Sr. AI Driven Innovations Lead

Job Title:

Sr. AI Driven Innovations Lead

Location:

Morristown, NJ

About the Job

Join the engine of Sanofi's mission - where deep immunoscience meets bold, AI-powered research. In R&D, you'll drive breakthroughs that could turn the impossible into possible for millions.

Are you ready to shape the future of medicine? The race is on to speed up drug discovery and development to find answers for patients and their families. Your skills could be critical in helping our teams accelerate progress.

At Sanofi, we chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives. We are accelerating Sanofi's modernization journey supporting our Play to Win strategy in ways that allow us to be more focused, integrated, agile, and efficient. The current wave of digital technologies in artificial intelligence (AI) and Generative AI offers enormous opportunities to transform clinical development.

We are seeking a Sr. AI Driven Innovations Lead within Clinical Data & AI Processing organization to lead and drive the end-to-end vision, strategy, and execution of AI/ML and agentic AI solutions for clinical data processing, analysis, and regulatory submission, ensuring alignment with Sanofi's broader R&D and digital transformation agenda.

This role will define the multi-year strategic roadmap for AI-driven clinical data capabilities, balancing near-term operational priorities with long-term innovation investments across data ingestion, review, transformation, and submission workflows. It will drive cross-functional standards initiatives

(CDISC/CDASH/SDTM) to ensure organizational coherence and compliance. Working closely with cross-functional business and digital teams, this position will accelerate clinical development by leveraging AI/ML, analytics, and data science to enable near real-time, interactive access to clinical data and analyses, driving operational excellence across the organization.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives. We're also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

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:

Strategic Leadership

* Lead and drive development of AI/ML solutions for clinical data processing and analysis.

* Collaborate with Digital partners to build and deploy integrated data flow technology products that enable seamless clinical operations

* Ensure the roadmap is scalable and flexible to meet global and therapeutic-area specific needs.

* Lead quarterly and annual planning, prioritizing initiatives based on impact, resource capacity, and scientific value.

* Gather and prioritize requirements from cross-functional teams to define the "What" and "Why" of product development.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

* Serve as strategic liaison between clinical business teams (clinical data management, statistical programming, biostatistics) and technical teams, translating complex requirements into actionable product specifications that deliver measurable clinical value and business impact

* Engage with Business leads, Digital R&D leaders, and AI/ML experts to influence technology strategy, platform selection, and build vs. buy decisions. Partner with clinical system owners (e.g., Medidata, Veeva Vault) and external data providers to optimize data ingestion and lifecycle management.

Delivery Excellence

* · Ensure timely and high-quality delivery of technology products in alignment with sprint plans and release milestones.

* Champion agile product development and iterative delivery, balancing short-term execution with long-term product health.

* Drive measurement of impact through business KPIs, data usage metrics, and…