Reference No. R2764698

Position Title: Director, Insights and Analytics Canada

Department: Insights & Analytics

Location: Toronto, Ontario

About the job

We are an innovative global healthcare company, committed to transforming the lives of people with immune challenges, rarediseases 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 themiracles of science every single day, pursuing progress to make a real impact on millions of patients around the world.

At Sanofi, we chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives. We believe our cutting-edge science and manufacturing, fueled by data and digital technologies, have the potential to transform the practice of medicine, turning the impossible into possible for millions of people.

• 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.
  

• Partner with marketing, finance, etc. to deliver actionable and impactful business insights
  
• Drive the deployment of standardized methodologies, tools and processes while actively working with local teams to maximize benefit
  
• Partner with and effectively drive Canadian digital analytics strategy to efficiently scale insights generation across all GBU's
  
• Leverage and integrate hub model to deliver streamlined and effective analyses and insights
  
• Work closely with other pillars to deliver a clear and consistent vision and strategy that is fully connected across the entirety of GTMC avoiding the creation of siloed operational functions
  
• Lead end to end data management (stewardship etc.) in order to ensure the relevant insight generation for the business
  

• Mange and develop the team supporting the Insights and Analytics function
  
• Definition and implementation of Insights & Analytics strategy based on product and market prioritization.
  
• Standardization of processes, methodologies, tools and solutions to enable insights and analytics including market research, competitive intelligence, forecasting, monitoring, optimization (including leveraging advanced analytical modeling), etc.
  
• Enablement and support of verticalized data management processes in partnership with finance and other business partners.
  
• Delivery of best-in-class and/or best-in-cost support based on organizational vision and product segment prioritization.
  
• Delivery of impactful analyses to optimize business (resource allocation) and deliver best-in-class and/or best-in-cost support based on overall business prioritization.
  
• Championing and implementation of contemporary and future technology and innovation including AI and GenAI.
  
• Collaborate closely with the Leadership Team, Financial Controllers, Franchise Heads and Brand Leads to align on the process, deliverables and timelines for all forecasting cycles (T1/SP, T2/Budget and monthly RF) and with other GTMC functions to ensure inclusion of the most recent market views/trends into forecasts
  
• Provide strategic guidance to epidemiology research projects, prospecting and targeting physicians, patient segmentation and predictive analytics projects, and to analytics projects such as segmentation, targeting, Market Mix Modeling, Sales force sizing, etc.
  

• You will foster partnerships and close collaboration between cross-functional teams (Marketing, Medical, Supply Chain, Digital, Procurement, Finance and GTMC) and drive structured ways of working between teams to provide maximum value and efficiency to business teams.
  
• You will ensure setting up lean but effective teams and efficient local governance.
  
• You will build and develop a team that uses complementary strengths and develop dedicated, strong, diverse leaders.
  
• You will continuously work with GBUs to deliver the value and insights expected from the Insights & Analytics GTMC pillar as true partner in enabling business growth.
  
• You will support successful establishment of global data stewardship and governance
  

• 10+ years in Insights & Analytics type roles of increasing responsibility
  
• Ability to leverage networks, to develop people, coach and give feedback, empower people.
  
• Ability to lead change while achieving business goals and objectives, act for change, challenging continuously the status quo.
  
• Strong cross functional partnering skills and ability to lead by influence and drive in matrix driven project teams/organizations
  
• High persistency and resilience.
  

• Functional expertise in relevant disciplines such as manipulating secondary market data to generate insights, KPI and dashboard management, managing market research, forecasting, advanced analytics, etc.
  
• Strategic analysis and planning, project management, IT knowledge and skills, proven communication, presentation, persuasion, skills ability to work cross-functionally.
  
• Strong knowledge of the Canadian market place.
  

• Business: Numerate and with good analytical skills; Ability to prioritize; Over achievement against set objectives; Ability to work on their own initiative and make quality decisions; Excellent interpersonal skills to communicate, present, persuade and argument among internal teams and partners.
  
• Analytics: Advanced understanding of Canadian pharmaceutical ecosystem and how to leverage Canadian data and analytics to extract valuable insights and drive commercial outcomes
  
• Leadership: Engages others through active communication; Demonstrates a high level drive, passion and ambition for optimal results; Challenges the current market status quo; Develops fresh approaches in order to deliver results. Well-developed time management skills. The ability to prioritize tasks and plan own workloads to ensure deadlines are met.
  
• Networking: Strong relationship builder; Seeks out new opportunities; Demonstrates Team Working and sharing of best practice. Experience of successfully leading projects in multicultural environments and in a matrix organization
  

• 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 andwellness programs and at least 14 weeks' gender-neutral parental leave.