Product Owner- Digital R&D Operational Analytics Fabric

Sanofi US; Toronto; On-site; CAD 93,000 - 136,000; Full time

Job summary

A global biopharma company is seeking a Product Owner for Digital R&D Operational Analytics in Toronto. This role involves leading the development of operational analytics products, ensuring data integrity, and collaborating with stakeholders to drive data-driven decisions. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree and 3-5 years of relevant experience in digital analytics or data product management, alongside strong analytical skills and expertise in data governance. A competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package are offered.

Benefits

Health and wellbeing benefits

Competitive salary and rewards package

Opportunities for career growth

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in digital analytics or data product management.
• Strong understanding of pharmaceutical R&D business processes.
• Demonstrated expertise in data integration and governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead product development from ideation to launch.
• Establish data governance and quality standards.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs.

Skills

Digital analytics

Data product management

Pharmaceutical R&D processes

Data governance

Analytical skills

SQL proficiency

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Snowflake

Google BigQuery

AWS RedShift

Job description

R2834620 Product Owner- Digital R&D Operational Analytics Fabric

Location: Toronto, ON

About the Job

Ready to grow your skills while helping shape the future of healthcare? At Sanofi, you’ll be empowered to learn, ask questions, and bring your ideas to life – all while supported by inspiring mentors and collaborative teams.

Ready to revolutionize how R&D makes decisions? Join us as the Digital R&D Operational Analytics Fabric Product Owner and lead the development of essential operational analytics products that power our Portfolio and Project Analytics decision support suite. You'll establish the single source of truth that enables R&D leaders to make holistic, data-driven decisions across portfolio investments, project planning, and operational execution.

Working within the R&D Portfolio and Project Analytics team, you'll play a critical role in equipping decision-makers with timely, actionable insights. This unique opportunity allows you to implement innovative AI/ML concepts while collaborating with diverse vendors and key stakeholders across the organization.

About Sanofi:

We’re an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.

Main Responsibilities:

Product Development & Delivery

• Lead product development for one or more products in the operational analytics fabric from ideation to launch, focusing on cross-functional data integration and rich semantic layer development. Initial focus will be on the Portfolio 360 and/or KPI 360 products. Portfolio 360 will be the data layer that integrates all of relevant entities for Portfolio decision-making while KPI 360 will act as the single source for calculated KPIs, linking strategic and operational KPIs.
• Play a pivotal role in establishing the R&D Operational Analytics Fabric as the single source of truth serving all analytic/GenAI/GenBI consumers, enabling R&D leaders to make holistic, data-driven decisions that is based on high quality, trusted data.
• Facilitate business discussions and business process analysis for the purposes of identifying data product needs and delivering data integrations/data products.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to establish the necessary data governance:
• • Establish data owner/steward network to identify "data champions" to advocate colleagues on best data practices to increase utilization of data assets for portfolio/project decision-making.
  • Establish clear, measurable data quality standards (accuracy, completeness, timeliness, consistency) for the product.
  • Create and maintain a centralized repository of data definitions, business glossaries, and semantic standards for the product.
  • Partner with Master Data Management, Ontology, and Controlled Vocabulary initiatives to ensure interoperability and harmonization of data/metadata across key entities supporting portfolio/project analytics & reporting.
  • Establish data access policies to ensure secure, compliant data democratization.
  • Collaborate with data engineering teams to codify/automate all of the above
  • Identify and resolve functional data issues across datasets that prevent integration and/or analytics at scale.
• Develop a detailed and executable product delivery plan and timeline across design, build, and run activities; lead the product through governance requirements.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand R&D business needs, gather requirements, establish user stories, and define product features; Manage backlog refinement and drive features prioritization effort.
• Communicate effectively across non-technical stakeholders, technical stakeholders, and engineering teams to ensure the delivery of outcomes aligned to R&D business needs and valuedelivery.
• Define, monitor, and analyze business and performance related product-level KPIs, reporting outcomes to team leadership and key collaborators.
• Manage technology vendor relationships and partnership strategies.
• Manage and keep up to date the allocated budget for the product development.
• Triage operational demands against product roadmaps and delivery plans.

About You

• Bachelor's degree with 3-5 years of experience in digital analytics or data product management.
• Strong understanding of pharmaceutical R&D business processes, particularly in project and portfolio management.
• Demonstrated expertise in conceptual data modelling, data integration, data governance, and semantic model/metadata management to build enterprise-grade data products.
• Strong analytical skills with proven experience defining and tracking business metrics, developing KPI frameworks, and creating business intelligence dashboards.
• Proficiency in SQL and experience with cloud-based data platforms (Snowflake, Google BigQuery, AWS RedShift), with additional knowledge of DBT, Python, or Informatica ETL considered a plus.
• Excellence in agile methodologies, stakeholder management across technical and business teams, and data product design from concept to production deployment.
• Experience implementing data quality management frameworks, data access policies, and governance standards in complex enterprise environments.
• Familiarity with emerging technologies including GenAI tools, prompt engineering, graph databases, and GraphQL to drive innovation in data products (preferred)

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

This position is for a new vacant role that we are actively hiring for.

Sanofi is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. Our goal is to attract, develop and retain highly talented employees from diverse backgrounds, allowing us to benefit from a wide variety of experiences and perspectives. We welcome and encourage applications from all qualified applicants. Accommodations for persons with disabilities required during the recruitment process are available upon request.

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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.

North America Applicants Only

The salary range for this position is:

93,900.00 - 135,633.33

All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs. Additional benefits information can be found through the LINK.

La fourchette salariale pour ce poste est la suivante:

93,900.00 - 135,633.33

Toute compensation sera déterminée en fonction de l'expérience démontrée. Les employés peuvent être admissibles à participer aux programmes d'avantages sociau de l'enterprise. Des informations supplémentaires sur les avantages sont disponibles via le lien.