Patient Privacy Officer & Counsel

About the job

Join the engine of Sanofi’s mission — where deep immunoscience meets bold, AI-powered research. In R&D, you’ll drive breakthroughs that could turn the impossible into possible for millions. Are you ready to shape the future of medicine? The race is on to speed up drug discovery and development to find answers for patients and their families. Your skills could be critical in helping our teams accelerate Progress. Join our Privacy team as a Patient Privacy Officer to shape the Sanofi Privacy strategy towards Patients, preventing risks to materialize, protecting Patients fundamental rights whilst enabling trustworthy innovation. We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible.

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

• Act as a global officer and expert on Data Privacy, promoting and maintaining a culture of privacy at every stage of the patients data life cycle, mastering TRT (Thoughtful Risk Taking) and a Patient centric approach
• Be the business partner for several R&D and/or Medical departments, having end-to-end accountability to drive all privacy activities within your area, from driving privacy-by-Design of new projects to the effective monitoring and reporting of the risk management strategies to senior R&D leaders
• Drive transversal privacy initiatives to foster responsible use of patient data, informed by patient perspectives, ethical and regulatory standards, and cross-functional alignment to protect patient rights and maintain trust while enabling innovation
• Monitor privacy risks in your area
• Partner with the local Privacy Officers and Legal teams in ensuring the Global Patients initiatives you support are compliant with local practices and regulations, and offering local resolutions
• Co-author internal position papers with Legal, R&D and Government Affairs, representing Sanofi in industry advocacy efforts with Trade associations, Patient Associations Groups and Data Protection Regulators
• Oversee patients rights requests coming from your respective areas, ensuring patients’ rights are upheld in line with regulatory requirements and Sanofi’s commitments to privacy
• Drive the effective closure of action plans originating from regulatory inspections and internal audits

Qualifications

• Juris Doctorate (JD) degree from an accredited law school, (or an equivalent advanced degree in law) and a valid license to practice law in the US
• Minimum of 7 years of professional experience, including significant experience in data privacy
• In depth knowledge of U.S. State and federal privacy laws/regulations: California Consumer Privacy Act, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, familiarity with AI regulations and ethical frameworks
• Relevant privacy certification: CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM or equivalent is preferred
• Excellent understanding and working experience of the R&D journey of a new drug from the definition of the drug candidate to product registration and safety, in a regulated research and development setting (i.e. subject to Good Clinical Practices)
• Demonstrated experience in applying privacy principles and regulations in Research and Development, additional experience in patient programs if a plus
• Proven crisis leadership with strong accountability, and the ability to navigate tensions, align stakeholders, and drive coordinated action toward resolution
• Solid communication skills and stakeholder management to establish credibility and drive decision making with senior internal stakeholders, balancing authority (executive presence) with solutions orientation
• Advanced advocacy skills with external stakeholders (regulators and industry peers) to influence future regulations and shape Healthcare ecosystem
• Ability to translate how the regulatory, societal and technological changes in biomedical research are impacting the patient privacy risk profile to proactively identify long term risk mitigations and opportunity strategies

Pay

Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.

Schedule

Not specified