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Job title: Accelerator - Data Science Lead

• Location: Paris
• Hybrid: 60% office based, 40% remote
• Permanent, Fulltime

About you

At Sanofi, we’re committed to providing the next-gen healthcare that patients and customers need. It’s about harnessing data insights and leveraging AI responsibly to search deeper and solve sooner than ever before. Join our Accelerator Commercial Team as a Digital Lead Data Scientist and you can help make it happen. Your job? Challenging the status quo to ensure the development and impact of Sanofi's AI solutions for the patients of tomorrow. Lead the deployment of AI/ML solutions applying state-of-the art algorithms with technically robust lifecycle management.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. Digital & Data is at the heart of Sanofi: our ambition is to be the leading digital healthcare platform to develop & deliver medicine faster, enable healthcare professionals to improve treatments and help patients improve their health. Ready to get started?

Remote working: 2 days remote working, 3 days on site

Main responsibilities:

• Participate to definition and refinement of the Data Science strategy to accelerate Sanofi's digital products, with a focus on understanding patient and HCP journeys to tailor interventions that maximize benefit
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders to evaluate and build relationships to acquire, define and access data assets
• Lead a team of data scientist and data analyst
• Use data analysis, visualization, storytelling, and data technologies to scope, define and deliver AI-based data products to accelerate and optimize commercial
• Understanding and effectively work with a wide variety of unstructured and structured data sources, such as omnichannel performance data, financial, omics, wearable device data, voice recordings, imaging data, electronic health records, social media postings or operational data.
• Generate high-impact work products including interactive visualizations, presentations, publications, web applications, APIs, and predictive algorithms that drive business value
• Build and deploy production-ready models using state-of-the-art machine learning technologies, highly optimized code, and robust MLOps practices
• Create scalable algorithms, simulations, and performance evaluation frameworks that meet enterprise standards
• Drive innovation through experimentation, proof-of-concepts (POCs), and continuous exploration of emerging technologies ethical AI practices and maintain regulatory compliance across all AI initiatives, embedding responsible AI principles into the development lifecycle
• Drive data governance through the improvement of existing sanofi frameworks and ensure team apply the best practices in partnership with the business stakeholders

Experience:

• Experience developing deployable code and deploying models in product-focused development under an agile environment.
• Excellent leadership, management and articulation of Data Science team
• Experience in a healthcare company is a strong plus

Soft skills:

• Experience working with multiple teams to drive alignment and results
• Excellent business analysis, data visualization and data storytelling skills
• Experience working in an agile environment

Technical skills:

• Expertise with core data science languages (such as Python, R, Scala), and familiarity with different database systems (e.g. SQL, NoSQL)
• Expertise with sensitive data in critical environments (healthcare, defense,...)
• Expertise within most of the following areas: supervised learning, unsupervised learning, deep learning, LLMs, reinforcement learning, federated learning, time series forecasting, Bayesian statistics, optimization
• Comfortable working in cloud and high-performance computing environments (e.g. AWS, GCP, NVIDIA, Apache Spark)
• Hands-on AI/ML modeling experience of complex datasets combined with strong understanding of theoretical foundations of AI/ML (CI/CD, Orchestration)
• Experience of Visualisation (Power BI, Plotly, Streamlit or similar)
• Experience with various enterprise-level Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
• Experience with database mining, big data, and large-scale virtual screening using Bayesian Optimization or Gaussian Processes is desired
• Good knowledge of AI regulations

Education/Experience :

• Master's Degree in mathematics, computer science, engineering, physics, statistics, data science, computational sciences or a related quantitative discipline OR PhD + 3 years of with relevant work & domain experience
• At least 8 years' experience in Data science and proven track record of leading a data science team

Languages:

• English mandatory, French

Why choose us?

• We provide a highly collaborative environment, with an opportunity to work with a world class team
• 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
• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team
• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally
• 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 and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave
• Play an instrumental part in creating best practice within our manufacturing facility

PursueProgress. 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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