Global Talent Skills Lead

• Location: Netherlands Spain France Hungary India
• Job type: Permanent Full time
• Hybrid working model- at least 3 days per week onsite

About the job

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 Acquisitionis 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 Sanofis 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

• Bachelors or masters 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 its 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.
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• 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

Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.

Progress doesnt happen without people people from different backgrounds in different locations doing different roles all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. You can be one of those people. Chasing change embracing new ideas and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Lets pursue progress. And lets discover extraordinary together.

At Sanofi we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability or gender identity.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer committed to offering interviews to candidates who request consideration under the Scheme and meet the minimum requirements for this role.

If you have a disability and require adjustments for the interview process please email us at We are dedicated to ensuring an inclusive and supportive experience for all applicants.

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Pursue progress discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications better outcomes better science. But progress doesnt 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 lets 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 and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at !