Digital Functional Expert - People Analytics

Job title: Digital Functional Expert - People Analytics

• Location: Hyderabad

About the job

Sanofi is a global life sciences company committed to improving access to healthcare and supporting the people we serve throughout the continuum of care. From prevention to treatment, Sanofi transforms scientific innovation into healthcare solutions, in human vaccines, rare diseases, multiple sclerosis, oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, diabetes and cardiovascular solutions and consumer healthcare. More than 110,000 people in over 100 countries at Sanofi are dedicated to making a difference on patients’ daily life, wherever they live and enabling them to enjoy a healthier life. As a company with a global vision of drug development and a highly regarded corporate culture, Sanofi is recognized as one of the best pharmaceutical companies in the world and is pioneering the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with strong commitment to develop advanced data standards to increase reusability & interoperability and thus accelerate impact on global health.

Our ambition is to deliver best-in-class enterprise services enabling Sanofi to chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives. Within Digital Delivery and Operations, we are building solutions that empower data-driven decisions, enhance workforce agility, and improve organizational performance. We simplify processes, break down barriers, and rapidly cross-fertilize the best ideas across Sanofi.

We have identified three key drivers:

• Community – Building a vibrant team that attracts and engages talent

• Excellence – Simplifying, standardizing and continuously improving processes to capture synergies, scale effects and productivity improvements

• Digitalization – Enabling transparency, data-driven decision-making support, agility and rapid innovation across Sanofi's entire value chain.

Reporting to the Head of Total Workforce Management & People Analytics, the Functional Expert – People Analytics will provide deep functional and technical expertise to support, configure, and operate People Analytics platforms across the enterprise. This role will focus primarily on Visier and Qualtrics, ensuring optimal platform configuration, administration, and integration with HRIS, Vendor Management Systems (VMS), cloud data warehouse platforms, and workforce planning tools.

As an individual contributor, you will work hand in hand with the Digital Product Owner to deliver solutions and ensure successful roadmap execution. You will collaborate closely with business stakeholders, the People Insights team, Master Data, and IT teams to ensure analytics solutions are reliable, secure, and aligned with business needs. This role requires strong functional knowledge of analytics platforms, data flows, integrations, security models, and Agile ways of working, combined with a customer-oriented mindset.

Main responsibilities:

• Act as the functional expert for People Analytics platforms, primarily Visier and Qualtrics, supporting day-to-day operations, configuration, and enhancements. Work closely with the Digital Product Owner to deliver roadmap initiatives, support sprint execution, and translate priorities into functional solutions.

• Configure, administer, and maintain analytics platforms, including user management, data models, hierarchies, and functional settings. Support and coordinate integrations between analytics platforms and HRIS (Workday preferred), VMS, cloud data warehouse platforms, and workforce planning tools.

• Ensure alignment of security and access models between HRIS and analytics platforms, in compliance with data privacy and data protection standards. Partner with the Master Data and IT teams to ensure data quality, consistency, and reliability across the People Analytics ecosystem.

• Translate business requirements into functional specifications, user stories, and configuration changes. Provide functional support, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis for platform and data-related issues.

• Collaborate with vendors on releases, upgrades, testing, and issue resolution. Promote a customer-oriented approach, ensuring solutions meet business needs and deliver actionable insights.

About you:

• Experience:3+ years’ experience in People Analytics, with hands-on exposure to analytics platforms and HR data ecosystems.

• Technical Skills: Proven experience in a functional, technical, or platform expert role within People Analytics or HR technology. Mandatory functional knowledge of Visier and Qualtrics platforms, including configuration and administration. Strong understanding of data integrations across HRIS (Workday preferred), VMS, and enterprise data ecosystems. Experience with cloud data warehouse platforms (Snowflake preferred). Solid understanding of security models, role-based access, and data privacy in HR and analytics systems.

• Soft Skills: Agile ways of working are mandatory, with experience supporting sprint execution and iterative delivery. Hands-on experience using JIRA or similar Agile work management tools is highly desirable. Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to work across functional and technical teams. Proactive, collaborative, and customer-oriented, with the ability to connect technical solutions to business needs.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in business, Information Systems, HR, or a related field; advanced degree is a plus.

• Languages: Verbal and written fluency in English

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.

• Opportunity to work in an international environment, collaborating with diverse business teams and vendors, working in a dynamic team, and fully empowered to propose and implement innovative ideas. 

PursueProgress. Discover Extraordinary.

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. You can be one of those people. Chasing change, embracing new ideas and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Let’s pursue progress. And let’s discover extraordinary together.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

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