional skills:
      • Change agent with combination of business, technology, and diplomatic skills
      • Ability to work cross-functionally and manage strategic partnerships internally and externally
      • Ability to deal with ambiguous situations work autonomously with limited guidelines
      • Excellent communication skills and familiarity with use of social media in enterprise
      • Strong attention to detail, quality, time management
      • Excellent written/oral skills
      • Interpersonal skills, team player
      • Emotional Intelligence
      • Self-driven, Results-oriented
      • Ability to proactively voice different perspectives
      • Multi-Tasker, Flexibility, Agility
      • Eagerness to learn, inquisitive
      • Active listener
      • Resistance to stress
      • Education: Bachelors or Masters in Science, Business, Engineering, or Computer Science
      • Languages: English At Sanofi R&D North America, we deliver meaningful solutions for patients. We transform science into breakthrough, best-in-class and first-in-class medicines and vaccines. We believe in creating a diverse and inclusive workforce - and workplace - which brings together the collective brainpower of over 2,000 colleagues and provides you with an exciting place to grow and develop. We set the bar high, and we deliver. Join us and together we will build on our trusted legacy of breakthroughs for society.
        
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        As a healthcare company and a vaccine manufacturer, Sanofi has an important responsibility to protect individual and public health. All US based roles require individuals to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as part of your job responsibilities.
        
        According to the CDC, an individual is considered to be "fully vaccinated" fourteen (14) days after receiving (a) the second dose of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine, or (b) the single dose of the J&J vaccine. Fully vaccinated, for new Sanofi employees, is to be fully vaccinated 14 DAYS PRIOR TO START DATE.
        
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