General Medicines
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Job Title: Portfolio Strategy Operations & Management Lead

Location: Cambridge, MA

About the job

Organizational context

Global E.D.G.E.’s (Emerging Disruptive Growth Exploration) vision is to enable an open, democratized, person-centered, tech enabled health ecosystem that

• Place people, not companies, at the center their care, and in control of their data and participate in value creation

• Deliver integrated first- and third-party experiences enabling to improve patient outcomes and lower costs

• Connect patients and loved ones to raise the standard of care and support

In alignment with that vision, Global E.D.G.E. Portfolio Strategy & Corporate Develop (E.D.G.E. PS+CD) team is empowered to

• Portfolio Strategy | Drive, design and manage a portfolio of digital healthcare use cases across the globe

• Corporate Development | Identify, evaluate, and structure digital health investments to realize such a portfolio

Key dimensions of the role  

Sanofi’s mission is to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. Sanofi is a company that's on the rise. We're expanding in multiple directions, across borders and, most of all, in the way we think. At Sanofi, we're building a team of brilliant individuals to drive the success of a new E.D.G.E. business to transform healthcare for all. People are the most critical ingredient to our success. 

Sanofi’s E.D.G.E. Team conducts cutting-edge research in the health care space and incubates data-driven digital solutions which aim to improve patients’ health outcomes, clinicians’ experience, and reduce health care costs. We are actively incubating multiple projects to improve the lives of patients globally, and we are seeking the best and the brightest to join this journey and change healthcare for all. The E.D.G.E. Portfolio consists of multiple strategically-prioritized uses case applications, and each use case application can be characterized by the following decision dimensions: 1) geography, 2) product, 3) target users, 4) commercial or monetization model, and 5) implementation plan.

This role is positioned within the E.D.G.E. PS+CD team, and will have five mandates:

• Drive geographic decisions with Global Markets teams and Regional Commercial Leads

• Coalesce the decision dimensions for each use case application

• Develop and evangelize E.D.G.E. narrative

• Co-develop executable roadmap with Global E.D.G.E. LT and other GenMed teams and mobilize Sanofi resources to execute against the roadmap

• Support operational management (eg, P&L, forecasting) across E.D.G.E. offices

Main Responsibilities:

Global E.D.G.E. Portfolio Management Lead undertakes a critical role in bringing all decision dimensions of use case applications and managing the overarching portfolio. To do so, the role requires organized management of internal stakeholders globally, and they are listed in the responsibilities below.

Primary responsibilities include:

Collaboratively drive geographic decisions

• Coordinate and drive geographic decisions with Global Markets teams, E.D.G.E. Regional Commercial Leads

• Lead efforts to define & size opportunities to expand our global digital health ambition clearly understanding both potential agnostic and local market value contribution

Coalesce the decision dimensions into cohesive use case application

• Support the design, development, and maintenance of E.D.G.E. portfolio strategy in coordination with the Global Head of Digital Healthcare Portfolio Strategy & Corporate Dev and General Medicines E.D.G.E. leadership

• With support from the E.D.G.E. PS+CD team, coalesce all dimensions of individual use cases (ie, geography, product, commercial model and implementation model) into a cohesive and operationally-sensitive roadmap

• Clearly translate investment parameters, alongside E.D.G.E. LT, Digital, and Corporate Development Strategy Lead

Develop narrative of and evangelize E.D.G.E. use cases

• Align on prioritized use cases with Global Markets (ie, Key, Innovate-to-Grow, Foundations), Corporate Communications & Affairs, Talent, Medical, and Finance

• Co-lead E.D.G.E. narratives with GenMed Corporate Communications and Affairs Lead

• Maintain a working knowledge and be considered an internal expert related to evolving market externalities, such as competitive dynamics, market consolidations, legal/regulatory changes in the digital health sector, etc.

Build and execute against roadmap

• With Portfolio Implementation Models Lead, bring E.D.G.E. LT together to translate each use cases into an executable roadmap

• Empower Portfolio Operations Manager to mobilize optimal resources across the organization to execute against the roadmap

• Co-manage resource requirements across Global E.D.G.E., alongside E.D.G.E. LT and Corporate Development Strategy Lead

Additional responsibilities include:

• Grow into a next-gen leader in portfolio management

• Support development and alignment of Underserved Pop Strategy

• Support finance, commercial leads, and product teams in developing financial models that clearly articulate the value to Sanofi shareholders

• Diligently collect and manage resources and budget across E.D.G.E. offices

• Help triage, solve, ad hoc, implementation challenges on a global basis

• Gain deep familiarity of the healthcare systems in the chosen markets, to inform strategic choices with the Affiliates

• Support agile ways of working initiatives globally and regionally

About you

Requirements:

Domain experience

• 5+ years of experience with Digital / Virtual Healthcare Care market & dynamics
• 5+ years of experience with life sciences industry
• 5+ years professional experience in investments & / or management consulting

Functional and organizational experience

• Managed global projects in product dev, trial operations, or commercialization
• Financial management, forecasting, or investment management
• Negotiations experience
• Working in or supporting complex matrix organization
• Addressing and collaborating with diverse mix of functional and market experience

Geographic experience

• Experience collaborating with teams from multiple countries
• A keen ability to unite diverse perspectives to work toward a shared vision. Being able to work across borders and time zones.

Why Choose Us?

All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.