Global Lead, Innovation Expansion & Adoption

Global Lead, Innovation Expansion & Adoption

Location:

Cambridge, MA, Morristown, NJ

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. Innovation without adoption is just a test and learn use case. The most persistent challenge in pharmaceutical innovation is not generating great ideas — it is ensuring that proven solutions move from proof‑of‑concept to global standard.

Sanofi’s Medical Innovation team is solving that challenge.

Within the Medical Strategy, Transformation and Excellence team, the Medical Innovation function serves as the enterprise incubator for high‑impact innovation across Medical Affairs. Operating on an Incubator‑to‑Operator model, the team scouts, use cases, and proves new capabilities before scaling them into standard practice globally. This requires not only bold ideas, but disciplined execution — and a dedicated leader who ensures that what works in a test and learn use case becomes the new standard of care for Medical Affairs worldwide.

The Global Lead, Innovation Expansion & Adoption is the operational bridge between Sanofi’s Medical Innovation Lab and the broader Medical Affairs organization. This role owns the full scaling lifecycle — from change management and KPI governance through GBU transformation partnering and Hub innovation coordination — ensuring that innovations tested by the team become permanent, scalable capabilities embedded across Medical GBUs and Hubs worldwide.

This is a role for a transformation‑minded professional who thrives at the intersection of strategy, execution, and people change, and who measures success by standards established.

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 Innovation Expansion & Adoption roadmap, establishing the frameworks, governance models, and change management strategies that transform successful use cases into global enterprise standards.
• Lead the development and management of Sanofi’s Medical Innovation scaling playbook — a standardized methodology for transitioning innovations to GBU operational ownership at scale.
• Design the Incubator‑to‑Operator handoff model — establishing clear criteria, governance checkpoints, and transition protocols for when a use case is ready to move from the Innovation team to operational owners (Field Excellence, Scientific Communications, and other pillars).
• Establish and manage the KPI and governance framework for all Medical Innovation initiatives, tracking adoption rates, impact metrics, time‑to‑standard, and scientific value delivered across Markets and GBUs.
• Own the Medical Innovation Council’s reporting cadence for adoption and scaling milestones, ensuring transparent DAI (Decide, Advise, Inform) governance across all scaling initiatives.
• Contribute to the 5‑year Medical Innovation roadmap by providing adoption feasibility and scalability assessments for proposed innovation initiatives.

• Serve as the primary transformation business partner to Medical GBUs, spending significant time embedded in GBU leadership meetings to facilitate adoption of scaled innovations and address GBU‑specific barriers.
• Design GBU‑specific adoption roadmaps for major Medical Innovation platforms, ensuring solutions are configured, deployed, and optimized for GBU context and workflow.
• Lead cross‑GBU coordination forums that accelerate adoption learning, share best practices, and resolve scaling challenges across…