Senior Director R&D Portfolio Data Strategy & Insights

Job Title:

Senior Director R&D Portfolio Data Strategy & Insights

Location:

Morristown, NJ, Cambridge, MA

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.

The Global R&D Portfolio Strategy and Management team's overarching objective is to equip Sanofi's leaders with robust, objective and externally focused insights and recommendations they need to make better informed R&D strategy, and portfolio and project investment decisions to ensure pipeline sustainability.

We achieve this by (1) delivering a comprehensive R&D strategy positioning the organization to embrace future opportunities and challenges, driving sustained success (2) by ensuring a sustainable portfolio strategy, robust valuation and prioritization of the R&D portfolio and optimization of resources, high quality pipeline reporting, benchmarking, and scientific competitive intelligence (3) by ensuring high quality investment governance incorporating decision quality and thoughtful risk taking principles (4) bringing end-to-end project management capabilities to successfully progress the pipeline while highlighting all the risk.

Robust data governance, metadata management, and data quality practices enable the team to deliver comprehensive portfolio analytics, accurate pipeline reporting, reliable benchmarking, and competitive intelligence insights.

The Senior Director of R&D Portfolio Data Strategy & Insights plays a critical role in establishing and maintaining the data foundation that powers portfolio decision-making and strategic planning across the organization:

* Provide strategic leadership for Data, AI and GenAI tied to R&D Project and Portfolio Management business objectives,

* Lead the delivery of a portfolio of new and mature AI data products to generate transformational impact,

* Continue to build and improve foundational data assets and related governance as standards for adoption across all R&D project and Portfolio Management applications.

POSITION OVERVIEW/

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Portfolio Strategy & Management Team is seeking a team-oriented leader for the role of Senior Director R&D Portfolio Data Strategy & Insights. This role is critical in establishing and maintaining a FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data foundation that enables the team's portfolio analytics, reporting, and strategic decision-making capabilities while ensuring regulatory compliance. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in pharmaceutical R&D data management, a strong track record in implementing governance frameworks, and the ability to drive operational excellence through data quality and stewardship.

You will gain exposure to all of Sanofi's therapy areas and data domains, working with senior leaders across R&D, Digital, Business Operations, and business functions to establish robust data governance practices that enable efficient and secure data utilization. Your ability to translate complex data governance requirements into actionable frameworks, partner effectively across functions, and drive adoption of data best practices will be key to supporting the Portfolio Strategy and Management team's mission to deliver objective insights for R&D strategy and portfolio investment decisions.

This role directly enables the Portfolio Strategy & Management team's success by ensuring that portfolio analytics, valuation models, pipeline reporting, and competitive intelligence are built on a foundation of high-quality, well-defined, and well-governed data, taking a technology/AI-driven approach to delivering on these objectives.

* Provide strategic leadership and vision for data, AI, GenAI and Agentic AI initiatives across R&D Project and Portfolio Management, aligning digital transformation roadmaps with business objectives and operational excellence goals.

* Able to transform the Data and AI strategy into execution at speed and at scale, together with R&D Operations and R&D Digital teams.

* Support the build and evolution of R&D Portfolio and Project Management data foundations, and democratization of data.

* Drive operational innovation through advanced analytics, machine learning models, computer vision, GenAI and Agentic AI applications to optimize project and portfolio decision-making

* Establish and maintain strategic partnerships with internal stakeholders:
Project Management, Project Resource Management, R&D Finance, Reporting, Portfolio Analytics, R&D Data Office, R&D Digital and GTMC.

* Prioritization and roadmap planning for AI transformation initiatives across Project and Portfolio Management, partnering with Digital Product Lines Owners in balancing quick wins with long-term strategic programs and ensuring alignment with R&D objectives.

Strategic Leadership & Change Management:

* Develop and execute a comprehensive enterprise data strategy aligned with Sanofi's business objectives and…