Senior Medical Product Lead - Alliance Immunology

Job title: Senior Medical Product Lead - Alliance Immunology

Location: Cambridge, MA; Morristown, NJ

About the job

Join the engine of Sanofi’s mission — where deep immunoscience meets bold, AI-powered research. In R&D, you’ll drive breakthroughs that could turn the impossible into possible for millions. 

The Medical Program Management Teams lies within the Medical Operations and Effectiveness function. Our Mission is to Partner with Medical Therapeutic Areas (TA) to Advance Medical Strategies from Planning to Execution through Global Program Management.  Our scope spans across all Specialty Care TA Medical teams and our focus is to strive to be a True Strategic Partner within our core value areas which are:

• Global Medical Brand Planning coordination and glocal alignment

• Medical Evidence Generation coordination and glocal alignment

• Financial Transparency

• Reporting

• Alliance management

Main responsibilities:

Provide Strategic Direction

• Partners with Global Medical TA Head to provide oversight and maintain the asset Medical strategy and integrated Medical and Evidence Generation plans in conjunction with overall commercial strategy, lifecycle management requirements, and evidence generation/publication needs.

• Proactively identifies resource requirements necessary to progress program development in alignment with the Medical and TA objectives.

• Drives franchise- wide clarity across Global Medical Teams and other relevant stakeholders to communicate asset strategic imperatives and ensure appropriate prioritization of activities and investments (for Medical CSS, ESR, and non-trial activities).

• Partners with Development, NPP and Commercial functions to forge Medical role in Early Development (N-5 to launch timeframe) for Sanofi key assets

• Ensures strategic direction of Immunology Medical is translated and implemented across all franchise-related alliances and helps to facilitate partnership in conjunction with and as an extension of the Global Medical TA Head and relevant Global Medical Directors

Drives Program Execution

• Identifies ways to optimize program execution without compromise to patients or compliance.

• Accountable to maintain the integrated Medical and Integrated Evidence Generation plans, ensuring delivery of critical path activities.Accountable to ensure timely and accurate updates to key information within reporting systems.

• Ensures Program Operational Excellence

• Manages franchise – wide oversight of the strategic global Medical Team forum to ensure progress of asset programsPartners with the Global Medical TA Head to provide financial oversight of the programs including trial and non-trial budgets. Includes consolidation, vetting and prioritization of MT spending to deliver critical path activities.Ensures asset strategy and integrated Medical plans have a patient-centric focus, incorporating innovative approaches that are meaningful to patients, HCPs, regulators & payers, and adhere to the highest standards of operational excellence in life cycle management.

Risk Management

• Proactively identify potential issues or obstacles and achieves resolution or plans contingencies.

• Responsible to ensure schedules and financial forecasts provided by work package owners are accurate and up-to-date, supporting aligned plans and efficient execution of the strategy.

• Follow issues through to resolution ensuring that all key stakeholders are informed of outcomes and program implications, providing clarity and direction in urgent or unexpected situations.Independently resolves complex issues and competing priorities that may impact achievement of goals, creates mitigation plans and drives to resolution.

Communication and Reporting

• Manages scheduled and ad-hoc program status reporting, citing progress to program goals/KPIs, proactively identifying risk with planned mitigation(s), and providing rationale for timeline and budget variances.Responsible for leading preparation efforts for governance engagement to support and drive asset objectives and deliverables.

• Participate in quarterly/annual portfolio analyses to communicate program development progress, opportunities, and risks to Medical Senior Management.Facilitates relevant communications to appropriate cross-regional, cross-functional, cross-divisional and Alliance partners (as appropriate).Other Accountabilities

• Ensures best practice and continuous improvement initiative sharing across NextGen Immunology team and across overall Medical Program Management team

• Provides direction and mentors junior colleagues and peers to work strategically and drive results; identifies opportunities for project managers to demonstrate their abilities; uses effective coaching techniques to refocus energy and address barriers to success; leads by example.

• May have responsibility for line management of project managers as well as contractors within the Global PM function.

About you:

Experience

• Education: Degree in a scientific discipline (e.g. BS, MS, PhD) or related degree with substantial project management and/or project leadership experience.  Business qualifications such as MBA or professional project management qualification such as PMP® of added benefit. 

Experience

• At least 10 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry in expanding roles in Medical or related field, including experience and understanding of the current pharmaceutical environment, with experience managing complex projects, ability to successfully bridge between different fields of expertise, and managing program risks and challenges (including scenario and contingency planning).

• At least 7 years experience multi-/cross functional team experience•       

• Strong knowledge of drug development process, regulatory and business requirements•       

• Advanced experience with managing alliance partnerships

Soft skills:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) for bridging across diverse, cross functional, multi-national, geographically dispersed teams​

• May have responsibility for line management of project managers as well as contractors within the Global PM functions

Language: English

Why Choose Us?  

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team. 

• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s 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. 

• 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. 

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity employers committed to a culturally inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

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All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.