Job title : Manager, Field Leadership & Skill Development

Location: Bridgewater, NJ or Cambridge, MA (Hybrid role)

Travel: Approximately 25-30% travel for offsite meetings and/or trainings.

About the Job

We are 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 has currently the best and most robust pipeline of R&D and consequent new launches of our history. As new phase of Play-To-Win strategy, funding this pipeline and new launches is key to materialize the miracles of the science to improve people lives. Thus, as we enter the next phase, modernization of Sanofi is required as per the recent announcements on DRIVE, and in this respect, we are in the beginning stages of organizing the Go-to-Market Capabilities (GTMC) team at global level.

The GTMC organization will help us to drive best-in-class capabilities across the board and bring value and excellence in our commercial operations. This move is a key part of the aimed modernization of Sanofi and will allow us to focus on our priorities across our products, market and pipeline through the reallocation of resources and realizing the efficiencies of removing silos that exist between our business units, avoiding the duplication and overlapping of resources, standardizing our processes and tools, operating with a One Sanofi approach to accelerate our key capabilities development, and fostering the entrepreneurial spirit by speeding up the decision making.

The North America Field Learning and Development Team is a key engine to drive customer engagement, team leadership and team success. The L&D Team’s primary purpose is to support our field teams to exceed product goals in order to expand the ability to support more patients through continuous learning excellence.

Main Responsibilities:

This role serves as the project management subject matter expert for assigned product(s) of primary focus. The manager will collaborate with key matrix partners in the support of the development of comprehensive learning solutions fostering a learning environment focusing on adult learning principles and ensuring ongoing development and retention in support of brand objectives and strategies. The manager may serve as lead in coordinating leadership training classes and ad hoc training needs throughout the year. They will evaluate, select, and manage processes and/or projects enhancing leadership and customer engagement skill development This role reports to the Director of Field Leadership & Development.

• Supports the Strategy Development with cross-functional departments (sales, marketing, medical) when onboarding new-hires to effectively facilitate process for new field sales representatives to completing training requirements for certification. Partners with management to ensure programs/materials are relevant and have business focus.

• Leads the project management of all initiatives related to Field Leadership and Customer Facing skill Development for Go-To-Market Capabilities relating to Commercial Training (Including senior leadership summit planning, roll out of new training platforms,etc.)

• Partner with internal customers to support the development and maintenance of leadership & customer facing skill training tools, workshops, and classroom presentations to ensure they are current and meet the needs of all stakeholders.

• Constantly assess the effectiveness of the training programs and product learning modules. Proactively upgrades learning material to meet evolving training needs of the sales force.

• Develop continuous learning tools, e-learning, Advanced Training and Experiential training as well as assessment programs to support all sales training programs and that are aligned to a brand and business needs.

• Ensure leadership and skill training projects and materials are evaluated against and meet good training and adult learning principles and ensure all projects and materials have been through the correct regulatory review process before being delivered to field sales forces.

• Partner with Marketing and Sales leadership teams to measure and monitor the impact of training on the business and make recommendations for improvement.

• Development of Scopes of Work (SOW) for new and existing projects with outside vendors and manage the projects from inception to completion.

About You

Work Experience & Requirements:

• 5+ years in Commercial Operations environment, especially in supporting field force learning and development.

• Bachelor’s Degree required

• Relevant pharmaceutical/biotech/vaccine industry experience

• Experience in Learning and Development and Adult Education Methods preferred

• Proven communication skills with a well-developed ability to efficiently and productively communicate both verbally and in writing.

• Advanced skills in Microsoft Applications for use in Training Development, Facilitation, and Effectiveness Reviews including but not limited to TEAMs and PowerPoint

• Training / Workshop facilitation skills and background

• Demonstrated excellence in project management and effectively managing multiple projects/priorities

• Outstanding organizational skills, time management and dealing with conflicting priorities

• Strong interpersonal skills (with demonstrated stakeholder management, conflict management / resolution in group dynamic)

• Experienced in leading by influence and driving in matrix project teams and organizational set-ups.

• Project management: ensure the correct pace of the acceleration.

• Proven delivery of outstanding results.

• Ability to leverage networks, to develop people, coach and give feedback, empower people.

Skills and Competencies:

• Business : Ability to prioritize; Financial and Development acumen; Over achievement against set objectives; Ability to work on their own initiative and make quality decisions; Excellent interpersonal skills to communicate, present, persuade and argument among all GBUs teams and partners.

• Leadership : Leads by example and walks the talk; Role models the principles and behaviors of Play-To-Win and Thoughtful Risk Taking. Engages others through active and impactful communication; Demonstrates a high-level drive, passion and ambition for high performance; Challenges continuously the status quo; Develops fresh approaches in order to deliver results; Has well-developed time management skills, mastering in prioritizing tasks and planning own workloads to ensure deadlines and desired results are met.

• Networking : Is a strong relationship builder; Seeks out new opportunities; Demonstrates teamworking and shares best practices always; Has experience of successfully leading projects in multicultural environments and in a matrix organization.

• Personal Characteristics : Hands-on, accountability, creativity, initiative, high persistence and resilience, stress management, learning agility, result orientation, ability to work on one’s own, continuous improvement, listening skills, empathy to understand the needs of the different businesses within distinct geographies.

• High persistency and resilience.

Why Choose Us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused 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.

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally inclusive and diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; natural or protective hairstyles; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

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With more than 100,000 people in 100 countries, Sanofi is transforming scientific innovation into healthcare solutions around the globe. Discover more about us visiting www.sanofi.com or via our movie We are Sanofi (https://youtu.be/96EwNjb1TLo)

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