From survival jobs to senior roles in US: How Chemutai made bold career moves across three countries

Nelly Chemutai, 33, Senior Quality Assurance Specialist Research and Development at Sanofi Pharmaceutical, in Antarctica, December 2025.

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When Nelly Chemutai began her career in Kenya, nothing substantial had prepared her for the global nomadism or the senior roles she has held at international biotechnology companies in Boston, Massachusetts, in the US.

But one memory has never left her. She remembers her father urging her and her siblings to imagine their lives beyond the familiar hills of Nandi, to see themselves not as bound by geography, but as citizens of a much wider world.

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