Job Title: Product Lead - Jobs and Skills

Location: Bridgewater, NJ OR Cambridge, MA

About the Job

At Sanofi, we’re committed to providing the next-gen healthcare that patients and customers need. It’s about harnessing data insights and leveraging AI responsibly to search deeper and solve sooner than ever before. Join our Product Line - People & Culture Team as Product Lead - Jobs & Skills and you can help make it happen. Your job? As the Product Lead, Jobs & Skills, you will play a pivotal role in our Digital initiatives around Jobs, Skills, and Skills Taxonomy. This role will focus designing, implementing, and optimizing the Jobs and Skills modules and skills taxonomy within Workday and third party tools using Skills data while aligning them with our talent strategies, workforce planning, and career development needs. As the Product Lead, you will own the product roadmap and governance, work closely with stakeholders, and drive the development and management of a comprehensive skills taxonomy framework.

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:

• Product Vision and Roadmap : Define and maintain the strategic roadmap for Jobs, Skills, and Skills Taxonomy modules, ensuring alignment with organizational goals for talent development and workforce planning.

• Stakeholder Engagement : Collaborate with HR, Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, and other business leaders to understand their needs and gather requirements related to jobs, skills, and skills taxonomy.

• Skills Taxonomy Design and Implementation : Lead the design, development, and management of a skills taxonomy within Workday that aligns with career paths, competency frameworks, and organizational standards, and supports effective skill tracking and talent mobility.

• Requirements Gathering and Documentation : Translate business needs into detailed functional requirements and user stories for development and configuration teams, with a focus on Jobs, Skills, and Skills Taxonomy.

• Project Management and Execution : Oversee projects related to Workday or third party tools using Jobs, Skills, and Skills Taxonomy modules, ensuring timely and efficient delivery of new features, enhancements, and process improvements.

• Continuous Improvement and Best Practices : Skills digital ecosystem is still new, it is key to stay up-to-date on markets latest Jobs, Skills, and Skills Taxonomy features, as well as industry best practices, to ensure our systems are optimized and relevant to business needs. Sanofi is leveraging SaaS application, release management is also an important part of the job.

• Data Analysis and Reporting : Partner with data teams to monitor and analyze workforce and skills data, identifying trends, gaps, and opportunities that inform strategic workforce planning and talent development. Skills data are used everywhere, a strong understanding of integrations, data architecture and data modeling is key.

• User Adoption and Support : Work with HRIS and Learning & Development teams to provide training materials and support for end-users, ensuring high adoption rates and effective usage of Jobs, Skills, and Skills Taxonomy features.

• Change Management : Lead change management efforts, guiding stakeholders through new processes and tools to encourage adoption and ease transition into enhanced Jobs and Skills functionalities.

About You

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Human Resources, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.

• Experience:

• 3+ years of experience in a Product Owner, HRIS, or related role, with specific experience in skills taxonomy development, talent management principles, and workforce planning.

• Proven experience managing product roadmaps, gathering requirements, and delivering enhancements in HR Tech platforms.

• Proficiency with agile methodologies, including writing user stories, defining acceptance criteria, and managing backlogs.

• Proven experience with jobs and skills technologies, with a strong track record of implementing products such as Eightfold, Beamery, SkyHive, Cornerstone, or Workday Skills Cloud.

• Technical Skills: Strong understanding of Workday's job architecture, security model, and data classification standards, in addition to having a deep understanding of data models used to store and automate workflows for jobs, skills, and other talent management uses.

• Analytical Skills: Ability to analyze and identify effective end to end solutions.

• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Collaboration: Strong stakeholder management and interpersonal skills and a proven ability to work collaboratively across global and heavily matrixed teams.

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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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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkpDBZ-CJKw&t=67s) and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com (https://www.sanofi.com/en/our-responsibility/equality-and-inclusiveness) !

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Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally inclusive and diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; natural or protective hairstyles; 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.

Sanofi is dedicated to supporting people through their health challenges. We are a global biopharmaceutical company focused on human health. We prevent illness with vaccines, provide innovative treatments to fight pain and ease suffering. We stand by the few who suffer from rare diseases and the millions with long-term chronic conditions.

With more than 100,000 people in 100 countries, Sanofi is transforming scientific innovation into healthcare solutions around the globe. Discover more about us visiting www.sanofi.com or via our movie We are Sanofi (https://youtu.be/96EwNjb1TLo)

As an organization, we change the practice of medicine; reinvent the way we work; and enable people to be their best versions in career and life. We are constantly moving and growing, making sure our people grow with us. Our working environment helps us build a dynamic and inclusive workplace operating on trust and respect and allows employees to live the life they want to live.

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