Medical Advisor Neurology

• Location: Reading
• Job type: Permanent

About the job

The Neurology medical advisor provides proactive strategic leadership co-creating the overall brand strategy to ensure appropriate use of Sanofi medicines in the UK and Ireland. 

We are an innovative global healthcare company, committed to transforming the lives of people with immune challenges, rare diseases and blood disorders, cancers, and neurological disorders. From R&D to sales, our talented teams work together, revolutionizing treatment, continually improving products, understanding unmet needs, and connecting communities. We chase the miracles of science every single day, pursuing progress to make a real impact on millions of patients around the world.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Utilise strong business acumen, and acting as a key strategic business partner to the organisation
• Initiate and drive projects to raise standards of care
• Lead and drive rapid integrated evidence planning and execution through deep understanding of internal and external stakeholder evidence needs and robust data gaps analysis
• Deep therapy area expertise and product knowledge including competitor data
• Drive strong collaborative relationships with commercial and non-commercial functions including marketing, value & access, health economics, regulatory and clinical teams
• Cultivate and maintain relationships with top clinicians
• Drive collaborative relationships with above-country colleagues to ensure UK involvement and strategic input into global and regional plans
• General understanding of impact of evolution of healthcare systems through ICS transformation
• Lead creation of implementation science plans
• Ability to rapidly assimilate new data and integrate into new therapy areas

About you

• Proactive enterprise leadership acting as a role model for medical affairs
• Qualifications; Healthcare professional (including medical, pharmacy or nursing) or BSc/Phd in biological/medical science
• Industry experience (including medical affairs field or office) and/or clinical experience mandatory
• Strategic knowledge of the ABPI code beyond copy approval mandatory. Final signatory desirable
• Working knowledge of UK Healthcare System’s and external stakeholder management
• Good understanding of the continuum of data generation including clinical development, RWE and data gaps analysis
• Thorough understanding of drug approval process and reimbursement (MHRA, NICE, SMC etc.)
• Ability to act independently with a solutions-oriented and balanced approach to the grey areas
• Excellent communication skills including driving challenging discussions

Pursue progress. Discover extraordinary.

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

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Visas for those who do not already have the right to work in the UK will be considered on a case by case basis according to business needs and resources.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and committed to offering an interview to candidates who request to be considered under the Scheme and meet the minimum requirements required for this role.

If you consider yourself to have a disability and would like to ask for adjustments to be made at interviews, please email diversity.recruitmentUKIE@sanofi.com so we can make arrangements for you.

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