Business Planning & Development Associate - VIE Contract

PLEASE NOTE that applications that are only submitted in French cannot be considered by our non-French speaking partners at Sanofi worldwide. Therefore, only applications that are submitted in English will be considered. Please make sure to apply with your personal email address.

About the job

AsBusiness Planning & Development Associate VIE within our New Product Planning and Launch team, you’ll be involved with advertising/creative agencies, local and regional Key Opinion Leaders, Patient Societies, Distributers, Health Authorities, Charities and Non-Profit Organization, and Payers.

You will also be included in the cross-functional collaboration with:

• Marketing and Launch Excellence
• Market Access & Gov. affairs
• Finance
• Pharmacovigilance, Quality and compliance
• Medical
• GTMC
• Supply Chain
• Communication

Join the team transforming care for people with immune challenges, rare diseases, cancers, and neurological conditions. In Specialty Care, you’ll help deliver breakthrough treatments that bring hope to patients with some of the highest unmet needs. Ready to get started?

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.

Main responsibilities:

• Implement and catalyze strategic projects that contributes to accelerating our new launches. 
• Lead, coordinate or support projects and initiatives for business growth and delivering on priorities within the next Gen immunology franchise.
• Collaborates with stakeholders by working transversally with the different franchises and cross functional team.
• Work transversally within the immunology franchise and be a key player in managing the work of multiple projects by maintaining the backlog, facilitating ceremonies, and making sure the teams are demonstrating true working practices.
• Champion Agile culture and simplification behaviors, promoting “new ways of working” and principles and practices both at the project level and in corresponding squads.
• Discovers insight and foresight using multiple sources including; direct customer contact, field visits, market research and trends analysis to gain a deeper understanding of patients, prescribers and payers within a competitive context.
• Ensure new product launches follow strictly launch excellence and governance practices.
• Responsible for oversight and compliant leadership of all customer-facing activities, patient support and professional relations.

About you

Experience:

• Commercial, Project Management, and experience working with Agile methodology would be a plus.
• Experienced in leading project teams involving different functions would be an asset. 

Soft and technical skills:

• Market understanding, competition and future trends, and good understanding of our value chain.
• Ability to take data-driven decisions based on customer needs and to manage relationships across various stakeholders. 
• High learning agility and ability to perform under pressure with multi-tasking skills.
• Pro-active with a sense of urgency, demonstrating leadership and effectiveness in a matrix organization.
• Professional analytical thinking and problem-solving approach.
• Project management skills and Planning capability.
• Strong presentation and general communication skills (written, verbal and listening), together with forecasting, planning and budgeting Skills.
• Enthusiasm for working in collaborative, cross-functional teams.

Education:

• Master’s degree preferably in Pharmacy, Medicine, Marketing or similar field.

Languages:

• Fluency in English.

Why choose us?

• Be part of a pioneering biopharma company where patient insights shape drug development.
• Work at the forefront of AI-powered science that accelerates discovery and improves outcomes.
• Collaborate beyond your expertise, sparking new ideas with diverse, multidisciplinary teams.