MCO Market Insights and Competitive Intelligence Lead

About Sanofi:

We’re an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.

About the job

Key dimensions - Scope & Scale:

Our vision is to establish Sanofi-wide best practices and strategies that enable impactful business decisions through data-driven insights and analyses, benefiting both stakeholders and patients.

Market insights delivers critical insights on competitive dynamics and customer behaviors that drive strategic decision-making and identify growth opportunities. This pillar is dedicated to seamlessly integrating with the business to provide best-in-class actionable insights.

The Market Insights capability supports commercial and marketing performance by providing efficient, integrated, and comprehensive  Strategic Foresight to Stakeholders.

Deliver transformative Insights and Analytics, elevating processes and deliverables to be best-in-class, by implementing innovative tools and methodologies.

• Insights Business Partner: Act as consultant for MCO leaders, including Marketing Heads and Commercial Heads, promoting decision-making through the utilization of global reporting and specific local developments.

• Portfolio Strategies: Prioritize Biopharma and Vaccines portfolios, including Immunology, Rare Diseases, Onco-Hemato, Flu, RSV, and Brand Launches.

• Create a data acquisition strategy to support both analytics and operations

• Evaluate and inform Specialty Care’s GTM strategy creation with analytics and insights across Africa MCO

As a member of the Insights & Analytics team, the Insights specialist will:

• Partner with Finance, Marketing Heads, Transformation Head, and Commercial Sales to deliver actionable insights addressing cross-GBU needs and ad-hoc requirements not met by global reporting offerings.

• Collaborate with local Business Partners to develop a systematic framework for insights generation and action.

• Execute market research agenda in compliance with company policies, ensuring accurate data collection and analysis.

• Lead the deployment of global-to-local reporting offerings and provide data stewardship as the local champion.

• Collaborate with global teams to align local needs with global strategies.

• Assist Sanofi hubs in transitioning reporting and ad-hoc operations.

Main responsibilities:

• Leverage market insights provided by global GTMC as well as AI driven approach to derive local implications for Cross-GBU business needs.

• Initiate locally relevant Market Insights to keep up with the demand of +5 new launches per year, focusing primarily on Specialty Market

• Develop a comprehensive local market performance framework to support Marketing Heads' strategies with data-driven insights, including Medical Intelligence

• Market Research: Coordinate and execute the market research agenda in compliance with company policies and global strategy.

• Consolidate insights from local market studies/ reports; inform global team & local business team

• GLocal initiatives: Ensure the deployment of global-to-local offerings and promote organic adoption of global offerings.

• Ad-hoc Requirements: Evaluate and prioritize ad-hoc requirements (XGBU) from internal stakeholders in line with global Insights and Analytics strategy.

• Industry Trends: Stay updated on industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in BI and market research.

• Facilitate +5 year strategic planning/ forecasting exercises

About you

Education Background: Bachelor's degree in Administration, Marketing, or related to Data Science

Pharmaceutical Business Acumen: Deep understanding of the business domain, including industry trends, market dynamics, and key business drivers.

Work Experience:

• +7 years in Business Intelligence or Business Analytics roles.

• Multi country exposure

• Strong Marketing experience in the Pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical industry, special focus on Specialty Business

• Hands-on experience in Competitive Market Analysis including both descriptive and predictive techniques: Market Sizing, Segmentation, Market Performance, Primary research, Forecasting Analytics etc.

• Strong business partnering with flexibility to oscillate between Strategic and Operational Execution

Technical Skills and Competencies:

• Proficient in structured data manipulation, data analysis and consumption.

• Basic knowledge of data extraction from DWH (Snowflake) and visualization tools (Power BI).

• Strong mental agility and understanding of statistical methods

• Financial Proficiency: Interpretae and use financial figures to support business decisions.

• Desirable programming skills in Python for data analysis (Pandas, Numpy).

• Strong Business Acumen with the ability to deliver actionable insights to address business key questions.

• Strong communication skills for articulating data-driven narratives.

• Resilience and ability to work under ambiguous situations.

• Stakeholder management.

Take the Lead Values

• Aim Higher: Focus on what matters, set high standards and move with urgency, learning from setbacks as we go to achieve higher performance.

• Act for Patients: Never compromise on integrity, eliminate barriers and partner with others to go faster and further for patients.

• Be Bold: Take thoughtful risks, seize opportunities and think beyond what's possible to accelerate our science and drive compelling growth.

• Lead Together: Build trust and collaborate openly on our shared goals, celebrate collective wins and foster a sense of belonging.

Why choose us?

• Help shape the future of care for chronic and complex conditions like diabetes and cardiovascular disease - and make a real impact at scale, with medicines that reach over 100 million people each year.

• Lead a high-impact portfolio with bold ambitions and significant upcoming launches.

• Drive meaningful change in a streamlined, AI-powered organization that values smart, modern ways of working.

• Expand your leadership impact through cross-functional collaboration and international career paths.