Sanofi US | Specialty Care Finance Strategy & Operations Lead

Main responsibilities

• The role operates as a 50/50 split: serving as Chief of Staff to the Global Head of Finance Specialty Care, and supporting the Finance Strategy & Cross-Organization Excellence Lead on strategic finance priorities.
• This role is the connective tissue of the SPC Finance organization — sitting on the Specialty Care Finance Leadership Team, ensuring leadership operates with discipline and cohesion while also contributing to the strategic financial agenda that drives Specialty Care's long-term ambitions.
• In R&D, you’ll drive breakthroughs that could turn the impossible into possible for millions.
• Design and own the SPC Finance Leadership Team governance model, meeting cadence, agenda architecture, and decision-making frameworks.
• Maintain a master executive calendar across all SPC Finance forums, ensuring leadership time is protected and focused on priorities.
• Facilitate leadership forums and ensure decisions are made, documented, and tracked to completion.
• Maintain a living log of key decisions and follow-up actions across the FLT, driving accountability and closure.
• Serve as the primary interface with People & Culture (P&C) on talent strategy, organizational design, and development planning.
• Lead the Your Voice survey results action plan and champion team-building and culture efforts within the FLT.
• Own internal communications for SPC Finance, including townhalls, leadership messages, and all-hands forums.
• Develop executive-ready materials for internal and FLT-facing audiences.
• Ensure comprehensive compliance with all internal controls and financial/accounting principles within the perimeter of the role.
• Support the development and annual refresh of the Specialty Care long-range strategic plan (LRP), integrating financial modeling, pipeline assumptions, and competitive dynamics.
• Support financial and strategic architecture for new product and indication launches across SPC's therapeutic portfolio, partnering with Commercial, M&A, and Regulatory.
• Assist in cross-organizational strategy coordination across SPC, M&A, BD, and IR — ensuring strategies are financially integrated and aligned to the overall SPC ambition.
• Support the Finance Innovation Roadmap, including digital transformation priorities, advanced analytics, and process automation opportunities.
• Prepare executive-ready materials and provide updates to senior leadership on strategic project Progress, risks, and financial impact.
• Partner with Investor Relations (IR) to ensure narratives are financially coherent, externally credible, and aligned with guidance commitments.
• Support launch performance dashboards

Requirements

• Strong project management capabilities; able to lead multiple high-priority workstreams simultaneously with limited oversight
• Exposure to strategic finance topics including LRP, portfolio strategy, M&A/BD, or financial modeling is a strong plus

Sanofi US

Sanofi US is an employer hiring in India. In its own words: "Sanofi is a research & development-driven, AI-powered healthcare biopharmaceutical company committed to improving lives through innovative medicines & vaccines."

Its finance, accounts, audit and tax openings in India are mostly in Cambridge and United States.