Transformation Lead, Strategy and Operations, Specialty Care GBU

Job title:

Transformation Lead, Strategy and Operations, Specialty Care GBU

Location:

Cambridge, MA / Morristown, NJ

Join the team transforming care for people with immune challenges, rare diseases, cancers, and neurological conditions. In Specialty Care, you’ll help deliver breakthrough treatments that bring hope to patients with some of the highest unmet needs. The Transformation Lead turns the Specialty Care GBU’s transformation priorities into delivered change across its franchises and functions. Sitting within the Strategy & Operations team, you will lead complex, cross‑functional transformation initiatives, spanning digital and AI‑enabled ways of working through to operational excellence, and carry them from design to adoption and measurable impact.

• Transformation Delivery – lead the end‑to‑end delivery of priority transformation initiatives for the Specialty Care GBU, from framing and business case through execution, adoption, and value capture; build and run delivery plans, milestones, and governance; anticipate risks and remove barriers that slow execution.
• Digital, AI & Operational Excellence – identify where digital, AI, and better ways of working create the most value across the GBU value chain; drive operational excellence and cross‑franchise synergies, scaling what works and retiring what does not; embed new tools and processes so they are genuinely adopted and sustained.
• Cross‑functional Leadership & Influence – mobilize and lead cross‑functional expert teams through the matrix, without direct authority; hold diverse contributors to shared goals and timelines; influence decisions and priorities through credibility and evidence; act as a trusted partner to strategy & operations leadership.
• Measurement & Impact – define and track the metrics that show each initiative has delivered, connecting activity to operational and business outcomes; establish clear accountability and reporting so progress and impact are visible to GBU leadership; capture and share lessons and reusable approaches to accelerate future transformation.

• Education – Bachelor’s degree required; business, scientific, engineering, or related field is preferred. Advanced degree (MBA, MSc, or equivalent) preferred.
• Experience – Minimum 8 years of progressive experience delivering complex transformation with a demonstrable record of change that was implemented, adopted, and scaled; blend of digital/AI‑enabled transformation, operating‑model or operational‑excellence transformation within biopharma, and experience in a top‑tier strategy or transformation consulting environment; track record of leading cross‑functional initiatives through a matrix; familiarity with building and deploying digital, data, and AI capabilities;
  
  ability to travel 20% domestic and international.

• Delivery focus – turns ambiguous, complex problems into structured plans and carries them through to measurable impact.
• Digital & AI fluency – conversant enough with digital, data, and AI to partner credibly with technical experts and translate capability into business value.
• Influence – exceptional communication and stakeholder‑management skills, with the credibility to align senior leaders and mobilize teams without direct authority.
• Agility – comfortable with ambiguity and able to adapt quickly in a fast‑paced, matrixed global environment.
• Leadership skills – leads through influence, energizing matrix teams and drawing on the strengths of diverse experts toward a common goal; strategic thinking; politically astute.
• Result orientation – driven to deliver outcomes, takes ownership, anticipates issues, and takes calculated decisions to keep initiatives moving.
• Languages – Fluent in English.

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Sanofi US Services and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity employers committed to a culturally inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, ancestry, nationality, marital, domestic partnership or civil union status, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, veteran or military status, domestic violence victim status, atypical cellular or blood trait, genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing), or any other characteristic protected by law.