Accelerator Digital Product Owner (Lyon)
Lyon, France Regular Posted on Dec. 18, 2025 Closing on Feb. 02, 2026Le contenu du poste est libellé en anglais car il nécessite de nombreuses interactions avec nos filiales à l’international, l'anglais étant la langue de travail.
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Job title:Product Owner
- Location: Lyon
About the job
At Sanofi, we’re committed to transform the practice of medicine through break-through science. Within Sanofi, Manufacturing & Supply (M&S) is the bridge between Science and Patients, ensuring all patients get their dose reliably, that new medicines are launched faster to cover unmet needs and that they can be delivered affordably across the globe. At Sanofi we are convinced that Manufacturing is, and must in the future increasingly be, a competitive advantage and that digital unlocks every next step in that journey. Join our DigitalM&S Accelerator team as Product Owner and you can help make it happen.
Your job?As a Product Owner, you will be a senior leader and act as a mini-CEO for digital products, co-defining product strategy with M&S leadership, planning product roadmap, driving product delivery with delivery teams, and measuring/optimizing business impact.
Sanofi Manufacturing &Supply is the most extraordinary playground you can imagine. The world of drug development and advanced manufacturing withopportunities for real-world AI is one of the most fascinating places to be in digital today and biomanufacturing puts an additional twist of challenge working with biological living processes and saving people’s lives.
You will deliver capabilities to our 40 factories spread across five continents. You will work with real-time IOT data from hundreds of manufacturing lines with leading edge production and laboratory equipment. You will help secure one of the strongest new treatment pipelines in the biopharma industry. And you will serve thousands of extraordinary scientists, process engineers, manufacturing engineers, manufacturing operators and quality experts who are convinced that digital is the path to become a best-in-class organization.
We have establishedthe Digital M&S Accelerator as a dedicated agile organization to deliver High Value Digital Products focused primarily on accelerating launches and creating best in class digitalized factories we call Lighthouses. Theambitionis first to secure the pipeline of new treatment launches, successfully launching yearly 3 to 5 new blockbuster medicines(peak yearly revenue of 1 billion euros) where delays have multi-million euros impact and second to deliver manufacturing performance driving cost of goods reduction ofmore than 500 million euros over the next five years.
We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?
About Growing with us
In this role you will own and deliver new innovative Digital Products. You will be empowered to build digital capabilities that disrupt current manufacturing and new medicine launch practices. You will be expected not just to enable but to modernize, automate or eliminate activities not creating value by leveraging digital, data and AI technologies:
- Own products from a "What", "Why" and “Outcome” perspective
- Define, create, and communicate products roadmap aligned with business priorities and supported by business cases, shopfloor research and competitive analysis
- Manage product delivery and documentation, ensuring requirements collection, process and solution documentation, and solution development meet defined milestones
- Deliver products that are easy to adopt and use, contribute to roll-out across factories or launch teams and constantly monitor and improve usage and user satisfaction
- Manage backlog prioritization of work and be accountable for delivering incremental value every sprint while ensuring enough focus is put on experimenting breakthrough ideas
- Work with Scrum Master and delivery team daily, clarifying context and expectations, addressing ambiguities, being available to solve issues
- Inspire the team, raise the ambition and bring a unique vision and perspective for what is possible
About you
Experience:
- Product management or building complex digital solutions, preferably with experience in manufacturing or industrial development
- Experience in a biopharma or biotech company is a strong plus
- Experience with Agile and Digital transformation in complex, international environments
Soft skills:
- Strong drive and ability to build & share product vision
- Excellent communication & presenting skills, including with executive stakeholders
- Proven business sense, ability to take decisions, think strategically and partner with business/other teams
- Structured, organized, and capable of managing multiple topics and priorities
- Track-record of problem-solving & overcoming roadblocks in a complex environment
- Strong cross-functional leadership & influencing skills
- Curiosity, creativity, sense of detail, first principles and “get things done” mindset
Technical skills:
- Solid knowledge of Lean or Agile practices, User Experience& Application Design
Education:
- Master’s degree in computer science or equivalent scientific field, with 5+ years of experience in product management, preferably in healthcare or biotech
Why choose us?
We provide a highly open and collaborative environment, with an opportunity to work with a world class team. You will be able to:
- Learn what it takes to make a service with a truly global reach
- Be part of an organization that values diversity, inclusion, and the richness of different backgrounds and experiences
- Engage in meaningful work that combines the challenges of pharma, manufacturing,environmental matters and technical fields, offering abundant opportunities for professional growth and impact
- Contribute to a company that is not only a leader in healthcare but also a pioneer in digital transformation, shaping the future of global health
PursueProgress. Discover Extraordinary.
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. You can be one of those people. Chasing change, embracing new ideas and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Let’s pursue progress. And let’s discover extraordinary together.
At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.
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Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.
Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science - where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what’s never-been-done-before. You’ll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people’s lives? Let’s Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary – together.
At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
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