Global Head of Device Platforms

Job description

**Job Title:** Global Head of Device Platforms

**Location:** Cambridge, MA

**About the Job**

We deliver 4.3 billion healthcare solutions to people every year, thanks to the flawless planning and meticulous eye for detail of our Manufacturing & Supply teams.

With your talent and ambition, we can do even more to protect people from infectious diseases and bring hope to patients and their families.

Lead the establishment and management of robust device technology platforms to support Sanofi's growing R&D pipeline and GBU portfolios through a platform-based strategy.

This role ensures critical innovation is completed off the critical path of product development by creating technology building blocks within an overall product platform architecture.

This role is critical to Sanofi's strategy of efficiently delivering innovative drug delivery solutions to patients while optimizing development resources through platform-based approaches.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.

We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible.

Ready to get started?

**Main Responsibilities**

**Platform Leadership & Development**

+ Provide end-to-end ownership of Auto-Injector (AI), Large Volume Device (LVD), and Pen Technologies, including specification and development of platform architectures
+ Ensure continuous platform improvements by anticipating Drug-Device Combination (DDC) applications to align platform capabilities with business requirements
+ Generate IP to protect platform innovations, generate revenue and gain FTO
+ Ensure architectural integrity, including system integration with primary containers, throughout the entire innovation and product lifecycle

**Cross-Functional Collaboration**

+ Work across Mfg & Supply, R&D, GBUs, and corporate functions to align business needs with platform roadmaps
+ Support key business decisions on product/technology licensing or acquisition and investments, including technologies to be internalized which have broad applicability across Sanofi’s pipeline..
+ Optimize internal development balanced with external partnerships to accelerate device development and ensure access to cutting edge technologies which support Sanofi portfolio

**Site Leadership**

+ Serve as GDPU Cambridge Site Coordinator
+ Manage activities and wellbeing of the entire GDPU Cambridge organization
+ Oversee HSE, facilities, communications, ways of working, and local Town Hall meetings

**Key Deliverables**

+ Platform roadmaps aligned with business needs
+ Verified and proven subsystem building blocks
+ Successful deployment of platform assets in product applications
+ Standardized processes for platform development and implementation
+ Robust supply chain structures for platform components

**About You**

**Required Expertise & Qualifications**

+ Extensive experience in medical device development, particularly in drug delivery systems
+ Proven track record in platform strategy development and implementation
+ Experience in systems engineering and quality management systems
+ Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage complex stakeholder relationships
+ Strategic and analytical thinking
+ BS in Engineering; advanced degree a plus

**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 employers committed to a culturally inclusive 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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**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.

Watch our ALL IN video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkpDBZ-CJKw&t=67s) and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com (https://www.sanofi.com/en/our-responsibility/equality-and-inclusiveness) !

_US and Puerto Rico Residents Only_

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.

_North America Applicants Only_

The salary range for this position is:

$258,750.00 - $431,250.00

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 (https://benefits.sanofiusallwell.com/fleet/public/index/ba511bf8-5c32-4828-9861-ab985fffab90/?cid=sanofi) .

Global Terms & Conditions and Data Privacy Statement (https://www.sanofi.com/en/careers/global-terms-and-conditions/)

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.

Discover more about us visiting www.sanofi.com or via our movie We are Sanofi (https://youtu.be/96EwNjb1TLo)

As an organization, we change the practice of medicine; reinvent the way we work; and enable people to be their best versions in career and life.

We are constantly moving and growing, making sure our people grow with us.

Our working environment helps us build a dynamic and inclusive workplace operating on trust and respect and allows employees to live the life they want to live.

All in for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Sanofi - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkpDBZ-CJKw&t=2s)

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