Product Line Manager, Digital M&S AI Solutions

• Location: Barcelona

About Sanofi

We are an AI- enabled, R&D driven biopharma firm, chasing the miracles of science to improve people's lives. We are an innovative global healthcare company, driven by one purpose: we work passionately every day to transform the practice of medicine by bringing life-changing treatments and life-enhancing support to people worldwide.

The Team

At Sanofi Digital, we are driving sustainable business impact through an agile, AI-enabled, and globally connected workforce. As part of our Enterprise Data Strategy, we are enhancing our end-to-end data pipeline to provide a standardized, resilient, and sustainable data environment. Our mission to partner across the Sanofi value chain to deliver AI-ready data and at-scale AI products that transform our business.

Digital Manufacturing & Supply (M&S) plays a crucial role in this mission, by modernizing our global M&S network with Digital core systems, leveraging cutting-edge technologies to automate and augment processes, and capture millions of data points in our M&S network to leverage in AI solutions built to deliver impact. Specifically, the Digital M&S Data & AI team is an integral part of the Digital M&S with the mission to develop, deliver and maintain high impact Data and AI products using a platform based on Sanofi’s standard technologies.

Who you are

First and foremost, you are a builder with a proven track record of building and releasing data/AI centric software products that drive real business value. You have a distinct curiosity for digging deep into problems, for finding out the why and the how behind business processes, and for getting to the root issues driving the needs. You are comfortable with both taking product ideas from zero to 1, or in executing the backlog of mature products in a large organizational setting.

You have first-hand experience in directly managing pods including cross-functional team members such as data scientists, data engineers, developers, scrum masters, and business analysts to build and deliver exceptional data products. You have deep (ideally hands-on) knowledge of latest Digital and AI technologies, and good ideas for how make the best use of them in solving real business problems

You are comfortable guiding technical implementation decisions drawing from various perspectives, benefits, dependencies and engineering commitments to create a comprehensive roadmap. You enjoy defining and guiding implementation of KPIs to ensure design and delivery of extraordinary applications. You are comfortable leading product pods and managing career development for product owners and scrum masters.

Job Highlights

• Own the Why, What and When of the Data/AI products: responsible for problem framing, product vision and roadmap in alignment with broader organization goals.

• Zero to one product builds: Drive discovery discussions with stakeholders with product owners in the team, investigate the true drivers behind stated product requirements, identify high level minimum requirements for viable solution and backlog beyond.

• Develop analysis for build vs. buy fits for problem statements faced. Explore the market for potential off-the-shelf solutions when applicable.

• Manage activities across multiple product pods through line management of deployed Product Owners, Scrum Masters and Business Data Analysts.

• Manage stakeholders in the business on product expectations, vision and plan delivery, value realization discussions.

• Help develop business cases for AI investment, connect business requirements to technology choices and analytical methods required.

• Lead thinking on user experience – internal voice of the user in the pod (product team), supported by UX/CX teams.

• Own the Digital M&S AI product portfolio and its continuous refinement and prioritization.

• Negotiate Yes/No with the business and with the delivery team; empowered to make decisions related to product features, backlog prioritization, release planning.

• Coach product owners in the team to develop strong and precise user stories, define low fidelity designs, develop manageable product plans, and deliver products beyond user expectations.

• Drive tracking of impact generated in the business and incorporate user feedback to ensure continuous value delivery.

• Ensure adherence to Sanofi architecture standards and compliance to applicable quality, regulatory (Data Privacy, GxP, SOX, etc.) and cybersecurity requirements.

• Provide consistent updates to leadership and executives, making communication easy and clear regarding product issues and decisions to be made.

• Lead business-critical operational performance indicators and technical metrics.

• People management: manage career development for a global group of Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Business Data Analysts through a growth minded feedback culture.

Key Functional Requirements & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business or a related field. Advanced degree preferred.

• 7+ years of demonstrated experience in building, releasing (into the world or organizations), improving (and if applicable retiring / exiting) software products. Real examples of real products.

• Strong experience in working with data and AI technologies, including cloud data platforms, LLM services, data science workbenches, web app frameworks.

• Excellent communication skills – able to influence team and stakeholders, but also tell a fact-based story that drives actions (leveraging written, slide, verbal mediums).

• Curiosity, asking the “Why” questions from the business to understand the challenges better, and the “How” questions from the development teams to pressure test techniques and timelines, to create a better vision of what the final product should be.

• Demonstrated experience with Agile practices and expectations, ability to scope minimum viable solution features, groom backlogs with value mindset, coach teams to fail fast.

• Creativity to go beyond current processes to deliver the best solution for a problem or opportunity, helping drive thinking on business process reimagination.

• Experience managing groups global multi-department stakeholders: clarifying requirements, resolving conflicts, defining roadmaps and driving progress.

• Experience in coaching and managing direct reports through their career development.

• Previous experience as a hands-on programmer (e.g. in data engineering, data science, s/w engineering, solution architecture) preferred.

• Domain expertise in Manufacturing and Supply Chain a bonus.

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