Job Title: Global People Business Partner - Business Operations

• Location: Hyderabad, India

We are Sanofi. We are an innovative global healthcare company, driven by one purpose: we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.
Our teams across the world strive to transform the practice of medicine, turning the impossible into the possible for patients. We provide potentially life-changing treatments and the protection of life-saving vaccines to millions of people, and affordable access to our medicines in some of the world’s poorest countries.

Our Team

About Business Operations

Our ambition: Deliver best-in-class enterprise services enabling Sanofi to chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives.

Sanofi has been building the foundations of enterprise services over the past few years. With the creation of Business Operations two years ago, we have elevated our commitment to innovation and excellence and we are now taking this organization to the next level as an innovative business partner, creating value to Sanofi and modernizing the way we work.

An expert leadership team, passionate about leading high performance. 

We are building for the long term. We bring people together, simplify processes, break down barriers and rapidly cross-fertilize the best ideas across Sanofi. 

Our critical success factors
We have identified three key drivers:

1. Community - Building a vibrant team that will attract and engage talent, with four global hubs. 2.Excellence - Simplifying, standardizing and continuously improving processes to capture synergies, scale effects and productivity improvements. 3.Digitalization - Enabling transparency, data-driven decision-making support, agility and rapid innovation across Sanofi's entire value chain.

About the job

This Global People Business Partner role supporting leaders based in 16 countries will give you the opportunity to implement and co-develop people strategy for Business Operations (BO), working alongside the wider P&C teams (such as talent, rewards & performance, learning & development, culture, people excellence partners). You will bring the people agenda to life by advising, coaching, challenging, developing and influencing the leadership teams of Medical, M&S and People Services within Business Operations. Furthermore, you will coordinate and manage projects to overcome people challenges and build capabilities. 

Key responsibilities

• Act as a strategic advisor to leadership teams, challenging traditional thinking and driving organizational development initiatives

• Lead the implementation of people strategies aligned with business objectives

• Shape future leadership capabilities through innovative talent development programs and succession planning

• Influence and guide leadership on organizational design, workforce planning, and change management.

• Drive cultural transformation initiatives that support Sanofi's and Business Operation’s evolution

• Support leadership teams in identifying high-potential talent and building development plans.

• Facilitate performance conversations, coach leaders and their teams on co-design their team effectiveness journey

• Leverage Sanofi’s People & Culture Operating Model to deliver integrated people solutions that enhance organizational effectiveness

• Partner with People & Culture Centers of Excellence (CoEs) to deliver best in class employee experiences (e.g., Rewards & Performance, Learning, Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Organizational Design etc.)

About you 

Experience:

• Demonstrated track record in HR/People & Culture Business Partner positions or HR leadership roles, preferably within Global Capability Centers (GCC) or Global Business Services (GBS) organizations.

• Experience in driving strategic HR initiatives in a matrix organization, with global, multi-cultural environment is essential.

• Ability to manage data, show analytical thinking with clear communication, linking strategy & operational planning and convert strategy into local implementation plans. 

• Business acumen in Medical Affairs, Manufacturing & Supply is a plus.

Soft skills:

• The ideal candidate combines hands-on execution with strategic thinking, and is able to engage, influence P&C teams and business leaders across geographies.

• As a coach and mentor help leaders amplify their thinking, by providing constructive and objective advice, inspiration and challenge. 

Languages: Fluency in English is required to work effectively across the countries, business functions and levels. Additional languages are a plus.

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary! 

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. 

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity. 

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