Global Lead - MRCI Research Library

• Location: Barcelona – Sanofi Business Services

At Sanofi, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.  We believe our cutting-edge science and manufacturing, fueled by data and digital technologies, have the potential to transform the practice of medicine, turning the impossible into possible for millions of people.

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 Global Lead - MRCI Research Library within our GTMC organization, you’ll help us to drive best-in-class capabilities across the board and bring value and excellence in our commercial operations.

The aimed modernization of Sanofi will allow us to focus on our priorities across our products, market and pipeline through the reallocation of resources and realizing the efficiencies of removing silos that exist between our business units, avoiding the duplication and overlapping of resources, standardizing our processes and tools, operating with a One Sanofi approach to accelerate our key capabilities development, and fostering the entrepreneurial spirit by speeding up the decision making.

Currently, Sanofi has the most robust pipeline and forthcoming product launches in the company’s history. The GTMC organization is charged with delivering best-in-class capabilities to bring speed and increased value to commercial operations. It will refine priorities across products, markets, and the pipeline through dynamic resources allocation and efficiencies. Silos between business units and duplicative and overlapping resources will be replaced with standardized processes and tools. Operating with a One Sanofi mindset and entrepreneurial spirit, GTMC will accelerate and improve key capabilities to do more with less and facilitate the best-informed strategic decision making across the organization.

GTMC relies heavily on our hubs for support. 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.

The GTMC organization aims to:

• Centralize Go-to-Market operational tasks across GBUs

• Standardize best in class capabilities, strengthen global support, and implement a better vertical reporting structure within GTMC from local to global

• Define ways of working, bringing clarity on the interactions across GBUs, Digital, and Commercial executional support teams from Sanofi hubs to optimize process excellence and efficiency

Global Lead - MRCI Research Library, will be responsible for supporting strategic secondary insight gathering, establishing best practice and leading the overall direction of the MRCI Research Library and its support to the organization.

Responsibilities:

Key Responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Lead Research Library activities by providing support of clients
• Be the subject matter expert on all resources across the library
• Levarage an optimized approach to business support, by meeting and exceeding business needs
• Provide comprehensive support to address key business questions posed to the MRCI library, in a timely and efficient manner
• Research critical business questions across a broad range of disease areas and development phases; deliver accurate high-quality research results, including competitor and market overviews, drug pipeline landscapes and diseases assessments
• Provide high-level of research and insights in support of business go/no-go decisions
• Demonstrate a high-level of confidence in research while operating autonomously
• Collaborate with leadership and clients in Insights and Analytics  group to identify research needs and provide relevant intelligence
• Identify opportunities in new areas of research support by monitoring therapeutic areas and industry developments
• Lead Research Library efforts in providing industry news and developments important to Sanofi and produce  internal newsletters
• Be an integral member of the Research Library team to establish and share best practices and work to continuously improve research processes
• Leverage AI tools to share and maintain resources
• Utilize project management database to manage and record workload
• Evaluate information resources using subject matter expertise expert knowledge of value to the company’s research needs

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree Required
• Minimum of 7 years in an information research setting
• Deep knowledge of industry and multiple disease areas
• Comfortable working in a matrix organisation
• Proactive in nature, actively participates and self-motivated

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA/MPH/Master Degree in Library  & Information Science
• 10+ years in a pharmaceutical or life sciences, corporate environment

Skills and Competencies:

• Experience with vendor-side CI firm and/or consulting firm strongly preferred
• Product launch experience strongly preferred
• Experience in adjacent functions (NPP, marketing, value & access) a plus
• Demonstrated ability to drive to deadlines, balance competing priorities, and ensure high quality
• Effectively influence in a highly matrixed environment
• Effectively and confidently communicate to various audiences, including senior leadership
• Synthesize complex ideas to simple
• Focused on implications and pull through into brand implications (not just a summary of the “what”)
• Strong learning agility and high degree of curiosity
• Strong focus on detail, accuracy, and ability to solve problems through analytical reasoning
• Strong work ethic and personal motivation
• Ability to think strategically in an ambiguous environment

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