Position title: Digital Strategy Lead

Department: Digital Strategy

Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)

About the job

We're looking for a Digital Strategy Lead to drive the development, delivery, adoption and continuous improvement of a connected suite of digital portfolio products. You'll work at the intersection of user needs, data, and organizational strategy to drive the AI-first transformation journey that we are on — defining problems worth solving, shaping measurable outcome-based goals, and partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver real value. This is a hands-on role for someone who communicates with clarity, deciphers ambiguity, and knows how to keep a team moving in the right direction with discipline.

Main Responsibilities:

• Creating Program Strategy and connecting the dots: Understand the key elements of our transformation journey and bring them together in a cohesive, programmatic manner to be able to execute on. With the definition of the KPIs that will help us measure progress, you will drive the benefits of better portfolio understanding. Define clear, measurable outcomes tied to user behavior and tool-based value. Prioritize work based on evidence and impact, not urgency or pressure. Create outcome-oriented sprint goals that give teams a shared sense of purpose.

• Work with users, not for: We embrace a product mindset at Sanofi. You will work with various stakeholder groups including process owners, programs owners, and product owners to streamline the experience of them navigating portfolio capabilities so that they can make the best decision, faster. You will conduct interview, workshops, journey mapping sessions, and test assumptions and iterations on how the products can be designed to better suit the outcome targeted.

• Transformation KPI management: You will iterate on the development of a transformation KPI dashboard and reporting structure that can help users make the best decisions about changes or enhancements they need to make in their program plan, to deliver on the right outcomes. Bringing the right insight to various levels of stakeholders will be key to drive an understanding of the current state and where we navigate to next.

• Portfolio insight generation: You will drive actionability off insight by advising on trends, issues and risks that need to be investigated. You will help drive solutions on how to navigate next steps best with the right support structures for endorsement.

• Build Shared Understanding Use story mapping, journey mapping, and collaborative design sessions to align teams around the why before jumping to the how. Work with your local and global teams to bring the best solutions forward for execution. Bring stakeholders into discovery, testing, and co-creation at the right moments. Make dependencies, trade-offs, and priorities visible and legible across the team.

• Engage & Align Stakeholders Work closely with business SMEs, leadership, compliance, tech, and design. Use storytelling to rally diverse stakeholders around problems and outcomes. Bring stakeholders into discovery and co-creation where possible, building trust and shared ownership of the product direction.

• Enable & support end-users through adoption strategy: Prepare and deliver end-user training, coordinate rollout communications, provide hypercare, and build lightweight support assets (how-to, walkthroughs, FAQs). Turn user feedback into actionable improvements and measurable adoption gains.

About You

Experience:

• Bachelors degree with 5+ years of relevant work experience

• A degree is in sciences, engineering, or business is preferred

• Masters degree is an asset but not must

• Proven experience as a Program or Portfolio Manager in cross-functional teams

• Support large organizational transformations with the use of AI tooling to support optimization in work habits

• Skilled at balancing discovery and delivery with clarity and adaptability

• Experience defining program outcomes and measuring value realization

• Comfortable with dual-track Agile, Lean Startup principles, and rapid validation

• Track record of problem-solving and overcoming roadblocks in complex environments with a hands-on "get things done" mindset

Skills & Qualifications:

• Strong communicator and facilitator; able to align diverse stakeholders including executive audiences. Able to surface tensions to governance forums for discussion and decision making

• Discipline in delivery, ownership of outcomes and painting a vision to teams to set north star metrics on.

• Cross-functional leadership and influencing skills with the ability to think strategically and partner across business and technology teams

• Analytical and data-driven; comfortable using metrics to guide product decisions

• Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree preferred

Nice to Have:

• Experience in pharmaceutical, life sciences, or other regulated industries

• Familiarity with GenAI technologies and their application in enterprise products

• Knowledge of portfolio management, finances, and program management

• Background in digital transformation or enterprise data governance

• Experience working in global, matrixed organizations

North America Applicants Only

The salary range for this position is:

Final compensation will be determined based on demonstrated experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefits programs, and additional benefits information can be found through the (CA)LINKOR (US) LINK.

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