R&D Business Capability Manager Associate
Synthorx
Job title: Business Capability Manager Associate
Location: Hyderabad, India
About the job
Sanofi is a global life sciences company committed to improving access to healthcare and supporting the people we serve throughout the continuum of care. From prevention to treatment, Sanofi transforms scientific innovation into healthcare solutions, in human vaccines, rare diseases, multiple sclerosis, oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, diabetes and cardiovascular solutions and consumer healthcare. More than 110,000 people in over 100 countries at Sanofi are dedicated to making a difference on patients’ daily life, wherever they live and enabling them to enjoy a healthier life.
As a company with a global vision of drug development and a highly regarded corporate culture, Sanofi is recognized as one of the best pharmaceutical companies in the world and is pioneering the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with strong commitment to develop advanced data standards to increase reusability & interoperability and thus accelerate impact on global health.
The R&D Data Office serves as a cornerstone to this effort. Our team is responsible for cross-R&D data strategy, governance, and management. We sit in partnership with Business and Digital, and drive data needs across priority and transformative initiatives across R&D. Team members serve as advisors, leaders, and educators to colleagues and data professionals across the R&D value chain. As an integral team member, you will be responsible for defining how R&D's structured, semi-structured and unstructured data will be stored, consumed, integrated / shared and reported by different end users such as scientists, clinicians, and more. You will also be pivotal in the development of sustainable mechanisms for ensuring data are FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable).
Position Summary:
The R&D Business Capability manager associate serves as the interface between Business and Digital/Data on foundational data capabilities or needs across R&D. This role will be responsible for identification of key use cases across R&D, high level data solutioning (e.g., data strategy, governance/standards, management, infrastructure needs etc), and oversight of day-to-day operations for their specific data capability.
Main responsibilities:
Work in collaboration with R&D Data Office leadership, business, and R&D Digital subject matter experts:
Partner with key stakeholders across R&D functions to identify data-related needs and initiatives (e.g., data catalog, master and reference data management, data products, etc.) and design innovative data solutions to support business priorities
Partner with R&D Digital stakeholders to oversee data-related activities and verify data functionality from ingest through access
Drive program management of initiatives and capabilities; ensure on-schedule/on-time delivery and proactive management of risks/issues
Establish ways of working across all partner functions for specifically assigned capabilities/initiatives
Examine multidimensional datasets and drive business processes updates to be performed and steer the respective change initiatives
Oversee maintenance of documentation and act as an expert on data definitions, data flows, legacy data structures, access rights models, etc. for assigned domain
Manage and maintain data modelling methodology already established within Data Governance team
Educate and guide R&D teams on standards and information management principles, methodologies, best practices, etc.
Participate in the evaluation of new technologies and innovation projects related to information management
Manage and evolve current data integration standards policies and procedures, and data quality management services
Manage maintenance of data lineage and support root cause analysis and impact assessment on data related topics
Define and maintain KPIs on data governance products and services
Deliverables
Develops business case development, requirement identification, and use case development for business functions
Implements business process definition, process performance, process execution, process management, and continuous improvement opportunities
Drives a culture of operational excellence through a set of fundamental process management practices
Collaborates with the Data Stewards to define the key master and reference data elements for business processes
About you
Experience in business data management, information architecture, technology or another related field
Modelling experience with standard tools
Basic programming skills
Good knowledge of Pharma cross-industry data standards
Familiarity with Pharma R&D processes and technology
Ability to build business relationships and understand end-to-end data use and needs
Diplomatic and stakeholder management skills across business, technology, and partners
Demonstrated strong attention to detail, quality, time management and customer focus
Excellent written and oral communications skills
Strong networking, influencing and negotiating skills and superior problem-solving skills
Demonstrated willingness to make decisions and to take responsibility for such
Excellent interpersonal skills (team player)
People management skills either in matrix or direct line function
Education bachelor’s or master’s degree in Life Sciences disciplines (Biology, Chemistry, Bioinformatics, Cheminformatics, etc.)
Pursue progress, discover extraordinary
Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.
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