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R&D EGDS Hub Head

Madrid, Spain
Barcelona, Spain
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Bring your curiosity to a team where deep immunoscience meets cutting-edge innovation. Across oncology, rare diseases, neurology, and vaccines, you’ll work at the intersection of lab science and AI-powered discovery — all while collaborating across boundaries to turn breakthrough ideas into real-world impact. Whether you want to deepen your scientific expertise or grow as a leader, you’ll find the opportunity here.

Job title: R&D EGDS Hub Head

  • Location: Barcelona


About job

Our Hubs are a crucial part of how we innovate, improving performance across every Sanofi department and providing a springboard for the amazing work we do. Build a career here and you can be part of transforming our business while helping to change millions of lives. Ready?

As a Statistics Team Leader within our R&D Statistics & Programming team in Barcelona, you will report directly to the Head of R&D Statistics & Programming. You will provide leadership, guidance, and strategic input as a team manager and lead statistician on one or more project teams, accountable for all statistical aspects of assigned projects.

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?

Responsibilities:

  • Manage a team of statistics and programming team leaders, principal and senior statisticians. Define team members’ priorities, conduct performance reviews, and identify development areas. Responsible for appropriate resource planning and allocation. Promote teamwork, quality, operational efficiency, and innovation. Create a productive work environment and ensure team compliance with SOPs and departmental standards
  • Provide statistical leadership and direct statistical support for assigned projects. Accountable for statistical aspects of early or late clinical development, medical affairs, and/or translational medicine plans, studies, and submission activities (when applicable), ensuring quality, relevance to external stakeholders (e.g. regulatory authorities, medical journals), and scientific validity
  • Ensure productive collaboration with other functions in project teams, with other statistics project leaders, and in communication with senior leadership
  • Represent statistics in regulatory meetings
  • Represent statistics by participating in and leading key cross-functional initiatives
  • Manage recruitment, onboarding, and development plans for your direct team
  • Define training plans and coordinate continuous training for junior staff in alignment with TA Heads

About you

Experience:

  • PhD/MS in Statistics or a related discipline with at least 10 years of pharmaceutical industry experience in managing projects and 5 years of experience in people management
  • Proven successful experience in clinical development including complex and large clinical programs and/or post-marketing activities such as submissions and interactions with regulatory agencies or other external stakeholders
  • Broad experience in various relevant therapeutic areas is desired

Soft and technical skills:

  • Strong project management, problem-solving, interpersonal, and communication skills
  • Broad knowledge of pharmaceutical clinical development and regulatory requirements
  • Excellent understanding of advanced statistical concepts and techniques
  • Excellent R/SAS programming skills

Education:

  • PhD/MS in Statistics or a related discipline

Languages:

  • Excellent oral and written English skills

Why choose us?

  • Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team
  • Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career
  • Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact
  • Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs
  • Build, develop and manage a diversified statistics team cover multiple TAs and and clinical phases
  • Help develop the strategy of Spain for Global, and support Hub set up
  • Opportunity to partner with RWE & several quantitative sciences teams to maximize the potential of diverse data sets & methods on decision-making
  • Opportunity to apply most advanced AI/ML methodologies to accelerate clinical development and operations
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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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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.

Watch 'One day at Sanofi' and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion initiatives at sanofi.com

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