As an Operational Change Management expert, you play a pivotal role in ensuring successful transformations and modernizations across the organization. This is a high-impact leadership position requiring cross-functional collaboration to ensure change adoption and efficacy while building transformation readiness throughout the organization. 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.;

Key Expert responsibilities would include:

- Lead Development and Implementation of Change Strategies: Leverage a structured methodology to define and own the change management strategies and plans that maximize employee adoption and usage of required changes utilizing the standard Sanofi Change Management playbook and approaches.
- Build a trusted relationship with the Project/Program Manager and support him/her through the project/program as a credible voice on change management matters.
- Identify and engage key stakeholders, ensuring their buy-in and support throughout the change process for complex initiatives involving multiples organizations and geographies.
- Conduct in-depth change impact analyses, assessing organizational readiness across multiple dimensions (process, technology, culture, capability).
- Design targeted and actionable change management plans based on deep diagnosis of impacted populations, their concerns, and resistance patterns.
- Develop and execute robust communication strategies across all channels, tailoring messages for diverse audiences from frontline employees to leadership team.
- Drive Adoption and Measure change Management effectiveness: Define and track KPIs and success metrics for change adoption, utilization, and proficiency




- Implement data-driven approaches to monitor adoption before, during, and after go-live
- Develop and execute mitigation plans to address resistance and accelerate adoption
- Ensure sustained adoption through structured hypercare and reinforcement strategies
- Report on change effectiveness to senior leadership, providing actionable insights and recommendations
- Lead the execution of the change management plans (including communication content creation)
- Prepare, Present and communicate creative material with clarity, effectively selling ideas to a variety of internal stakeholders
- Design, develop, deliver, and manage key communications across all channels and platforms and any other activities fostering adoption of the change. Pursue this support over the hypercare period to secure robust change adoption
- Build, mobilize and manage a Change Agent Network across impacted business areas accountable for function-level adoption targets, structured user awareness and post-go-live adoption tracking
- Mitigate Risks and Ensure Preparedness: Assess and mitigate risks associated with change initiatives.
- Ensure employees are adequately prepared for upcoming changes.

About you

Experience: A minimum of 5 years experience in Pharmaceutical R&D;, with understanding of R&D;, clinical development and regulatory environments

Strong knowledge and Experience in owning & leading Change Management (min 4 years), Communications and/or Marketing, in complex, matrixed organizations

Project management skills/experience is desired.

Education:

o Bachelor's Degree or the equivalent in Life Sciences, Business, Communication, Marketing or a related field,

o Certification in change management required (e.g., Prosci, ACMP);

o Familiarities with artificial intelligence and its application in change management is a plus

Languages: Excellent communications skills, both verbal and written in English. French is a plus.

📌 R&D Change Management Expert (Hyderabad)
🏢 Sanofi
📍 Hyderabad