Global Lead, Health Ecosystem & Innovation

Global Lead, Health Ecosystem & Innovation

At Sanofi, we chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives. We are accelerating Sanofi's modernization journey, supporting our Take the Lead strategy to become more focused, integrated, agile, and efficient. The most transformative medical innovations rarely emerge from within a single organization — they arise at the intersection of pharma, academia, digital health start-ups, patient communities, and technology innovators.

Sanofi's Medical Innovation team is committed to harnessing the best of the external world to accelerate our mission.

Within the Medical Strategy, Transformation and Excellence team, the Medical Innovation function serves as the enterprise incubator for high-impact innovation across Medical Affairs. The team operates at the intersection of science, technology, and strategy — building future-state capabilities, testing breakthrough solutions, and partnering with GBUs and Digital teams to ensure innovation translates into measurable impact for patients and the business.

The Global Lead, Health Ecosystem & Innovation is the gateway through which the best of the external world enters Sanofi's Medical Innovation pipeline. This role is responsible for building and managing Sanofi's external innovation ecosystem — identifying, engaging, and partnering with health tech start-ups, academic institutions, Digital Therapeutics (DTx) companies, patient-finding platforms, and innovation accelerators that bring "outside-in" innovation to Sanofi's medical strategy.

As an incubator within the Medical Innovation Lab, this leader scouts and brokers external innovations, build partnerships, and defines integration frameworks before handing mature solutions to GBU operational teams.

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.

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.

• Define and own the Health Ecosystem & Innovation roadmap, bringing "outside-in" innovation from start-ups, academia, digital health, and patient communities into Sanofi's medical innovation pipeline.
• Build and manage a strategic external innovation ecosystem encompassing start-up partnerships, academic collaborations, Digital Therapeutics (DTx) alliances, and patient-centric data platforms.
• Lead the Patient centric strategy, building capabilities that improve Sanofi's ability to identify, understand, and engage patient communities in support of medical and evidence-generation objectives.
• Identify, evaluate, and broker partnerships with digital health start-ups and DTx companies whose capabilities complement or enhance Sanofi's medical portfolio and patient engagement strategy.
• Build and maintain a dynamic map of the external health innovation landscape, including competitive intelligence across digital health, AI-powered medical tools, and DTx.
• Represent Sanofi at external innovation forums, accelerators, and academic conferences, serving as the company's ambassador to the health innovation ecosystem.

• Function as the primary incubator for external medical innovation partnerships — manage the full pipeline from opportunity scouting through due diligence, KPI definition, and handoff to GBU operational teams.
• Design and manage structured test and learn use case programs with external partners, establishing clear success criteria, governance frameworks, and escalation pathways.
• Collaborate with the Global Head of Medical Innovation, GBU leadership, and Digital Partners to assess and prioritize external innovation opportunities based on medical value, technical feasibility, and strategic fit.
• Present curated external innovation opportunities to the Medical Innovation Council, providing structured assessments…