Lead Medical Expert, Business Operations

• Location: Barcelona, Spain

Our Team

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:

Community - Building a vibrant team that will attract and engage talent, with four global hubs. Excellence - Simplifying, standardizing and continuously improving processes to capture synergies, scale effects and productivity improvements. Digitalization - Enabling transparency, data-driven decision-making support, agility and rapid innovation across Sanofi's entire value chain.

About the job

The Lead Medical Expert role seated in the Medical Business Operations will be a pivotal role supporting the global & local teams for the entire portfolio, via innovation, content development, literature review and insights preparation, and operational execution, and cross-functional collaboration within Medical and Communication Business Operations. The ideal candidate will have a robust background in therapeutic area knowledge, strong leadership skills, and a commitment to advancing medical knowledge and patient care.

Main responsibilities

• Provide internal medical and scientific expertise for medical affairs programs we execute in business operations

• Internal support for processes related to clinical trials and research initiatives

• Provide ongoing support to internal stakeholders

• Support local clinical development teams and clinical study units facilitating efficient participant enrolment

• Support the implementation of medical strategies

• Review and contribute to scientific communications

• Collaborate and review scientific content creation from Medical hubs to ensure scientific accuracy and elevate the impact of our scientific communications for launches

•  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 Business Operations Medical team  

• Collaborate with local medical and commercial teams in allocated markets

• Provide contributions and oversight to content development and lifecycle management by mapping and requesting the content needs following 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

Performance

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

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

Strategic Leadership

• Drive innovation in medical approaches, methodologies, and content to enhance team impact and efficiency

• Establish and maintain key performance indicators to measure team effectiveness and impact

Scientific Excellence

• Serve as senior scientific expert for Business Operations team members, providing guidance on complex medical and scientific matters

• Support on the implementation of frameworks for Integrated Evidence Generation Plans (IEGP), ensuring strategic alignment with brand objectives

• Ensure scientific and ethical integrity across all team activities

• Direct the development and execution of strategic publication plans to effectively disseminate key scientific findings according the Integrated Scientific Publication Plan coming from GBUs

• Establish governance processes for Business Operations content review, ensuring high-quality medical review of commercial content and compliance with regulatory requirements

• Lead and oversee content developed from medical tower transversally to ensure contribution to brand strategy

• Evaluation and decision-making process for compassionate use requests

Cross-functional Collaboration

• Build and maintain strategic relationships with global and local GBU teams across clinical development, commercial, regulatory, and field medical functions

• Collaborate with other functional heads to ensure integrated approaches to medical strategy and execution

People Management

• Maintain effective relationships with the end stakeholders (Medical, regulatory, pharmacovigilance, commercial and R&D community) within the disease area

• Interact effectively with stakeholders across all departments within BO

• Constantly assist the medical regulatory writing and scientific writing team in developing knowledge and sharing expertise

• Foster a culture of scientific excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement

Key Involvement in Decision-Making Process

• Strategic Planning – Support medical affairs strategies and priorities for the disease area

• Resource Allocation - Determine allocation of team resources to maximize impact

• Content Approval - Final approval authority for medical content within area of responsibility

• Team Development - Make decisions regarding Medical BO team structure, roles, and development plans

• Cross-functional Collaboration - Represent Medical BO when needed in key cross-functional decision forums

About you

Experience

• Minimum 8 years of experience in international pharmaceutical companies

• Demonstrated experience in medical affairs leadership roles at local and global level

• Proven track record in leading teams and managing people

• Experience in brand planning, evidence generation, content development, and medical communications

• Experience in building and maintaining expert relationships

Skills

• Demonstrated leadership capabilities with ability to inspire and develop teams

• Strategic thinking and decision-making skills

• Excellent interpersonal, communication, influencing, and networking skills

• Advanced stakeholder management abilities across multiple organizational levels

• Ability to navigate complex organizational structures and drive alignment

• Change management and organizational development expertise

• Advanced problem-solving and analytical skills

• Medical operational excellence, time, and risk management skills

• Strategic planning and execution capabilities

• Project and program management expertise

• Budget management and resource optimization abilities

• Excellent technical (medical) editing and writing skills

Education/Qualifications

• Medical Degree required

• Specialization in any disease area where Sanofi operates is a plus

• Additional business or management qualifications are a plus

Languages

• Excellent knowledge of English language (spoken and written)

• Additional languages beneficial based on regional responsibilities

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