Job title: Medical Lead

• Location: Barcelona

• % of travel expected: Travel required as per business need, up to 60%

Our ambition: deliver best-in-class enterprise services enabling Sanofi to chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives. Sanofi has been building the foundations of enterprise services over the past few years. With the creation of the global business unit Business Operations two years ago, we have elevated our commitment to innovation and excellence.

An expert leadership team, passionate about leading high performance. We are building for the long term. We bring people together – many of them in our four hub locations around the world - which simplify processes, break down barriers and modernize the way we work in Sanofi.

Our critical success factors:

We have identified three key drivers:

1.      Community - Building a vibrant team that will attract and engage talent, with four global hubs.

2.      Excellence - Simplifying, standardizing and continuously improving processes to capture synergies, scale effects and productivity improvements.

3.      Digitalization - Enabling transparency, data-driven decision-making support, agility and rapid innovation across Sanofi's entire value chain.

About the Job

The Medical Lead Roles for Specialty Care or Vaccines or GenMed will focus on certain Therapeutic Areas (TAs) and are seated in the Medical Tower in Business Operations. They play a pivotal role supporting the global & local teams supporting the portfolio of a respective TA via driving strategic initiatives and innovation, content development, literature review and insights preparation, and strategic planning, operational execution, and cross-functional collaboration for Medical and Communication Operations. The ideal candidate will have a robust background and knowledge in the respective therapeutic area, strong leadership skills, and a commitment to advancing medical knowledge and patient care.

Main responsibilities:

·      Provide medical and scientific expertise for clinical development programs.

·      Be main medical point of contact for study sites in allocated markets.

·      Support for clinical trials and research initiatives.

·      Provide ongoing support to investigators for Sanofi studies, including site visits as necessary.

·      Work closely with local clinical development teams and clinical study units to establish unparalleled relationships with study sites, facilitating efficient participant enrolment.

·      Support the development and implementation of medical strategies.

·      Engage with key opinion leaders and healthcare professionals.

·      Review and contribute to scientific communications.

·      Collaborate and review scientific content creation from Medical hub to ensure scientific accuracy and elevating the impact of our scientific communications for launches.

·      Participate in medical education activities. Develop and execute plans to deliver medical education initiatives aligned with the global medical objectives.

·      Serve as a scientific center of expertise and point of contact for the allocated markets with limited Sanofi medical presence.

·      Collaborate with local medical and commercial teams in allocated markets.

·      Develop a robust advocacy program by organizing advisory boards and roundtables to build and reinforce product awareness, gather strategic insights, and foster relationships with key external stakeholders.

·      Provide contributions and oversight to content development and lifecycle management by mapping and requesting the content needs aligned with global franchise and country medical roadmaps.

·      To localize and customize medical content generated by global teams.

·      To ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, internal policies, and industry standards.

·      Collaborate cross-functionally with other groups across clinical development, commercial, regulatory, and field medical teams and provide clear medical guidance.

People:

1) Maintain effective relationships with the end stakeholders (Medical, regulatory, pharmacovigilance, commercial, clinical community) within the allocated franchise and product.

2) Interact effectively with stakeholders across all departments 3) Constantly assist the medical regulatory writing and scientific writing team in developing knowledge and sharing expertise.

4) Effectively engage with key external stakeholders and build long-term partnerships.

Performance:

1) Maintain and ensure compliance with regulatory guidelines and ensure timely and high-quality delivery of medical and scientific content.  

2) Strong analytical skills to assess information and emerging trends, including social, policy, and access-related information, and incorporate them into medical plans.

Stakeholders:

1) Work closely with stakeholders to have an oversight to all activities related to product Lifecyle management, and their alignment with global franchise and country medical roadmaps.

2) Excellent interpersonal, communication, influencing, and networking skills with the ability to work as part of a cross-functional and multicultural team.

About you

• Experience: ≥5 years of experience in international pharmaceutical companies, ≥2 years’ relevant experience in medical affairs, experience in brand planning, evidence generation, clinical research methodologies, and medical communications. Neurology experience is a plus.

• Soft skills: Excellent interpersonal, communication, influencing, and networking skills, Stakeholder management; superb communication skills; Strong interpersonal and networking abilities in a cross-functional, multicultural team and ability to work independently and within a team environment.

• Technical skills: Advanced problem-solving and analytical skills, Medical operational excellence, time, and risk management skills, Excellent technical (medical) editing and writing skills, Excellent planning and project management skills with the ability to work independently.

• Education: Advanced degree in life sciences or pharmaceutical sciences (MD [preferred], PhD, PharmD).

• Languages: Excellent knowledge of the English language (spoken and written).

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