Associate Director, Leadership Excellence & Customer-Facing Skills

Sanofi•Cambridge, MA

About The Position

As Associate Director, Leadership Excellence & Customer-Facing Skills within our Corporate Functions team, you will be part of an innovative global healthcare company committed to transforming the lives of people with immune challenges, rare diseases and blood disorders, cancers, and neurological disorders. From R&D to sales, our talented teams work together, revolutionizing treatment, continually improving products, understanding unmet needs, and connecting communities. We chase the miracles of science every single day, pursuing progress to make a real impact on millions of patients around the world. Sanofi currently has the best and most robust pipeline of R&D and consequent new launches in our history. As the new phase of our Play-To-Win strategy, funding this pipeline and new launches is key to materializing the miracles of science to improve people's lives. As we enter this next phase, modernization of Sanofi is required, and we are in the beginning stages of organizing the Go-to-Market Capabilities (GTMC) team at a global level to drive best-in-class capabilities across the board and bring value and excellence in our commercial operations. The Associate Director of Leadership Excellence & Customer-Facing Skills reports to the Director of Leadership Excellence & Customer-Facing Skills. This team develops and implements leadership development and customer-facing skills solutions across General Medicines, Vaccines, and Specialty Care. You will work closely with Senior Field leadership, People & Culture, Commercial Training peers, and Global Commercial Training colleagues to understand the needs and gaps to be addressed, ensuring that the customer-facing organization, both leaders and individual contributors, are equipped with the skills and competencies to drive the success of our business. Critical to this role is providing harmonized solutions while considering necessary customization at the therapeutic and functional level, all in a compliant manner. This position requires a strong background in leadership, project management, adult learning, training, and strategic thinking. You will be responsible for delivering solutions to address known behavioral and skill-based issues to drive performance and business results for both leaders and members of customer-facing teams. The ideal candidate should possess a strong bias towards enterprise leadership, needs-based design and development, proactivity, clear communication, and a tendency towards optimizing solutions in both quality and efficiency. Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? Join Sanofi in one of our corporate functions and you can play a vital part in the performance of our entire business while helping to make an impact on millions around the world.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree required.
5-8+ years of relevant experience in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry, with a strong foundation in field sales, ideally progressing into field leadership, Learning & Development, or Commercial Training roles.
Meaningful experience leading national or home office-based training programs, with 3+ years preferred.
Demonstrated expertise in leadership development, training design, needs analysis, adult learning principles, and measuring training effectiveness
Experience leading without authority in a matrix environment including global partnerships.
Experience in having deployed innovative learning solutions for large-scale audiences.
Strong facilitation skills and executive presence; ability to communicate to all levels of the organization.
Ability to develop rapport and credibility with key stakeholders.
Supporting IT platforms for delivery and reinforcement
Project management with proven delivery of outstanding results.
Ability to lead change while achieving business goals and objectives, act for change, challenging continuously the status quo.
Proven track record of strong execution and results.
High persistency and resilience.

Nice To Haves

Experience leading and developing diverse teams across multiple functions
Demonstrated leadership ability to drive change within an organization, cultivating support and maximizing contribution from team members
Experience of leading a team, working with field sales force and driving talent development of a team
Customer-facing transversal skills
Performance-based development for key stakeholders and teams
Demonstrated ability to think strategically
Ability to work in a team environment with collaboration across multiple functional areas
Ability to leverage networks, to develop people, coach and give feedback, empower people
Strong quantitative abilities and experience managing a budget

Responsibilities

Actively contributing to the Leadership Excellence & Customer-Facing Skills team with a focus on developing the skills, behaviors, and mindset of customer-facing personnel, both leaders and individual contributors.
Partnering with senior leadership to identify, prioritize, and execute skill development for their respective customer-facing teams.
Executing training needs to build, revise and implement curriculum to meet changing market demands for customer-facing leadership and individual contributors.
Building alliances and partnerships with Senior Leaders and global/local business partners to increase consistency and capability to align strategy and manage change effectively.
Partnering with TA leadership team to measure and monitor the impact of training on the business and make recommendations for improvement.
Collaborating with other Global partners and functions to identify and leverage existing resources and best practices in developing customer-facing leadership and individual contributors within the organization.
Collaborating with the broader Customer Facing Capabilities/Commercial Training team for support in execution of the overall customer-facing leadership and individual contributors’ curriculum.
Performing other duties as assigned.

Benefits

Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, futurefocused team.
Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.
Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.
Make your work count by supporting a company that brings life-changing treatments to millions — and is committed to doing right by patients, communities, and the planet.
Drive progress from within by helping simplify, scale, and modernize how a global biopharma business delivers smarter, faster, and more sustainably.
Make an impact across borders and functions, collaborating with leaders to turn complex challenges into real-world solutions.
Advance your career through stretch roles, cross-functional moves, and development opportunities designed to match your ambition.

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