Hybrid Senior Manager – Digital Alliances

at Sanofi

• Job title: Senior Manager – Digital Alliances
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $147,000 - $212,333 per year
• Degree requirement: Postgraduate Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Cambridge, United States

About the role

• Senior Manager overseeing a portfolio of digital alliances to ensure operational success and strategic alignment. Driving partnerships that enhance Sanofi's digital transformation in healthcare.

Responsibilities

• Manage assigned alliances and provide regular updates to internal stakeholders on alliance health, focusing on strategic and contractual aspects of relationships.
• Monitor and oversee collaborative projects, delivering quarterly updates that track progress, timelines, and performance metrics to ensure successful execution.
• Facilitate effective communication between internal teams and alliance partners to ensure adequate information flow and knowledge transfer.
• Maintain accurate records of alliance activities and agreements, ensuring information is updated in appropriate internal systems.
• Assess and mitigate risks associated with assigned alliances while ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Manage alliance governance to ensure internal alignment of Sanofi committee members and effective decision-making of governance bodies.
• Ensure committee meetings are conducted efficiently and regularly, driving key meeting components including objectives, agendas, and minutes.
• Identify changes and make adjustments or recommendations to governance structures as needed to optimize alliance effectiveness.
• Ensure compliance with contractual provisions and rights in collaboration with Legal, Commercial Operations, Digital, IA, and R&D teams.
• Recommend necessary contract amendments and participate in renegotiation processes in close collaboration with Legal, Partnering, and other functions.
• Anticipate and manage disagreements and disputes, minimize conflict, and avoid breach of contract and litigation risks.
• Establish and build a Digital Alliances Center of Excellence (COE) with the Senior Director of Alliances, capturing digital alliance best practices and creating a community within Sanofi for sharing and exchanging ideas.
• Participate in strategic research projects with Senior Director of Alliances and Partnership colleagues, including benchmarking Sanofi Digital Alliances against competitors within and outside the industry.
• Contribute to Digital Strategic Partnerships & Alliances cross-team projects as required

Requirements

• Minimum of 4+ years of work experience in life sciences/health care or tech industry.
• Master’s degree in Sciences or Business-related field is required.
• An MBA and/or an advanced Scientific/Engineering degree (e.g., PharmD or PhD) is a plus.
• Advanced knowledge of MS Office applications.
• Ability to organize, collaborate and lead cross-functionally with scientific, engineering, digital, data, finance, and/or commercial team members.
• Proven soft skills: ability to listen, interpret and respond to information that may be sensitive and material for both Sanofi and the alliance Partner.
• Experience in interacting in a highly professional manner with senior executives both within the parent organization and with partner companies.
• Knowledge of the pharmaceutical/biotech/medical device/technology industry(ies).
• Knowledge of new digital technologies, terminology, tech / start-up culture, product development processes (e.g. agile).
• Highly motivated and team-oriented professional eager to face business challenges, share experiences and add sustainable value to the organization.

Benefits

• health insurance
• prevention and wellness programs
• at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave