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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, forward‑looking 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 high‑stakes decisions that enable long‑term competitive advantage. The ideal candidate is a bold, future‑focused HR leader who challenges the status quo, brings innovative and digital‑first thinking, and demonstrates the Sanofi Take the Lead Behaviors.
Job Responsibility:
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
Lead enterprise-level talent strategy development for the client group, including advanced succession planning, executive talent discussions, and future‑focused 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 cross‑functional mobility goals
advocate for bold, differentiated talent moves
Implement advanced assessment frameworks to identify high‑potential leaders able to operate in complex, matrixed, or alliance‑influenced environments
Lead large‑scale organizational design efforts, ensuring structures, decision rights, and operating models support agility, competitiveness, and long‑term growth
Serve as the architect for complex business transformations
Champion Sanofi’s change methodology, coaching senior leaders to effectively lead, sustain, and communicate change
Accelerate the Take the Lead culture transformation through leadership coaching and targeted interventions
Coach senior executives on team effectiveness, leadership behaviors, and organizational health
Partner with Global COE to shape long‑term SWP strategies, integrating market insights and capability trends
Guide leaders through scenario planning
Provide thought leadership on future of work and evolving workforce models
Anticipate critical talent needs and partner with the TA COE
Challenge hiring decisions to ensure diversity and top‑quality selection
Leverage competitive intelligence and market benchmarking
Lead performance and total rewards processes
Provide strategic counsel on complex compensation decisions
Promote performance differentiation
Serve as escalation point for complex employee relations matters
Partner with Legal, Compliance, and ER COE
Manage investigations, separations, and restructurings
Partner with Learning COE and senior leaders on capability roadmaps
Design leadership development experiences
Coach senior leaders
Leverage advanced people analytics
Champion adoption of AI and digital HR technologies
Use data to generate insights that shape organizational health and talent strategies
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree required
Master’s preferred
A minimum of 12 years of progressive HR experience
Proven track record advising senior executives
Demonstrated success leading large‑scale organizational transformations
Experience in high‑growth, matrixed, or specialty care environments
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