Digital R&D Launch & Marketed Products Jr. Product Owner

Job Description

Job title: Digital R&D Launch & Marketed Products Jr. Product Owner

Location: Hyderabad

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At Sanofi, we chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives. We believe our cutting-edge science and manufacturing, fueled by data and digital technologies, have the potential to transform the practice of medicine, turning the impossible into possible for millions of people. As one of the leading investors in life sciences, manufacturing and research and development, we focus on delivering new and better ways to address unmet medical needs. Our products empower self-care, prevent and treat diseases, and help people live better.

Digital & Data is at the heart of Sanofi. Our ambition is to be the leading digital healthcare platform to develop & deliver medicine faster, enable healthcare professionals to improve treatments and help patients improve their health. Our scale, strong connections within health ecosystems across leveraging the world, and ability to leverage Sanofi's capabilities make us the best place to push the boundaries of medicine through technology.

Why joining Sanofi Digital… ?

• Executive sponsorship and governance, with newly appointed CDO & leadership team

• Digital & data culture in place with agile ways of working and a strong ecosystem (Sanofi Ventures, BD Partnerships)

• Unique diversity of medical & technical challenges, with mobility opportunities

About the Team

The Launch & Marketed Products (LMP) team is one of the verticals within Digital R&D, focused on developing and delivering digital products that support the commercialization and lifecycle management of Sanofi's pharmaceutical portfolio. LMP encompasses multiple interacting product lines including Global Regulatory Affairs (GRA), Pharmacovigilance & Patient Safety (PSPV), Medical Affairs, Medical Information, GenAI Document Authoring, and Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures (MA&D). These product lines play a critical role in ensuring regulatory compliance, patient safety, medical engagement, and seamless business transitions across Sanofi's marketed products.

About the Role

We are seeking a talented Digital R&D Launch & Marketed Products Jr. Product Owner to drive digital transformation initiatives across our commercialization and post-market operations. This role serves as a critical bridge between regulatory, pharmacovigilance, medical affairs, and technology teams, focusing on the digitalization and optimization of processes supporting marketed products. The ideal candidate will combine deep knowledge of pharmaceutical commercialization, regulatory submissions, and patient safety operations with strong business analysis capabilities to enable seamless integration of digital solutions across the LMP ecosystem.

In this position, you will play a pivotal role in translating complex regulatory, safety, and medical affairs requirements into actionable user stories and epics that drive our agile development processes. You will work closely with cross-functional development teams to ensure that digital solutions for LMP product lines align with business objectives, enhance operational efficiency, and support our commercialization goals. Your expertise in pharmaceutical SaaS platforms and post-market processes will be essential in identifying opportunities for automation and optimization throughout the product lifecycle.

This role provides a unique opportunity to work into a dynamic team, fully empowered to propose and implement innovative ideas enabling and leveraging AI, ML concepts. This role will also provide hands-on experience on collaborating with diverse vendors and major internal & external stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Digital Product Delivery

• Analysis and refinement of user stories and epics with focus on the business area of research and early development

• Collaborate with laboratory scientists, researchers, and technical teams to understand requirements for lab automation

• Translate business needs into clear, actionable user stories and epics

• Facilitate requirements gathering workshops and stakeholder interviews

• Document and maintain business process flows and system requirements

• Bridge the gap between scientific/laboratory operations and IT/digital teams

• Support agile development processes and participate in sprint planning and reviews

• Validate solutions meet business requirements and user needs

• Identify opportunities for process improvement and automation

• Ensure requirements traceability throughout the development lifecycle

• Support change management and user adoption activities

Demand Intake & Management

• Analyze business needs and coordinate between stakeholder groups to address them and deliver prompt, efficient, quality features

• Create prototypes and codesign innovative solutions

• Proactively monitor industry, functional, and technology trends

• Work with Digital and Business stakeholders to elicit high-level requirements and capture business needs; understand the customer journey and define user requirements

• Engage with Digital and Business stakeholders and influence project decisions; assess the risks of various solutions and prioritize competing business demands

• Promote architectural consistency and usability standards; define and execute test cases

• Leverage data and facts to identify patterns, uses judgment to form conclusions that may challenge conventional wisdom, and focuses on the issues to identify high leverage intervention points and strategies

Innovation & Team Culture

• Stay current on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in product management and data analytics

• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning within the product team

Experience

7+ years of experience in product management and business analysis, preferably in pharmaceutical, biotech, or commercialization environments

Skills

• Fluent in English (written and verbal) for effective international collaboration

• Strong communication skills with proven ability to effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels of the organization

• Proven experience in Agile software development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) with demonstrated track record of working in agile environments

• Experience with common Agile tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence)

• Excellent team working skills with ability to collaborate effectively in cross-functional, international teams

• Experience facilitating workshops, leading discussions, and presenting to senior stakeholders with confidence and clarity

• Strong knowledge of at least one key area (regulatory affairs, pharmacovigilance, medical affairs, or medical information) in pharmaceutical commercialization environments, with willingness to develop understanding across other areas

• Experience with Pharma SaaS platforms such as Veeva Vault modules, IQVIA solutions, or regulatory submission systems, with demonstrated proficiency in at least one of these platforms

• Strong business analysis skills including requirements elicitation, documentation, and management

• Excellent stakeholder management capabilities

• Ability to translate complex regulatory and safety requirements into technical specifications

• Experience with at least one of the following: Veeva Vault modules, IQVIA platforms, Argus Safety, document management systems, or GenAI-powered authoring tools

• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and adapt to new pharmaceutical domains and their associated systems, with experience in at least one LMP product line (GRA, PSPV, Medical Affairs, Medical Information, GenAI Document Authoring, or MA&D)

• Experience developing products with Agile methodologies a must

Pursue Progress. 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.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!

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 and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!