Position Title: Product Owner Corporate
Location: Hyderabad
Job Summary
The Product Owner Data Corporate serves as the strategic leader and primary bridge requirements and Agile delivery teams within the Data & Insights Excellence department. This role drives an Agile squad of developers, ensuring consistent product vision, backlog quality, and value delivery across the portfolio. The role owns end-to-end product strategy, drives backlog management, roadmap constraints and digital capabilities, and fosters a high-performing product ownership culture grounded in Sanofi's values.
Key Responsibilities
1. Team Leadership
• Drive a delivery squad in Agile culture aligned with Sanofi values and ensure safe environment
• Lead by example through active participation in day-to-day product operations, backlog refinement, and stakeholder engagement
2. Product Vision & Strategy
• Define and communicate a coherent, inspiring product vision across the Corporate data portfolio
• Align roadmaps and maintain a clear, well-structured, and prioritized with Business product backlog
• Translate high-level strategic objectives into actionable product goals and measurable outcomes
3. Business Partnership & Stakeholder Management & Prioritization
• Build and sustain strategic relationships with senior business stakeholders across functions and geographies and participate in prioritization discussions
• Represent the product team in executive forums, governance committees, and cross-functional leadership meetings
• Ensure consistent backlog hygiene standards across with appropriate escalation paths for complex or high-impact items
4. Agile Delivery Oversight
• Collaborate closely with Scrum Masters and delivery teams to ensure smooth sprint planning and execution of Agile
• Identify, escalate, and resolve impediments that block delivery or reduce team effectiveness
• Monitor velocity, delivery quality, and team health metrics across
5. Portfolio & Roadmap Management
• Define portfolio health metrics, KPIs, and manage risks across the Data & Insights product landscape
• Ensure strategic alignment between roadmap commitments, team capacity, and evolving business priorities
• Provide transparent, data-driven portfolio reporting to senior leadership and governance bodies
6. Governance & Communication
• Lead product review meetings, steering committees, and executive-level communications
• Manage stakeholder expectations with full transparency, proactively surfacing risks and trade-offs
• Produce clear, compelling communications tailored to both technical and non-technical audiences
7. Continuous Improvement & Practice Development
• Define and drive the roadmap for product ownership practice maturity within the team, promoting best practices
• Stay current with industry trends in data, AI, and digital transformation
• Benchmark internal practices against industry standards
About You
Education
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business, or a related field
Experience
• Demonstrated experience managing complex digital or data product portfolios in global organization
Skills & Competencies
Team Leadership
Data & Technical Fluency in data, BI, AI
Business Acumen on Finance processes
Stakeholder Management
Communication verbal/written in English
Process Management
Tools & Systems like ServiceNow, Jira
What We Offer
• Senior leadership role shaping Sanofi's Data journey at a global pharmaceutical leader
• Collaborative environment with cutting-edge technologies and people analytics platforms
• Direct exposure to senior/executive leadership with strategic influence over various initiatives
• Work with diverse, talented teams across multiple countries and cultures
About Sanofi
Sanofi is a global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to supporting people through their health challenges, committed to chasing the miracles of science to improve people's lives. Our team across 100 countries transforms the practice of medicine, providing life-changing treatments and life-saving vaccines to millions globally, with sustainability and social responsibility at the center of our ambitions.
Pursue progress, discover extraordinaryBetter 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 and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business, or a related field
- Experience managing complex digital or data product portfolios in a global organization
- Team leadership experience
- Data and technical fluency in data, business intelligence, and artificial intelligence
- Business acumen related to finance processes
- Stakeholder management skills
- Strong verbal and written English communication skills
- Process management skills
- Experience with ServiceNow and Jira
Sanofi Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sanofi and has not been reviewed or approved by Sanofi.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support stands out through a notably strong 401K matching structure (e.g., 150% match up to a 6% contribution), which materially boosts total rewards for long-tenured employees.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental and family support is positioned as unusually robust, including a global gender-neutral paid parental leave standard (14 weeks) and added supports such as childcare assistance and adoption/surrogacy/infertility help.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity participation is made more accessible via an Employee Stock Purchase Plan that includes a meaningful purchase discount and matching/free-share mechanics, increasing perceived total compensation beyond base pay.
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What We Do
We are Sanofi, an innovative global healthcare company. We chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. Our team, across some 100 countries, is dedicated to transforming the practice of medicine by working to turn the impossible into the possible. We provide potentially life-changing treatment options and life-saving vaccine protection to millions of people globally, while putting sustainability and social responsibility at the center of our ambitions. Interactions with this account must comply with the Terms: https://bit.ly/sanofi-terms
