Director, US Advanced Analytics - GenMeds and Vaccines

Job Title: Director, US Advanced Analytics - General Medicines and Vaccines

Location: Morristown (preferred) or Cambridge

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.

At Sanofi, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We believe our cutting-edge science and manufacturing, fueled by data and digital technologies, have the potential to transform the practice of medicine, turning the impossible into possible for millions of people.

Currently, Sanofi has the most robust pipeline and forthcoming product launches in the company’s history. As the next phase of our Play-To-Win strategy, Sanofi must appropriately support this pipeline to materialize our vision of delivering scientific miracles to patients worldwide. Thus, modernizing the Sanofi operational structure is also required. In line with this, project DRIVE is shepherding change throughout the organization and created the development of the Go-to-Market Capabilities (GTMC) team within the company.

The new GTMC organization is charged with delivering best-in-class capabilities to bring speed and increased value to commercial operations. It will refine priorities across products, markets, and the pipeline through dynamic resources allocation and efficiencies. Silos that existed between business units as well as duplicative and overlapping resources will be replaced with standardized processes and tools. Operating with a One Sanofi mindset and entrepreneurial spirit, GTMC will accelerate and improve key capabilities to do more with less and facilitate the best-informed strategic decision making across the organization.

The GTMC Organization Aims To

• Centralize Go-to-Market operational tasks across GBUs
• Standardize best in class capabilities, strengthen global support, and implement a better vertical reporting structure within GTMC from local to global
• Define ways of working, bringing clarity on the interactions across GBUs, Digital, and Commercial executional support teams from Sanofi hubs to optimize process excellence and efficiency

The Director, US Advanced Analytics - General Medicines & Vaccines will build and lead a team of onshore and/or offshore analysts that uses predictive analytics, including use of AI / ML models, to assess and improve promotional effectiveness across Sanofi's General Medicines and Vaccines Business Units. As a member of the Insights and Analytics (I&A) team, this individual will be an integral strategic partner to Sanofi Commercial leadership, leading the development & application of cutting-edge analytical capabilities to achieve the full potential of Sanofi’s expanding portfolio.

This position will report to the Sr Director, US Advanced Analytics and will be based in Morristown, NJ (preferred) OR Cambridge, MA.

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.

About You

Main Responsibilities:

• Retain & develop high-quality talent to build a best-in-class Advanced Analytics team.
• Support hiring and development of onshore and/or offshore Advanced Analytics team members, fostering positive team culture that rewards curiosity, collaboration, and inclusion.
• Lead Hub team day to day on projects in a matrix management structure
• Coordinate with larger Advanced Analytics team & Commercial leadership to prioritize requests and balance team workload.
• Manage team budgets and relationships with external vendors to accomplish key Advanced Analytics & Commercial goals.
• Ensure the team is aware of / compliant with relevant policies and SOPs.
• Act as TA (Therapeutic Area) dedicated Advanced Analytics lead and advisor on AI/ML model builds including marketing mix modeling, multi-touch attribution, next best action and cross-functional orchestration engines – ensuring consistency with other TA analytics work. Apply data science techniques, such as machine learning, statistical modeling, and artificial intelligence to unlock insights & new strategies.
• Lead model development of Patient Identification models to enhance HCP targeting & segmentation as well as Next Best Action applications.
• Lead model development of Patient Support Services models – e.g. drivers analyses and risk identification for non-conversion and discontinuation to inform PSS strategy across FRMs, Case Managers and Specialty Pharmacies
• Partner with Brand Analytics leads to leverage outputs of AI/ML models such as patient prediction, HCP clustering, and promotional sensitivity models to enhance salesforce targe