Digital R&D Strategy and Operations Analyst

Job title: Digital R&D Strategy and Operations Analyst

• Location: Morristown, NJ

About the job

The Digital R&D Strategy & Operations Analyst will support the execution of governance, portfolio operations, financial tracking and meeting administration across two Digital R&D areas: Clinical Development and Pipeline & Project Analytics teams.

The ideal candidate is highly organized, structured, proactive, and comfortable working across business, digital, finance, procurement, and product teams. The role requires someone who can help turn strategic priorities into organized plans, track decisions and actions, prepare governance & administrative materials, and keep complex work moving in a fast-paced global environment.

The analyst will support driving operational discipline across digital product portfolios, governance forums, budget planning cycles, vendor/procurement activities, and cross-functional initiatives.

Join the digital engine driving Sanofi’s transformation - where AI, automation, and bold experimentation power faster science and smarter decisions. Here, you’ll help build the first biopharma company powered by AI at scale.

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.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Portfolio Operations Support

• Support the maintenance of Digital R&D strategy materials, operating plans, portfolio views, and roadmap documentation.

• Help organize and track priority initiatives across teams, including milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and follow-up actions.

• Support the consolidation of inputs from Product Line Owners, program leads, finance, procurement, and business stakeholders.

• Help ensure portfolio information is clear, current, and consistently structured across teams.

• Work across teams to ensure key reporting systems are up-to-date, consolidate meeting materials, decision logs, action trackers, and follow-up communications.

Performance, Value, Communication & Execution Tracking

• Support the tracking of business value, delivery progress, milestones, operational performance and budget across priority initiatives.

• Help collect and organize inputs related to value delivery, sequencing, business cases, KPIs, OKRs, and adoption indicators. Identify gaps, inconsistencies, or missing inputs in budget, resource, and procurement documentation.

• Assist in preparing summary views that communicate progress, risks, dependencies, and value realization to leadership.

• Support follow-up on action items to ensure commitments are completed and progress is visible.

• Draft and organize clear, concise communications, meeting summaries and portfolio reports.

• Support internal communications related to portfolio progress, operating model updates, governance, and transformation activities.

• This role may involve working with data, but the primary focus is operational coordination, portfolio discipline, and governance support, not hands-on analytics or dashboard development.

General Operations Support

• Coordinate meetings, manage agendas, capture meeting notes, document decisions, and follow up on commitments.

• Maintain organized trackers, repositories, templates, and operating documents.

• Support ad hoc operational projects, analysis, and problem-solving as needed.

• Help coordinate meetings and events for key Digital R&D sessions

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• 1–3+ years of experience in Strategy, Operations, or a related field

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in business, finance, life sciences, digital field, or related field

• Understanding of organizational change management and Six Sigma methodologies

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail

• Experience working with budgets, OKRs, and performance metrics

• Ability to synthesize data into clear, actionable insights and presentations

• Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to collaborate across technical, business, and finance teams

• Results-oriented, proactive, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

Preferred Qualification:

• Experience in digital R&D teams

• Familiarity with BI tools (Power BI, Tableau)

• Familiarity with pharma R&D processes (portfolio management, clinical operations, CMC, Labs)

• Basic understanding of agile development and product lifecycle

Why Choose Us

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, futurefocused 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.

• Join the digital force behind Sanofi’s AI-powered pipeline, where Expert, Generative, and Snackable AI accelerate the discovery, development and delivery of breakthrough treatments to patients.

• Help reduce time from discovery to commercialization, delivering life-changing medicines to patients faster than ever.

• Join a workplace where diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core, with Employee
  Resource Groups and leadership programs that celebrate every voice.

Sanofi US Services 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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All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.