Global Head of Procurement Services

Job title: Global Head of Procurement Services

Location: Gentilly

About the job

Our Team:

Sanofi is a global integrated healthcare leader focused on patients’ needs with a diversified offer of medicines, vaccines, and innovative therapeutics solutions, engaged in the research, development, manufacturing, and marketing of healthcare products.

Today, our footprint extends to 90 countries, with more than 91,000 employees perpetuating this legacy and united under the common purpose of chasing the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.We’re now on course to transform the practice of medicine through breakthrough science and make a positive impact on our people and the communities we serve.

The Role:

As we continue to transform the practice of medicine, the next chapter of Sanofi’s Take the Lead strategy will require a focus on delivering transformation and simplification of our core processes, optimizing resource allocation and deployment to fuel business growth and investment in science.

To facilitate this transformation, a new Business Operations Business Unit is being established, bringing together existing business service activities, and driving further expansion of centralized services at scale into a global unit, with a focus on driving simplification, efficiency, and productivity.

This new Business Unit will enable the delivery of best-in-class business support capabilities across the organization, incorporating and engaging disparate teams from across areas such as R&D, M&S, the Corporate Functions and GBUs into new global Service Delivery Towers with initial services spanning Commercial, Finance, Procurement and People & Culture.

Reporting to the Executive Vice President and Head of Business Operations, the Global Head of Procurement Services plays a critical role in the development, execution and transformation of both Sanofi’s Business Operations and Procurement Strategies.

As Head of Procurement Services, the incumbent will partner closely with the Head of Business Operations and the Chief Procurement Officer and his leadership to lead a team of shared service and procurement professionals focused on driving the implementation of simple, standard and efficient procurement services, unlocking value and enhancing productivity through innovation, scale and delivery excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

Partner with the Chief Procurement Officer and Procurement Leadership team to: (a) develop a structured and well-defined enterprise Procurement strategy; (b) define and embed to-be agreed target operating model and governance framework, including roles, responsibilities, and ownership accountabilities; and (c) establish a standard set of functional-level performance metrics and service-line specific KPIs to measure Progress and value delivery.

• Lead Procurement Services organization of ~600-650 Sanofians and oversee efforts of strategic BPO partner responsible for the delivery and execution of Sanofi’s Business Operations and Procurement strategy; grow operational footprint in-line with broader GBO and Hub operating model, leveraging existing Hub locations in Bogota, Budapest, Hyderabad and Kuala Lumpur

• Productivity Initiatives – develop and run formal program and process for identifying enterprise-wide savings opportunities and prospective new services leveraging advanced analytics, process mining and other innovative techniques; partner with GBO Business Partnership & Transformation lead to transition into implementation then drive and track value and benefits delivery.

• Source to Pay – lead the design, development, implementation, and ongoing execution of enterprise Source to Pay transformation, driving best-in-class simplification of global end-to-end process excellence in partnership with Finance and Procurement, including sourcing lifecycle management, contracting, vendor master data management, indirect purchasing, invoice reception and processing, payments, travel and expense management, tail spend management and supplier relationship management.

• Digital, AI and Automation – define and lead the next phase of Procurement Services evolution, driving the digitalization and agentification of transactional and operational processes through AI, intelligent automation and emerging technologies; partner with Digital and GBO Transformation teams to design, deploy and scale AI-enabled solutions across Source to Pay, ensuring robust governance, control and measurable value delivery.

• Contract and Compliance Management – establish a simple and standard global end-to-end contract life cycle management process for 3rd party contracts; govern and oversee supplier performance through the transition and ongoing growth of supplier contract compliance and audit progra