Clinical Digital & AI Acceleration Innovation Manager

Clinical Digital Acceleration Innovation Manager

Cambridge, MA

Join the engine of Sanofi’s mission where deep immune science meets bold, AI‑powered research. In R&D, you will drive breakthroughs that could turn the impossible into possible for millions. Sanofi is a leading biopharmaceutical company committed to advancing healthcare through groundbreaking research and development. Our dedicated function Clinical Sciences & Operations (CSO) ensures accurate, compliant clinical trial submissions and project operations, contributing to the approval of innovative therapies that transform patients’ lives.

Within CSO, the Modernization & Performance Office (MPO) acts as a key enabler of transformation and modernization, driving strategic initiatives that enhance efficiency, digital innovation and operational excellence across the function. As we continue our business transformation, we are seeking an exceptional professional to join us as Digital Acceleration & Innovation Lead.

As a CSO‑wide, function‑level leadership role reporting to the Head of Clinical Digital & AI Acceleration, you will have explicit accountability for shaping, steering and realizing the value of CSO’s digital and AI transformation agenda across Sanofi Clinical Sciences & Operations (CSO). You will operate as a strategic authority rather than a delivery contributor, responsible for orchestrating global‑scale digital and AI transformation across clinical development with decision rights on portfolio prioritization, investment trade‑offs, resource allocation and execution strategies within the transformation portfolio.

The incumbent will directly influence CSO operating model evolution, ensuring that digital and AI initiatives fundamentally reshape how clinical trials are designed, executed and governed globally, with measurable business, quality and patient impact. The role combines strong digital and AI domains with function‑level business and transformation leadership, requiring the ability to produce decision‑grade insights for CSO leadership, translate complex technology and regulatory constraints into strategic value hypotheses and steer outcomes across highly matrixed, regulated environments.

You will also leverage competitive and technology intelligence to proactively shape CSO strategic choices.

• Portfolio Management – Co‑own and lead CSO Digital & AI transformation initiatives at function level, ensuring alignment with CSO strategy, business priorities and value realization commitments; exercise decision authority on initiative prioritization, sequencing and trade‑offs; align flagship transformation initiatives (e.g., ACT4
  
  Patients & eDEV) to ensure coherence, integration and early business outcomes; continuously challenge and recalibrate the transformation roadmap based on business performance data, field feedback and competitive intelligence; ensure global visibility and governance alignment across all internal and external digital innovation initiatives; evolve the iPMO as a governance and decision‑enablement mechanism; define and enforce governance standards; hold transformation teams accountable for outcome‑based delivery and value realization.
• Transformation Projects Leadership & Engagement Management – Lead and sponsor high‑impact, multi‑million‑euro transformation programs with Digital and/or AI components; accountable for end‑to‑end outcomes, including strategic alignment, financial performance, adoption, scale‑up and sustained value delivery; direct and validate competitive and technology intelligence; provide strategic direction on vendor models, sourcing strategies and contractual frameworks; oversee financial planning, investment phasing and resource allocation; influence CSO‑wide positioning and integration of strategic platforms;
  
  ensure successful enterprise deployment and scale‑up, tracking realized benefits beyond pilot stages; own risk, dependency and performance steering.
• Digital & AI Acceleration Capability Building – Define and own CSO‑wide frameworks for measuring ROI, business impact, adoption and maturity of digital, data and AI initiatives; provide portfolio‑level,…