Senior Manager of Digital Alliances

About This Role

This role supports a portfolio of digital alliances, coordinating with functional experts, operational units, and partners to ensure value creation. You will oversee partnerships, ensuring they align with strategic priorities and contractual obligations, and contribute to negotiating new deals and amending existing agreements.

Responsibilities

• Manage assigned alliances and provide regular updates to internal stakeholders on alliance health, focusing on strategic and contractual aspects
• Monitor and oversee collaborative projects, delivering quarterly updates that track progress, timelines, and performance metrics
• Facilitate effective communication between internal teams and alliance partners for adequate information flow and knowledge transfer
• Maintain accurate records of alliance activities and agreements, ensuring information is updated in appropriate internal systems
• Assess and mitigate risks associated with assigned alliances while ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements
• Manage alliance governance to ensure internal alignment of Sanofi committee members and effective decision-making of governance bodies
• Ensure committee meetings are conducted efficiently and regularly, driving key meeting components including objectives, agendas, and minutes
• Identify changes and make adjustments or recommendations to governance structures as needed to optimize alliance effectiveness
• Ensure compliance with contractual provisions and rights in collaboration with Legal, Commercial Operations, Digital, IA, and R&D teams
• Recommend necessary contract amendments and participate in renegotiation processes in close collaboration with Legal, Partnering, and other functions
• Anticipate and manage disagreements and disputes, minimize conflict, and avoid breach of contract and litigation risks
• Establish and build a Digital Alliances Center of Excellence (COE) with the Senior Director of Alliances
• Participate in strategic research projects with Senior Director of Alliances and Partnership colleagues, including benchmarking
• Contribute to Digital Strategic Partnerships & Alliances cross-team projects as required

Requirements

• Minimum of 4+ years of work experience in life sciences/health care or tech industry
• Master’s degree in Sciences or Business-related field
• Advanced knowledge of MS Office applications
• Ability to organize, collaborate and lead cross-functionally with scientific, engineering, digital, data, finance, and/or commercial team members
• Proven soft skills: ability to listen, interpret and respond to sensitive information
• Experience in interacting in a highly professional manner with senior executives
• Knowledge of the pharmaceutical/biotech/medical device/technology industry(ies)
• Knowledge of new digital technologies, terminology, tech / start-up culture, product development processes (e.g. agile)

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Sciences or Business-related field
• Minimum of 4+ years of work experience in life sciences/health care or tech industry

Nice to Have

• MBA
• Advanced Scientific/Engineering degree (e.g., PharmD or PhD)

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits