Workday Digital Product Owner - Time

About the role

As a Workday Digital Product Owner - Time within our Digital People Services team, you'll drive the end-to-end digital product lifecycle of Time Tracking solutions across Sanofi's global footprint, ensuring reliable, compliant platforms that directly impact tens of thousands of employees worldwide. Ready to get started?

You'll join Sanofi's Digital Delivery & Operations unit, a key enabler of our People & Culture strategy. Operating within a portfolio-based model, you'll manage diverse solutions including Workday Time Tracking and a number of regional and local systems. This role sits at the critical intersection of HR operations and digital technology, where accurate time tracking and compliant absence management express our commitment to our people and legal obligations across complex, multi-country environments.

About Sanofi 

Sanofi is a global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to supporting people through their health challenges, committed to chasing the miracles of science to improve people's lives. Our team across some 100 countries transforms the practice of medicine — providing life-changing treatments and life-saving vaccines to millions globally, with sustainability and social responsibility at the center of our ambitions. Our values — Aim Higher, Act for Patients, Be Bold, and Lead Together — guide everything we do. 

Main responsibilities:

• Own product decisions for Time Tracking applications, including budget planning, service requests, and management across the global portfolio

• Configure and maintain the Workday Time Tracking module hands-on, including building time templates, managing time calculations and creating advanced calculated fields. Knowledge of payroll earning/deductions breakdowns for multiple countries is a big plus

• Manage stakeholder relationships as primary contact between HR, Legal, Payroll, and Digital teams, ensuring clear communication and effective prioritization

• Oversee vendor partnerships with third-party time and attendance providers, managing SLAs, performance reviews, and contract negotiations

• Ensure compliance with local working time legislation, labor laws, collective agreements, and data privacy requirements (including GDPR) across all supported countries

• Lead change management for system upgrades, regulatory changes, and process transformations, including release notes, testing coordination, and adoption monitoring

• Drive operational excellence through incident management, performance monitoring, and continuous improvement initiatives across integrated HR platforms

About you

• Experience: Proven background in HR technology, time and attendance systems, or digital product management in multinational environments, with demonstrated experience managing Time Tracking solutions at regional or global scale

• WD Pro certification: Workday Time Tracking certification (and its prerequisite, Core HCM certification) - this is an essential requirement. Noncertified candidates that can demonstrate significant years of experience strictly in the WD Time Tracking field will be considered. Candidates with General HCM experience and only occasional Time Tracking configuration work will be discarded
• Technical expertise: At least 1 full-cycle Time Tracking implementation project where the candidate served as an independent configuration consultant/subject matter expert. Strong knowledge of Workday HCM integrations and understanding of time-to-payroll data flows, across multiple countries if possible
• Configuration skills: At least one year of hands-on experience as Tier 3 (L3) Support specifically within the Workday Time Tracking domain

• Stakeholder management: Ability to engage and influence diverse stakeholders across HR, Legal, Finance, and IT in matrix organizations, with experience managing third-party vendors and SLAs

• Compliance knowledge: Familiarity with multi-country working time complexity, including local directives, shift regulations, collective agreements, and data privacy frameworks

• Product management skills: Experience with Agile methodologies, backlog management, and end-to-end product lifecycle oversight

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Information Systems, or Business Administration. Workday Core HCM Admin and Time Tracking certifications required

• Languages: Strong English communication skills for global collaboration. Working French language is a bonus.

Why choose us?

• Global impact: Shape Time & Attendance solutions affecting tens of thousands of Sanofi employees worldwide, directly contributing to our mission of chasing the miracles of science

• Strategic visibility: Work at the heart of Sanofi's People & Culture Digital transformation with exposure to senior leadership and participation in key governance forums

• Career development: Access our global learning ecosystem, cross-functional exposure, and clear advancement pathways within Digital People Services and broader Digital Delivery organization

• Meaningful challenges: Tackle complex multi-country working time requirements using cutting-edge HR technology platforms to solve problems that genuinely matter

• Collaborative culture: Join a diverse, international team united by shared commitment to operational excellence and exceptional employee experience in a modern, hybrid working environment

Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.

Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science - where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what’s never-been-done-before. You’ll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people’s lives? Let’s Pursue Progress and 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, gender identity, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

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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.

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The salary range for this position is :€49.600,00 - €74.400,00

Final compensation will be determined based on demonstrated experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs.

About Us

We are an R&D driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and creating compelling growth. Our team is guided by one purpose: we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.

We want to build a healthier, more resilient world, and turn the impossible into the possible by discovering, developing, and delivering medicines and vaccines for millions of people around the world.

Discover more about us visiting www.sanofi.com or via our movie We are Sanofi

Why Sanofi

Start a career that makes a difference.

Reinvention is in our DNA. It’s what drove our evolution from a small French enterprise to one of the world’s leading biopharma companies. Whether it’s using AI to shorten drug-discovery times or building trust in healthcare, you could be helping our teams make life better for patients, partners, and communities.

This is where you grow your career. We open the door for you to explore new opportunities, push your limits, and connect with people who are driven by a shared purpose: we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.