Job title: Commercialization Academy Learning Experience Lead
Location: France, US, Flexibility for other locations will be assessed

30 % of travel expected

About the Job

We are an innovative global healthcare company, committed to transforming the lives of people with immune challenges, rare diseases and blood disorders, cancers, and neurological disorders. From R&D to sales, our talented teams work together, revolutionizing treatment, continually improving products, understanding unmet needs, and connecting communities. We chase the miracles of science every single day, pursuing progress to make a real impact on millions of patients around the world.

Sanofi has currently the best and more robust pipeline of R&D and consequent new launches of our history. As new phase of Play-To-Win strategy, funding this pipeline and new launches is key to materialize the miracles of the science to improve people lives. Thus, as we enter into the next phase, modernization of Sanofi is required as per the recent announcements on DRIVE, and in this respect, we are in the beginning stages of organizing the Go-to-Market Capabilities (GTMC) team at global level.

• Establishing Best in Class Launch capabilities to win in the B12 launches, while ensuring excellence in execution in Medico-Marketing fundamentals.
  
• Centralization of Go-to-Market excellence and operational tasks across GBUs.
  
• Standardizing best in class capabilities with strengthened global support while verticalization of reporting within GTMC from local to global.
  
• Defining clear ways of working and bringing clarity on interfaces with GBUs, Digital, and executional support on commercial operations from Sanofi hubs to optimize process excellence and efficiency.
  

• Ensure a best-in-class E2E launch and commercialization excellence from an insight driven marketing to a cross-functional integrated brand planning process omnichannel by design, securing continuous iteration and consistency across-brands and GBUs.
  
• Identify users' requirements to ensure high engagement of the medical and marketing teams and continuously enhance the learning experience
  
• Provide thought leadership regarding Modern Marketing, new commercial models, new ways of working and new learning experiences in Pharma and beyond, while seeking for continuous external benchmarking for iterative improvement.
  
• Seek to enhance the learning experience trough cutting-edge technology and new learning approaches to drive engagement, while ensuring content-channels quality
  
• Co-design the new blueprint and scope of the Commercialization Academy x-GBU.
  
• Contribute to identify capability gaps along the life cycle of the brand teams from pre-launch to post launch and establish a competencies deployment roadmap for execution of new BIC (best in class) capabilities (such as patient experience journeys, HCP journeys informed by insights and bridging towards brand planning, BIC market development and shaping).
  
• Contribute to build archetype-based immersive journeys through unified x-GBU/x-market interactive platform with mixed approach (digital and face to face) embedding new ways of learning: self-paced "digital" training combined with formal learning "bootcamps" based on cases, on-the-job coaching, gamification, ...
  
• Set the training content within the curriculums to be compelling and tailored to the different learning channels based in archetypes and in the users' requirements
  
• Partner with digital to develop digital platforms and seek for technology best in class partners to enhance the user experience.
  
• Define and codify leading practices into fundamentals to be delivered through the academy towards best-in-class capabilities.
  
• Communicate the value of continuous learning and skill development: foster a positive learning culture and encourage a growth mindset and a willingness to learn and adapt.
  
• Continuously assess the effectiveness of the learning journeys implementation, collect feedback from team members and measure outcomes to ensure wide adoption and high satisfaction rates
  
• Be a renowned and credible 'go-to' expert at all levels, coaching and sharing knowledge when and where required.
  
• Ensure strong collaboration, co-creation and strategic alignment with Business partners from pre-launch, to launch and in-market brands, Global and local.
  

• You will be a member of the LEX/MEX Team.
  
• You will foster strategic alignment and close collaboration between cross-functional teams (R&D, LRR, M&S, Marketing, Medical, GTMC, Corporate affairs, Digital, Strategy, Hub...) and drive structured ways of working between teams to provide maximum value and efficiency to business teams.
  
• You will ensure promote the setting up agile and effective teams
  
• You will contribute to establish standards across GBUs, brands and countries to deliver the new LEX and Commercialization Excellence frameworks as true partner in enabling business growth.
  
• You will work closely with the Launch Excellence teams and the Commercialization Excellence teams to ensure E2E business continuity.
  

• 10+ years in cross functional leadership of Commercial Operations, marketing and/or medical expertise
  
• 1 + years of global experience
  
• 2+ years of Local Country experience
  
• 10+ years working in cross functional teams
  
• In-depth understanding of pharmaceutical industry
  
• Experienced in leading by influence and drive in matrix driven project teams/organizations.
  
• Agile mindset and practice: ensure the correct pace of the acceleration being outcome goal oriented.
  
• Ability to leverage networks and undertake stakeholder management
  
• Ability to lead change while achieving business goals & objectives, act for change - Challenge the status quo. Be persistent and resilient.
  
• Preferential: previous working experience setting-up and managing learning programs: experience working in a country level
  

• Commercialization expertise (commercial and/or medical)
  
• Strategic analysis and planning, project management, excellent English language knowledge and skills (written and oral), IT knowledge and skills, proven communication, presentation, persuasion, skills ability to work and influence cross-functionally.
  

• Strategic Thinking: Makes decisions by analysing current and future scenarios. Disrupts the status quo with innovation, develops new approaches in order to deliver results while remaining pragmatic and focused on priorities.
  
• People Leadership: Engages and leverages everyone's strengths, ensures active communication; Demonstrates a high-level drive, passion and ambition for optimal result. Sets high standards and Expectations. Shares authority and responsibility.
  
• Relationship and Influence: Inspires trust through empathy and authenticity. Empowers and recognizes others to create powerful and trusted relationships while challenging the status quo. Ability to leverage networks, passion to develop people, coach & give feedback. Effective stakeholder management.
  
• Passion for transformation and coaching: a strong desire and curiosity to continuously learn and improve self and others. Passionate about helping commercialization teams to do their 'day jobs' better and committed to improving business performance. Ability to lead change while achieving business goals & objectives, act for change - Challenge the status quo. Be persistent and resilient.
  
• Personal Characteristics: Accountability, innovation, creativity, initiative, stress management, fast learner, result orientation, ability to work on one's own continuous improvement; active listening skills, co-creating with the different teams, GBUs and with key geographies.
  

• 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.