Organization Design Consultant Lead

Reporting to the Global Head of Organization Design & Effectiveness, this position will lead and/or support designing, implementing, and optimizing cutting-edge organizational development practices that will contribute to the achievement of the company's short- and long-term goals.  

Acting as a trusted consultant to People & Culture (P&C), Business leaders and People Business Partners (PBPs), the incumbent will provide expert guidance and implementation support on organizational capability and strategic workforce planning, organizational design, enterprise transformation, and culture development. This role will animate activities to provide the infrastructure to develop and execute organization design initiatives across multiple geographies or business units/functions (GBU/GF). As a member of the P&C Strategy and Portfolio CoE, the incumbent will be expected to work in close partnership with business leaders, project teams, and the rest of the P&C community across the geographies.   

The incumbent will be strategic, knowledgeable about people & culture (human resources), organizational design practices, capability assessments, strategic workforce planning and enterprise transformation. Previous experience in global, regional, and country roles is highly preferred. 

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

Main Responsibilities: 

• Partner with key project or business/function leaders to understand needs and deliver our organization design and effectiveness capability to the organization for large-scale transformations, projects and initiatives. 

• Collaborate with enterprise or global business unit/function (GBU/GF) stakeholders to create strategies that align with business goals and cultural values, including priority setting, decision-making and monitoring/tracking.   

• Serve as an OD consulting lead on projects—identifying organization design implications and recommend actions. 

• Execute organizational assessments to understand future state needs, gather data and feedback to track progress, partner with country P&C on social processes, where needed, and provide insights to guide continuous improvement. 

• Develop comprehensive materials that support impacted audience groups and aid understanding of the organization design process, including development of detailed implementation plans, future state visualizations, and role definitions. 

• Participate in our network of Organization Development Heads in the GBUs/GFs to support projects, initiatives and methodologies. 

• Contribute to our internal organization design capability for P&C including development of guides, playbooks, methodologies, etc., and support the upskilling of our P&C community where needed. 

About You  

• Bachelor’s degree.  

• Minimum of 5 years of experience, ideally working on organization design and effectiveness initiatives.  International exposure is desirable. 

• A blend of consulting and/or in-house/industry work experience preferred 

• Knowledgeable in strategic workforce planning, organization design and effectiveness methodologies and tools, including modelling tools 

• Ability to manage initiatives in a cross-functional organization while being flexible and adaptable to work in ambiguous situations. 

• Ability to work successfully in multicultural teams and to build and maintain strong relationships with key local and global stakeholders. 

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both written and verbal) to clearly articulate key messages to a variety of audiences. 

• Ability to practice efficient time management and coordinate tasks, working in an international environment across time zones. 

• Analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make data-driven decisions. 

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with business acumen. 

• Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. 

• Fluent in English; French is a plus 

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.

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse 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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