**R2834811 Global Product Owner** **Department:** Digital Portfolio and Governance **About the Job** Ready to grow your skills while helping shape the future of healthcare? At Sanofi, you’ll be empowered to learn, ask questions, and bring your ideas to life – all while supported by inspiring mentors and collaborative teams. Sanofi spends hundreds of millions annually on software licenses—yet visibility into what we own, use, and need remains fragmented. Today, license data lives across disconn is reactive, and optimization happens manually. Tomorrow, **License Patrol** will deliver a single, intelligent platform that continuously discovers, tracks, optimizes, and governs every software asset. As **Global Product Owner** , you will shape the vision, drive the roadmap, and lead delivery of a product that transforms software spend into strategic value—ensuring compliance, eliminating waste, and enabling-driven decisions across IT, Finance. **About Sanofi:** We’re an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s 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 people’s lives. **Main Responsibilities:** What you will lead **Define the Global Vision — Intelligent Software Asset Optimization** + Set the direction for continuous, automated software asset visibility an management. + Champion a platform where IT, Procurement, Finance, and Legal teams access real-time insights into license entitlements, usage, compliance gaps, and optimization opportunities. + Anchor product strategy in measurable outcomes: audit readiness, cost avoidance, license harvesting, vendor consolidation, and risk mitigation. **Build and Own the Product Roadmap** Prioritize capabilities that modernize Software Asset Management: + **Automated discovery and inventory** across cloud, on-premise, and SaaS environments + **License entitlement vs. usage analytics** with AI-powered optimization recommendations + **Compliance dashboards and audit readiness** reporting + **License harvesting and reclamation** workflows + **Vendor relationship insights** (renewal forecasting, contract alignment, risk scoring) + **Integration with ITSM, procurement, and finance systems** for seamless lifecycle management + **Proactive alerts** for license expirations, over/under-deployment, and compliance risks + Align roadmap globally across ITSec, and vendor management teams. **Deliver Incremental Value Every Sprint** + Manage the backlog with clarity and discipline—prioritizing high-impact, high-visibility wins. + Work hand-in-hand with delivery teams to break complexity into deployable increments. + Ensure reduced license spend, faster audit response, improved compliance scores, or increased license utilization rates. **Enable Global Cross-Functional Partnership** + Bring together IT asset managers, procurement category leads, finance controllers, compliance officers, and vendor teams across regions. + Ensure the product connects software inventory data, procurement contracts, financial actuals, and usage telemetry in a consistent, global view. + Communicate simply and confidently at VP/C-level to secure funding, alignment, and adoption across geographies and functions. **Drived Insights and Automation** Use AI and advanced analytics to build: + **Predictive license demand models** based on historical usage and business growth + **Automated compliance scoring** with risk-based prioritization + **Smart harvesting recommendations** to reclaim unused licenses + **Vendor spend optimization** insights (consolidation opportunities, negotiation leverage) + **Proactive renewal alerts and workflows** integrated with procurement and finance + Champion modern AI tooling to accelerate data enrichment, anomaly detection, and decision support. **About You** + **Deep experience** in digital product ownership, enterprise SaaS, or IT asset/license management platforms. + **Strong understanding** of software asset management, license compliance, vendor IT financial management (ITFM). + **Skilled in Lean/Agile methodologies** , user-centered design, and data-driven prioritization. + **Proven ability** to influence senior stakeholders—CFOs, CIOs, Procurement VPs—and drive cross-functional alignment in complex, global organizations. + **Curious and confident** using AI tools, analytics platforms, and emerging technologies for automation and insights. + Bachelor's degree with 3-5 years of experience digital product ownership. **Preferred** + Experience with SAM (e.g., Flexera, Snow, ServiceNow SAM, Aspera) or ITAM frameworks 19770, ITIL). + Background in IT procurement, software vendor negotiations, or audit models (AWS, Azure, Microsoft 365, Oracle, SAP). **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 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 + **Lead a flagship global product** that directly impacts Sanofi's bottom line—unlocking millions in cost avoidance and optimization annually. + **Build an experience** that blends intelligent automation, real-time compliance monitoring, and actionable insights ford business leaders. + **Work in a diverse, ambitious environment** driving Sanofi's digital transformation and operational excellence. + **Shape a product with direct business impact** —reducing audit risk, eliminating software negotiations, and enabling strategic IT investment decisions. + **Grow your career** in a company committed to innovation, inclusion, and meaningful progress—where technology enables breakthroughs in healthcare. This position is for a current vacant role that we are actively hiring for.​ Sanofi is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. Our goal is to attract, develop and retain highly talented employees from diverse backgrounds, allowing us to benefit from a wide variety of experiences and perspectives. We welcome and encourage applications from all qualified applicants. Accommodations for persons with disabilities required during the recruitment process are available upon request. \#GD-SP ​ \#LI-SP \#LI-Hybrid \#DBBCA **Pursue** **_progress_** **, discover** **_extraordinary_** Better 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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkpDBZ-CJKw&t=67s) and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com (https://www.sanofi.com/en/our-responsibility/equality-and-inclusiveness) ! _North America Applicants Only_ The salary range for this position is: $125,300.00 - $180,966.66 All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs. Additional benefits information can be found through the LINK (https://myflex-benefits.ca/en/home/) . La fourchette salariale pour ce poste est la suivante: $125,300.00 - $180,966.66 Toute compensation sera déterminée en fonction de l'expérience démontrée. Les employés peuvent être admissibles à participer aux programmes d'avantages sociau de l'enterprise. Des informations supplémentaires sur les avantages sont disponibles via le lien (https://myflex-benefits.ca/fr/home/) . Global Terms & Conditions and Data Privacy Statement (https://www.sanofi.com/en/careers/global-terms-and-conditions/) Sanofi is dedicated to supporting people through their health challenges. We are a global biopharmaceutical company focused on human health. We prevent illness with vaccines, provide innovative treatments to fight pain and ease suffering. We stand by the few who suffer from rare diseases and the millions with long-term chronic conditions. With more than 100,000 people in 100 countries, Sanofi is transforming scientific innovation into healthcare solutions around the globe. Discover more about us visiting www.sanofi.com or via our movie We are Sanofi (https://youtu.be/96EwNjb1TLo) As an organization, we change the practice of medicine; reinvent the way we work; and enable people to be their best versions in career and life. We are constantly moving and growing, making sure our people grow with us. Our working environment helps us build a dynamic and inclusive workplace operating on trust and respect and allows employees to live the life they want to live. All in for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Sanofi - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkpDBZ-CJKw&t=2s)