People Business Partner, Specialty Care

Company: Sanofi
Location: Cambridge
Posted on: March 13, 2026

Job Description:

Job title : People Business Partner, Specialty Care Location: Cambridge, MA About the Job Ready to push the limits of whats possible? Join Sanofi in one of our corporate functions and you can play a vital part in the performance of our entire business while helping to make an impact on millions around the world. The People Business Partner for Specialty Care serves as a highly strategic advisor and enterprise leader who partners closely with country/regional leadership teams and senior business leaders across the GBU or GF. This role contributes directly to the development of business strategy and is accountable for translating that strategy into impactful, forwardlooking people and organizational solutions. The PBP operates with a heightened degree of complexity and influence leading transformational talent, organization, and culture initiatives; shaping strategic workforce investments; and advising senior executives on highstakes decisions that enable longterm competitive advantage. The ideal candidate is a bold, futurefocused HR leader who challenges the status quo, brings innovative and digitalfirst thinking, and demonstrates the Sanofi Take the Lead Behaviors. About Sanofi: Were an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving peoples lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system and innovative pipeline enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve peoples lives. Main Responsibilities: People Strategy & Senior Leadership Advisory Serve as strategic thought partner to senior business leaders, shaping and influencing business strategy through deep people, organization, and culture insights. Translate complex business strategy into integrated people plans that drive enterprise and GBU/GF priorities. Act as a key representative of the GBU/GF within enterprise People & Culture forums, ensuring unique business needs influence global policy and solution design. Talent Management & Enterprise Capability Building Lead enterprise-level talent strategy development for the client group, including advanced succession planning, executive talent discussions, and futurefocused capability building. Coach senior leaders in assessing talent, building sustainable pipelines, and creating growth, career, and mobility opportunities for top and emerging talent. Drive achievement of diversity and crossfunctional mobility goals; advocate for bold, differentiated talent moves. Implement advanced assessment frameworks to identify highpotential leaders able to operate in complex, matrixed, or allianceinfluenced environments. Organizational Design & Transformation Lead largescale organizational design efforts, ensuring structures, decision rights, and operating models support agility, competitiveness, and longterm growth. Serve as the architect for complex business transformations. Champion Sanofis change methodology, coaching senior leaders to effectively lead, sustain, and communicate change. Culture, Inclusion & Experience (CIE) and Leadership Effectiveness Accelerate the Take the Lead culture transformation through leadership coaching and targeted interventions. Coach senior executives on team effectiveness, leadership behaviors, and organizational health. Strategic Workforce Planning Partner with Global COE to shape longterm SWP strategies, integrating market insights and capability trends. Guide leaders through scenario planning. Provide thought leadership on future of work and evolving workforce models. Talent Acquisition & Market Competitiveness Anticipate critical talent needs and partner with the TA COE. Challenge hiring decisions to ensure diversity and topquality selection. Leverage competitive intelligence and market benchmarking. Performance Management & Compensation Strategy Lead performance and total rewards processes. Provide strategic counsel on complex compensation decisions. Promote performance differentiation. HighStakes Employee Relations & Risk Management Serve as escalation point for complex employee relations matters. Partner with Legal, Compliance, and ER COE. Manage investigations, separations, and restructurings. Learning, Leadership & Organizational Development Partner with Learning COE and senior leaders on capability roadmaps. Design leadership development experiences. Coach senior leaders. Digital HR, AIEnabled Insights & Workforce Analytics Leverage advanced people analytics. Champion adoption of AI and digital HR technologies. Use data to generate insights that shape organizational health and talent strategies. About You Education Bachelors degree required; Masters preferred. Experience A minimum of 12 years of progressive HR experience. Proven track record advising senior executives. Demonstrated success leading largescale organizational transformations. Experience in highgrowth, matrixed, or specialty care environments. Experience with alliance/joint ventures preferred. Key Competencies Strategic enterprise thinking Executive presence and seniorlevel influence Organizational design & transformation expertise Advanced analytics and problemsolving Digital fluency and comfort with AI tools Leadership coaching and relationship building Agility and comfort with ambiguity Strong Culture, Inclusion & Experience (CIE) orientation 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 its 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. GD-SA LI-SA LI-Onsite vhd All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.

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