Job Detail

Reference Number: R2650376

Position Title: Business Planning Lead

Department: General Medicines Canada

Location: Sanofi Aventis, Mississauga

About Sanofi – www.sanofi.ca

Sanofi is dedicated to supporting people through their health challenges. We are a global biopharmaceutical company focused on human health. We prevent illness with vaccines, provide innovative treatments to fight pain and ease suffering. We stand by the few who suffer from rare diseases and the millions with long-term chronic conditions. With more than 100,000 people in 100 countries, Sanofi is transforming scientific innovation into healthcare solutions around the globe.

Sanofi entities in Canada include Sanofi Genzyme (Specialty Care), Sanofi Pasteur (Vaccines), General Medicines and Consumer Healthcare. Together we employ approximately 2,000 people. In 2019, we invested $131 million R&D in Canada, creating jobs, business and opportunity throughout the country.

Sanofi Canada consolidates its commercial offices into a state-of-the-art facility in Toronto.

Discover your future at Sanofi in areas such as medical, regulatory, commercial and many more. When we recruit new talent, we see it as a fresh start to build their career with Sanofi. If you join us, be prepared to take on new professional opportunities, explore innovative ideas and contribute to our ambition to change the practice of medicine. You will be part of a flexible and inclusive workplace - based on trust and respect - so you can live your life the way you want to.

Position Summary:

• Reporting to the General Manager of General Medicines, the Head of Business Planning will assume a critical role serving as strategic advisor and counsel, assuming day-to-day responsibility and project management for key strategic projects and tasks and creating and maintaining cross-functional relationships to enable leadership success.

• The position will liaise regularly with the Leadership Team and their respective functions (Sales, Market Access, Business Operations & Support, Brand Teams, IA, RD, etc.), on strategic priorities.

• The role will be responsible to manage the Business Planning processes including marketing strategic planning, financial planning and forecasting, and demand/supply management coordination. While these processes may be led by other functions this individual will be responsible to coordinate, manage cross-functional communication and alignment, and ensure related processes are both locally and globally cohesive.

• Responsible for tracking of key projects for the General Medicines business and the related metrics and Key Performance indicators as well as Key Internal Issues impacting the business.

Key Responsibilities:

Direct Support of the General Medicines Commercial Business

• Setting the strategic priorities: helping the leaders identify the areas where they must direct their focus and identifying metrics for success. The priorities are to be communicated widely to the teams, re-evaluated regularly, and their progress is to be tracked continually.

• Working in collaboration with the Communications business partner to plan and execute both the internal and external Communications plans for the overall business. This could include defining the Communications strategy, providing input to communications plans, or drafting messages and presentation decks for the dissemination of key information internally, and consolidating reports, pitch decks, or presentations for the leadership team.

• Management of the External Sales force through external organization program leaders and Sales Managers in alignment with the General Manager. This would include coordination of Quarterly Business Reviews, Sanofi Training Plans, facilitation of new system, product, business model launches, as well as on-boarding processes.

• Supporting the transformation to and execution of the Agile methodology in collaboration with the local and global Omnichannel teams.

Strategic and Business Planning

• Leading annual strategic planning for the General Medicines Business Unit.

• Collaborate with the appropriate teams to coordinate the budget planning process through the consideration across all appropriate functions.

• The role will be responsible to manage the Business Planning processes including marketing strategic planning, financial planning and forecasting, and demand/supply management coordination. While these processes may be led by other functions this individual will be responsible to coordinate, manage cross-functional communication and alignment, and ensure related processes are both locally and globally cohesive.

• Creating and updating dashboards for reviewing key performance indicators for cross-BU projects and working with the marketing teams to assist in the coordination of brand specific dashboard reviews.

Project Management

• Leading and/or overseeing large, often cross-functional strategic projects or initiatives.

• Bringing together multiple stakeholders and helping drive decisions.

• Researching, benchmarking, analyzing data and making recommendations.

• Developing, adapting, and reviewing systems and processes to streamline operations.

• Ensuring the documentation and transparency of key processes, and adhering to basic knowledge management principles

• Acting as liaison with compliance as well as internal auditors to support leadership and the broader team in SOP roll-outs, audit coordination, and governance project execution.

Management, Leadership and People Development

• Promoting, through leadership, the values of Sanofi Canada and the specific vision/ambition of the General Medicines organization.

• Creating an inspirational environment that fosters learning, entrepreneurial spirit, teamwork, empowerment, passion, respect and trust

• Leading and managing change to ensure alignment to the organization’s strategic direction in support of the key objectives.

• Accountable for implementation of Health, Safety and Environment programs and continuous promotion of safety behaviors across the organization.

Meeting & Event Preparation

• Planning and leading leadership retreats, priority setting meetings, and other special events (including major meetings such as leadership meetings, sales meetings, Global leadership team meetings and other key initiative meetings).

• Meeting preparation and follow up: reviewing upcoming meetings to ensure the leadership team has all of the information needed prior to the meeting, and ensuring agendas and objectives are communicated in advance.

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.

Thank you in advance for your interest.

Only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.

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