About the position
At Sanofi, we’re committed to providing the next-gen healthcare that patients and customers need. It’s about harnessing data insights and leveraging AI responsibly to search deeper and solve sooner than ever before. Sanofi (NYSE: SNY) is a leading global integrated healthcare company that discovers, develops, and distributes therapeutic solutions to improve the lives of everyone. The company works to prevent and treat the diseases of today, as well as those we may face tomorrow. With over 100,000 dedicated professionals in more than 100 countries, Sanofi is devoted to advancing healthcare around the world. Sanofi has recently embarked into a vast and ambitious digital transformation program. A cornerstone of this roadmap is the acceleration of its data transformation and of the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) solutions, to accelerate R&D, manufacturing and commercial performance and bring better drugs and vaccines to patients faster, to improve health and save lives. Sanofi operates across multiple therapeutic areas including General Medicines, Specialty Care, Vaccines and Consumer Healthcare. US Market Access Digital Business Capability aims at realizing the full pricing & access potential of Sanofi solutions by creating compelling value for payers and patients and by transforming how the company engages and partners with our stakeholders. Digital Platforms under governance and care are leveraging technologies provided by Model N, Appian, as well as custom technologies in Government Pricing and Analytics. The Digital Product Owner – Commercial Contracts is fully accountable for overall digital product strategy, oversight and business value delivery to the business area’ stakeholders. This will require working closely with the different Business areas within US Market Access, across the different digital product owners, Digital Business Analytics, Digital Technology, Architecture, Services and Experts to ensure that we are clearly identifying customer needs, prioritizing features, guiding the work and developing the program vision and roadmap. This role interacts closely with the business to establish strategies, and communications by effectively planning, designing, monitoring the progress, developing and delivering the solution, resolving issues, managing communications with all stakeholders, ensuring systems integrity, managing risk, dependencies, and contributions, and focusing on the systems coherence with infrastructure planning, interfaces with other programs and corporate technical and compliance standards. The role drives the overall awareness, prioritization, and orchestration of resources (budget and manpower) to deliver digital solutions on prioritized Digital assets identified and agreed to at the Digital Towers. We are seeking a highly skilled Product Owner with experience migrating and managing complex business applications in vendor SaaS, managing a multitude of business demands and transforming legacy digital landscape while leveraging the latest proven digital technologies. This role is responsible for solution delivery of all integrations with Model N SaaS and on-prem data replication platforms, combining information from the business, technical, and data sets to solve business needs and problems. He/She leads and executes Product Owner expertise all along the lifecycle (plan, design, build, run) of Digital Solutions and Digital Products belonging to US Market Access domain.
Responsibilities
- Product Owner responsible for solution delivery and implementation of all integrations with Model N SaaS and data replication platforms in US.
- Provides a broad and strategic vision and functional expertise of a Contract Pricing domain to respective product lines.
- Deep knowledge in Contracting and Pricing integrations, data sourcing/sharing, techno-functional components, and reporting needs.
- Responsible for project engagement / buy-in and communication around the projects/products.
- Defines the project scope (content, cost, planning) and facilitates the governance for projects.
- Responsible for identifying and engaging project contributors, such as cross-functional and transversal teams for projects.
- Responsible for E2E RFP process for new products, and completion of Statement of Work (SOW) with vendors and subcontracting partners.
- End-to-end responsibility for solution from the project planning through execution, solution installation and transition to support team.
- Provides oversight and guidance to the Application Managed Services (AMS) team for Contracting and Pricing systems.
- Interacts closely with the business to maintain established strategies and define new strategies, roadmaps, and solution approach.
- Maintains current knowledge of industry and business process trends and ability to influence the business leaders in defining business process optimizations with a focus towards efficiency, automation and innovation.
- Ensures US Contracting & Pricing platform architecture is compliant with Sanofi Security, Quality and Compliance requirements thus reducing time to market.
- Contributes actively to Operational excellence: Facilitating risk management and conducting/contributing to Problem root causes analysis.
- Collaborates transversely across Sanofi's ITS community to share ideas, common solutions, and best practices thereby harmonizing solutions and developing repeatable, scalable best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Pharmaceutical Business Administration.
- Product Owner (8-10+ years of experience) with Contracting and Pricing domain knowledge: experience related to administration of contracts with payers including managed care, and other commercial payers, as well as processing of rebates, chargebacks and administrative fees.
- Vendor Management.
- Understanding of security, risk and compliance frameworks, disaster recovery, high availability architectures, hardware, operating systems and networking connectivity.
- Large-scale systems integration involving on-premises technology and public cloud platforms.
- Broad subject matter expertise across cloud computing, infrastructure, IT operations, network, applications, enterprise architecture, and data management.
- IT Architecture.
- Project Management.
- Agile approaches.
- Must possess good communication skills (oral, written, and presentation) and be able to convey technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
- Understanding of the relevant Legal Regulatory and Quality requirements.
Nice-to-haves
- Expertise in Model N Flex technologies.
- E2E solutions leveraging cloud offerings to support Contracting & Pricing systems and interfaces.
- Partnering relationship with the Strategic Contracting and Pricing business user community.
- Ensures the performance of the services included in his/her scope (Business Value created, Financials, Respect of SLA, Compliance).
Benefits
- Wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare.
- Prevention and wellness programs.
- At least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.
