Agility and Performance Coach – R&D Accelerator

Job Title: Agility & Performance Coach – R&D Accelerator —Location: Paris (Hybrid – 3 days per week onsite)

About the job: Our coaches sit at the heart of the Digital Accelerator’s mission—enabling teams and leaders to learn faster, adapt faster, and deliver value sooner. They are catalysts of change across Sanofi, including in complex scientific and digital R&D environments.

Why this role exists

At the R&D Digital Accelerator, you will contribute to coaching efforts that reduce time to learn, accelerate product and system improvements, and enable better decision‑making across teams and leadership—strengthening our R&D learning ecosystem and accelerating scientific innovation to patient impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Coach one or more R&D product teams, modeling strong Agile, Lean, and discovery practices.
• Contribute to shared coaching standards, practices, and ways of working within the Accelerator.
• Coach at the business/accelerator interface—help business stakeholders and product teams build a genuine partnership based on evidence, shared goals, and mutual accountability.
• Coach product owners toward genuine ownership—outcome framing, evidence‑based bets, assumption testing.
• Help POs develop the courage to say no without evidence and the discipline to validate before they build.
• Make the delivery system visible—flow boards, WIP policies, aging WIP reviews.
• Use flow and DORA metrics as coaching instruments, not reporting tools.
• Reduce batch size and increase delivery frequency—small, releasable increments over large, risky releases.
• Bring Lean thinking to the work: value stream mapping, constraint identification, waste removal—as habit, not training event.
• Observe real work (go to the Gemba) and build interventions from what you see.
• Help leaders adopt a go‑see, ask‑why, show‑respect posture.
• Navigate the regulatory and data integrity environment intelligently; design within the compliance requirements.
• Build coaching capability in others—make yourself progressively less necessary.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years in Agile, Lean, and/or product environments—coaching teams in the work, not above it.
• Demonstrated practice of flow metrics and DORA metrics as daily steering tools.
• Experience coaching continuous delivery: batch size reduction, faster feedback loops, quality built in.
• Lean practice: VSM, A3, PDCA in real engagements.
• Product ownership coaching as a core competency.
• Proven experience coaching at the business/stakeholder interface.
• Strong facilitation and mentoring capability.
• Experience in R&D, scientific, data, or regulated environments is desirable.
• Experience coaching in digital product contexts—product trios, UX collaboration, technical teams.
• Exposure to visual management practices: Obeya boards, performance panels, or similar.
• Emerging understanding of systems thinking.
• Fluent in English; French advantage.

Coaching Philosophy & Attributes

• Agnostic to frameworks—uses what works, explains why.
• Values evidence over opinions; experiments over assumptions.
• Comfortable coaching upward and outward—business stakeholders and leaders are part of the system.
• Patient to build lasting change, not quick slide fixes.
• Genuine curiosity about the domain.
• Act with integrity, compassion, and clarity.

Benefits

• Fixed salary over 12 months, supplemented by short‑term incentive and collective variable compensation based on group results.
• Health insurance, extended maternity/parental leave (18/14 weeks), enhanced support in case of illness, teleconsultation and second medical opinion.
• 31 days paid leave + RTT (depending on status), up to 2 days remote work per week.
• Public transport coverage up to 80%.
• Group savings plan, PERCOL with employer matching, and PERO.
• Professional development: internal and international mobility, learning and development opportunities.
• Other perks: platforms for peer‑to‑peer recognition, carpooling, home exchanges, CSE benefits.

Compensation

Salary range: €64,000.00 – €85,333. Final compensation will be determined based on demonstrated experience, skills, location, and other factors.

Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs.

EEO Statement

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.