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The key focus is on the people side of change, preparing, supporting, and equipping employees to adopt and use changes related to business processes, systems, technology, job roles, and organizational structures across Sanofi R&D. He/she will work closely with R&D Change Management specialists as they support the plans and creation of materials.\nKey Expert responsibilities would include:\nLead Development and Implementation of Change Strategies:\nLeverage a structured methodology to create change management strategies and plans that maximize employee adoption and usage of required changes utilizing the standard Sanofi Change Management playbook and approaches.\nIdentify and engage key stakeholders, ensuring their buy-in and support throughout the change process\nAnticipate and minimize resistance from impacted employees and stakeholders.\nDrive Adoption and Proficiency:\nIncrease adoption, utilization, and proficiency with changes, ultimately enhancing benefit realization, ROI, and outcomes.\nEngage with global senior leaders, executives, people managers, and project teams to integrate change management activities.\nAssess Impact and Support Communication: Conduct impact analyses and assess change readiness.\nIdentify and monitor the adoption before and after go live\nBased on these metrics, develop action plans to mitigate resistance and enhance adoption\nLead the execution of the change management plans\nProvide leadership; oversight; guidance; mentorship to change mgmt. specialists as they support your leadership change management efforts\nPresent and communicate creative material with clarity, effectively selling ideas to a variety of internal stakeholders\nDrive the design, development, delivery, and management of key communications and any other activities fostering adoption of the change. Pursue this support over the hypercare period to secure strong change adoption\nMitigate Risks and Ensure Preparedness:\nAssess and mitigate risks associated with change initiatives.\nEnsure employees are adequately prepared for upcoming changes.\nMeasure change management effectiveness:\nMonitor the effectiveness of change activities and report on progress and outcomes.\nAbout you\nExperience: Experience in owning & leading Change Management, Communications and/or Marketing, preferably in the pharmaceutical field is desired. Project management skills/experience is desired.\nSoft and technical skills:Leadership & meeting presence to build quick trust & credibility\nA solid understanding of pharmaceutical processes, product development, and regulatory requirements.\nFamiliarity with drug development stages, clinical trials, and manufacturing processes.\nProficiency in change management principles, methodologies, and best practices.\nAbility to assess the impact of changes on processes, systems, and personnel.\nExcellent verbal and written communication to convey change-related information effectively.\nAbility to engage stakeholders, manage expectations, and address concerns.\nStrong problem-solving skills to evaluate proposed changes and their implications.\nCapacity to identify risks, benefits, and potential obstacles.\nExperience working cross-functionally with teams, including R&D, quality, and regulatory affairs.\nAbility to influence and guide stakeholders toward successful change adoption.\nComfort with evolving processes and changing priorities during product development.\nAgility to handle frequent adjustments and updates.\n\n Education: Bachelor's Degree or the equivalent in Life Sciences, Business, Communication, Marketing or a related field, Certification in change management (e.g., Prosci, ACMP) is a plus ; Familiarities with artificial intelligence would be a plus\nLanguages: Excellent communications skills, both verbal and written in English. French and German are a plus.\nPursue progress, discover extraordinary\nBetter 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.\nAt 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.\nWatch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!","description_format":"text","description_chars":4919,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Equity"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"India","iso":"IN","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Prescription Drugs","Vaccines","Rare Disease Therapeutics","Immunology & Inflammation Therapeutics"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-27T17:48:00Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":20,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-28T05:59:10Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/sanofi-rd-change-management-expert","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/sanofi-rd-change-management-expert.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-28T21:28:06Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":29629,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-29T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":146},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=146"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fsanofi-rd-change-management-expert"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fsanofi-rd-change-management-expert"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fsanofi-rd-change-management-expert"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/sanofi-rd-change-management-expert\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fsanofi-rd-change-management-expert"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3348052}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"sanofi.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3348052},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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