Hub Lead - Global Meetings & Events

Location: Bogotá, Colombia

About the job

Our Hubs are a crucial part of how we innovate, improving performance across every Sanofi department and providing a springboard for the amazing work we do. Build a career and you can be part of transforming our business while helping to change millions of lives. Ready? As Hub Lead - Global Meetings & Events within our Global Meeting & Events team, you’ll lead high-performing teams delivering compliant, efficient, and scalable event operations across GBUs and regions. You’ll play a key role in driving process excellence, stakeholder engagement, and team development, ensuring our event and engagement operations are not only well-executed, but aligned with Sanofi’s broader mission of innovation and impact.

Main responsibilities:

The Hub Lead for Global Meetings & Events (GM&E) will be responsible for providing strategic direction, operational oversight, and people leadership across a regional hub. The role ensures effective delivery of event operations (events management, engagement such HCP contracting, payments, compliance, and execution) across GBUs and therapy areas while driving efficiencies, innovation, and stakeholder satisfaction.

Lead and develop a multi-layered team of Event & Engagement Specialists/Analysts/Hub Managers, ensuring accountability for performance, service quality, and compliance.
Foster a culture of collaboration, engagement, and continuous learning through cross-training, upskilling initiatives, and regular feedback.
Oversee day-to-day planning and delivery of internal and external events and engagements, ensuring effective resource allocation, operational execution, and alignment with global standards.
Act as the strategic escalation point for complex or sensitive issues, ensuring timely resolution and communication across stakeholders.
Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, internal policies, and FMV principles; guide teams and stakeholders in navigating evolving compliance expectations.
Collaborate closely with in-country Heads, Leads and cross-functional partners (Procurement, Finance, Legal, Compliance) to resolve escalations, drive alignment, and support business continuity.
Drive simplification and operational excellence through process optimization, tool implementation, and the adoption of global platforms and digital technologies.
Identify opportunities to internalize transition activities currently managed by vendors, ensuring sustainable integration and knowledge transfer.
Monitor project timelines and KPIs, track performance, and proactively implement corrective actions to meet delivery expectations.
Promote sharing of best practices and innovation across regions and hubs, contributing to the global GM&E transformation roadmap.
Identify operational risks, emerging business needs, and improvement opportunities; propose scalable, forward-looking solutions to address them.
Develop and maintain governance frameworks, reporting standards, and documentation to enable data-driven decision-making and operational transparency.

About you

Experience: Previous experience in event management and proven experience leading teams is essential. Background in the pharmaceutical sector is a plus.
Soft skills: Team leadership, stakeholder management, change driver and strong negotiation skills.
Technical skills: Proficiency in MS Office Suite and project management tools. Knowledge of event technologies and digital platforms is a plus (One CRM, CVENT, SPOTMe).
Languages: Advanced English level.

Why choose us?

Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
You’ll be part of leading the first experiences a job seeker has with Sanofi and ensuring it is best-in-class and driving conversions.
You’ll be part of a truly diverse cross-cultural team and can have real business impact.
Flexible working policies, including up to 50% remote work.
Private medical care, life and health insurance, and gender-neutral paid parental leave
Colombia is one of Sanofi’s key locations for new talents, having a big footprint with the Bogota HUB and its best-in-class operation.
Mexico and Argentina Play an instrumental part in creating best practice and innovation within our 3 vaccines production plants.

Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.

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. You can be one of those people. Chasing change, embracing new ideas and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Let’s pursue progress. And let’s 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.

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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.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!