Transformation Lead

Job Title : Strategy Implementation and Corporate Transformation Lead

Location: Paris, France

About the job

As Strategy Implementation and Corporate Transformation Lead within our Corporate Transformation team, you'll oversee the implementation of Sanofi’s Strategy and the Modernization of the company. You will play a pivotal role in guiding the organization through a period of significant change, ensuring that it achieves its intended outcomes while keeping alignment with the One Sanofi Strategy, keeping consistency across the organization, minimizing business disruption and maximizing employee engagement and satisfaction. You will report to the Head of Corporate Transformation. Ready to get started?

Ready to push the limits of what's possible? Join Sanofi in one of our corporate functions and you can play a vital part in the performance of our entire business while helping to make an impact on millions around the world. Drive Progress from within by helping simplify, scale, and modernize how a global biopharma business delivers smarter, faster, and more sustainably. Here, you'll support teams across science, medicine, and operations by building better systems, shaping bold strategies, and enabling innovation at speed.

About Sanofi

We're an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people's lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives.

Main responsibilities

• Work closely with senior leadership to outline the next wave of initiatives required to achieve the business strategy and objectives as per EXCOM decisions.
• Oversee main Company stretegic initiatives and provide visibility to senior leadership
• Rely on data, analytics and strategic thinking to identify needs for further cross functional alignment or identify further needs for modernization. Structure approach and initiatives to be proposed to Senior leadership.
• Collaborate with various departments and teams across Sanofi to ensure that initiatives are integrated into all aspects of the business.
• Animate networks of stakeholders to ensure consistency of Modernization and Transformation across the value chain and secure smooth deployment of the miscellaneous initiatives.
• Build strong relationships with senior leaders, key stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to ensure their active involvement and endorsement of the strategic initiatives.
• Enhance the organization’s transformation capabilities and standards.
• Provide effective communication, both upward to senior leadership and downward.

About you

Required Education:

• Master's degree in Business Administration, Operations Management, Sciences, Strategy, or related field

Required Experience:

• Minimum10 years of relevant experience  and proven track record in leadership roles and in leading strategic initiatives and transformation projects
• Experience in management consulting preferred
• Experience in pharmaceutical/healthcare industry preferred

Key Skills & Qualifications:

• Strong analytical, problem-solving and strategic thinking capabilities with the ability to navigate complex business challenges and identify and structure innovative solutions
• Exceptional leadership skills, with the ability to influence and inspire cross-functional teams in a matrixed and international environment.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Strong business acumen with a deep understanding of industry trends, emerging technologies, and competitive landscapes.
• Ability to work in fast-paced, evolving environments.

Languages:

• Fluent in English (written and spoken)
• French language skills are a plus

Why choose us?

• Make your work count by supporting a company that brings life-changing treatments to millions — and is committed to doing right by patients, communities, and the planet.

• Drive progress from within by helping simplify, scale, and modernize how a global biopharma business delivers smarter, faster, and more sustainably.

• Advance your career through stretch roles, cross-functional moves, and development opportunities designed to match your ambition.

• Thrive in inclusive, high-performing teams where every role matters and every voice helps shape what's next.

• Play a central role in shaping Sanofi's future — working at the heart of the company's most strategic and visible transformation programs.

• Collaborate directly with senior leadership and cross-functional teams across the globe, building a network that spans the entire organization.

• Make a tangible impact on how one of the world's leading biopharma companies evolves, modernizes, and delivers on its mission for patients.

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.