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Global Head of Patient Privacy

Synthorx

Synthorx

Paris, France
Posted on Jun 19, 2025

Le contenu du poste est libellé en anglais car il nécessite de nombreuses interactions à l’international, l'anglais étant la langue de travail.

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Job title: Global Head of Patient Privacy

Main responsibilities:

In this role you will act as a global leader and expert on Health Data Privacy, promote and shape a culture of privacy at every stage of the patient's data life cycle, mastering Sanofi’s Thoughtful Risk Taking and Patient centric approach. Reporting to our Chief Privacy Officer and group DPO, you will lead a team of Privacy Officers.

You will be part of Sanofi Privacy Leadership team.

· Manage and develop a diverse team of Patients Privacy Officers, ensuring they have adequate resources and on-going expertise and capability to perform their roles

· Chair the Patient privacy council, consisting of appointed Privacy Champions, Business Process Owners and Risk Owners. Through this council, you will drive Sanofi’s Health Data Privacy strategy and deliver the Risk Management plan, reporting its status to R&D Executive Leadership through established KPIs

· Drive to the design and continuous improvement of Sanofi’s Heath Data Privacy and AI Ethics standards, ensuring the appropriate balance between compliance, trust and the optimized use of Health data to generate deeper insights to our research and medical activities.

· Actively monitor privacy and AI regulations/enforcements, and adapt global procedures when required

· Independently Review Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) for high-risk data processing activities; and oversee the resolution of global health data breaches, ensuring timely notification to data subjects and Data Protection Authorities

· You will actively partner with R&D Business Owners and R&D Legal teams in ensuring the Global Patients initiatives you support are compliant with Sanofi Code of Conduct and Privacy regulations, mastering Thoughtful Risk Taking in driving decisions

· You will co-author internal position papers with Legal, R&D and Government Affairs, representing Sanofi in industry advocacy efforts with Trade associations, Patient Associations Groups and Data Protection Regulators

· You will drive the effective closure of action plans originating from regulatory inspections and internal audits

About you:

· Master or PhD in LifeScience; Law or Computer Sciences

· Excellent understanding and working experience of the R&D journey of a new drug from the definition of the drug candidate to product registration and safety, with a demonstrated experience in working in highly regulated environments, preferably in project and/or compliance management

· Demonstrated experience in applying privacy principles and regulations in Research and Development (CIPP/E, CIPM or similar privacy qualification is Mandatory)

· Experience working in an international environment and proven team leadership experience

· Solid communication skills and stakeholder management to establish credibility and drive decision making with senior internal stakeholders, balancing authority (executive presence) with solutions orientation.

· Advanced advocacy skills with external stakeholders (regulators and industry peers) to influence future regulations and shape Healthcare ecosystem.

· Ability to translate how the regulatory, societal and technological changes in biomedical research are impacting the patient privacy risk profile to proactively identify long term risk mitigations and opportunity strategies

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.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

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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.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!