Digital Consumer Strategy & Research Lead

Digital Consumer Experience Strategy & Research Lead

Location:

Morristown, NJ

Join the digital engine driving Sanofi’s transformation – where AI, automation, and bold experimentation power faster science and smarter decisions. Here, you’ll help build the first biopharma company powered by AI at scale.

The Consumer Experience (CX) Strategy lead provides the end‑to‑end consumer experience strategy and digital solutions for Sanofi patients, customers, and staff to work seamlessly and easily across products and services within its ecosystem while aligning with the product roadmap, users, market customers, and technical frameworks.

You develop CX strategy to differentiate and deliver innovative digital solutions that will make health care more accessible, more integrated and more reliable for users in collaboration with cross‑functional teams and other key stakeholders. You will identify and set CX strategy, envision complex CX ecosystems, and inspire teams to push the boundaries of what’s possible. Your success will see your strategies being the lighthouse for the projects you are working on.

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.

• Deliver CX strategy for R&D transformation: define our experience strategy and measurement frameworks to support R&D's digital evolution.
• Lead cross‑functional collaboration: partner with Digital R&D, R&D and engineering teams to integrate CX strategy into product development processes.
• Drive strategic implementation: ensure CX initiatives meet milestones while managing resources and mitigating risks under tight deadlines.
• Evangelize CX Excellence: represent and advocate for consumer experience across the organization, influencing product and service strategy direction.
• Build team capabilities: mentor CX Strategy team members and contractors, fostering continuous learning and industry awareness.
• Champion digital transformation: lead cultural shifts in how CX functions within R&D and broader organizational context.
• Ensure CX strategy meets agreed upon milestones, mitigating risk and maximizing process efficiency.

• Experienced in putting design thinking in practice, end to end.
• Service design expertise and experience with multi‑layer experience analysis (users, data flows, system structures).
• Able to question the initial space and the assumptions behind the brief; know how to “open up the solution space” and run ideation sessions.
• Need to articulate the experience strategy and the north‑star vision and know how to break the north‑star vision down to identify the MVP.
• Experienced running collaboration and co‑creation workshops.
• Experienced creating new products or services from scratch.
• Experienced creating solutions with AI/ML.
• Systems thinking.
• Experienced in mapping complex digital ecosystems and determining how different pieces or applications might fit together, managing multiple international stakeholders.
• High EQ to manage different stakeholders within the organization and understand how to bring them along.
• Affinity with science (biology, chemistry), or prior experience in pharma, healthcare or life sciences is strongly preferred.

• Minimum 5+ years of hands‐on CX/UX strategist in a large global enterprise, agency, consulting or start‑up/scale‑up setting, in the context of digital product/services or software design.
• Bachelor’s degree in any field. Master’s degree and/or MBA is a plus.

• Vibrant and engaging storyteller with strong business communication and presentation abilities to all levels of the company.
• Agility, decisiveness, resilience, transparent communications, and openness with strong attention to details.
• Comfortable with change and ambiguity: naturally confident in a shifting world.
• Ability and interest to help lead cultural shifts in the organization…