Sanofi is a leading global healthcare company going through a significant transformation. We are on a journey to attract and develop top diverse talent to join our mission to bring innovation to more and more patients around the world.
The Skills Intelligence Lead for Talent Acquisition is a strategic role focused on embedding skills-based practices into the end-to-end hiring process. You will lead the design and deployment of skills intelligence to enhance sourcing strategies, improve candidate-job matching, and support data-driven hiring decisions. This role is critical in helping the organization attract and hire talent aligned with current and future business needs.
Main responsibilities:
Skills-Based Sourcing & Skills Market Intelligence
- Design, deploy and improve ways of working for Talent teams against Sanofi s skills framework. Ensuring discipline and reliance when recruiters and sourcers create/use talent pools during proactive and reactive sourcing use cases.
- Share the key employee skills insights identified by GBU/GFs to Talent Acquisition Operations and Talent Intelligence teams to partner for a future workforce strategy.
- Partner with employer branding to position the organisation effectively in skills-scarce markets.
Job Architecture & Skills Taxonomy Alignment
- Collaborate with Talent Acquisition and strategic workforce planning teams to ensure jobs reflect critical and emerging skills.
- Maintain alignment between job roles and a standardized skills taxonomy to support consistent hiring practices.
- Support the development of skills-based job templates and interview guides.
Candidate Matching & Screening Optimization
- Leverage AI tools and platforms to enhance candidate-job matching based on skills profiles.
- Partner with TA operations to integrate skills intelligence practices into ATS and CRM systems (Workday, Beamery, etc.).
- Recommend improvements to screening criteria to reduce bias and improve quality of hire.
- Participate to Sanofi implementation of future external candidates assessment capabilities (practices, providers, technologies) to ensure a skills first approach is taken.
Hiring Strategy & Workforce Planning Support
- Educate hiring managers and recruiters with skills-based talent insights and narrative to inform requisition planning.
- Identify future skill needs based on business growth and transformation initiatives and inform the Talent Acquisition communities.
- Contribute to strategic workforce planning by highlighting critical skill gaps and talent risks.
Metrics, Reporting & Continuous Improvement
- Close collaborate with People Insights to develop dashboards and reports to track skills-based hiring metrics (e.g., time-to-fill by skill, skill match rate).
- Monitor the effectiveness of skills-based sourcing and selection strategies.
- Continuously refine skills intelligence practices based on feedback and evolving business needs.
About you
- Bachelor s or master s degree in HR, Business, Data Analytics, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in talent acquisition, workforce analytics, or HR technology.
- Strong understanding of skills taxonomies (e.g., ESCO, O*NET) and labor market data sources.
- Experience with ATS/CRM (e.g. Workday, Beamery) systems and skills intelligence platforms (e.g. SkyHive).
- Proficiency in data analysis and visualization tools (e.g., Excel, Power BI, Tableau).
Why choose us?
- At Sanofi, we believe in continuous learning and development. We encourage innovative thinking and welcome fresh ideas for process improvements and system optimizations.
- An international work environment, in which you can develop your talent and realize ideas and innovations within a competent team
- An individual and well-structured introduction and training when you onboard
- You can create your own career path within Sanofi. Your professional and personal development will be supported purposefully
- As a globally successful and constantly growing company, Sanofi provides international career paths as well
- We offer a dynamic work environment where your contributions will have a direct impact.
- 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.
- Drive implementation science, powerful crowdsourcing and open innovation, discovering the ways to bring science to live faster, contributing to a patient first mindset
- 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
