Lead - Global Competitive Intelligence

• Location: Barcelona – Sanofi Business Services

About the job

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 Lead - Global Competitive Intelligencewithin 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.

GTMC organization aims for:

• Centralization of Go-to-Market excellence and operational tasks across GBUs
• Standardizing best in class capabilities with strengthened global support while verticalization of reporting within GTMC from local to global
• Defining clear ways of working and bringing clarity on interfaces with GBUs, Digital, and executional support on commercial operations from Sanofi hubs to optimize process excellence and efficiency

The Lead, Global Vaccine CI supports the Competitive Intelligence (CI) vision and strategy, in alignment with stakeholder priorities. This role works closely with disease area matrix teams (including leaders and teams in Commercial, R&D, Medical, & Market Access) to provide strategic support through the identification, analysis, and distribution of timely & relevant business and competitive intelligence and actionable insights that inform the near and long-term Global Vaccine franchise strategies.

Responsibilities:

Key Responsibilities include, but not limited to

• Evaluate competitor R&D, medical and commercial activities to help inform strategic decision making related to internal brand strategy and planning
• Legally and ethically gather competitive information and translate it into actionable insights and recommendations for key stakeholders
• Develop and deliver reports/communications that provide competitive insights and analysis of trends, issues, and opportunities
• Closely collaborate with other global, regional, and/or local functions (e.g., marketing, medical, market access, R&D, regulatory, legal, investor relations, NPP) to pressure test key assumptions and drive alignment
• Implements all elements of internal CI model based on consultative engagement with key stakeholders, leading internal intelligence networks, coordinating the communication of intelligence, managing external CI vendors/partners, and leveraging relevant internal IT tools and platforms
• Manage external vendor(s) to proactively maintain appropriate levels of market intelligence coverage
• Support Congress CI efforts and provide key competitive insights before, during and post congress
• Respond to ad hoc key business questions with expert analysis
• Rigorously apply the Company's standards of ethics and policies for intelligence gathering

Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree (MBA, MS, MD, PhD) preferred
  

Skills and Competencies

• 4+ years of relevant experience in biopharma industry (industry side or consulting)
• High degree of analytical horsepower
• Experience with a Vaccine’s focus strongly preferred
• 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

Soft skills

• 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