Group Lead - Scientific Writing

Job title: Group Lead - Scientific Writing

Hiring Manager: Head – Scientific Engagement & Communication

Location: Hyderabad

% of travel expected: As per business need

Job type: Permanent and Full time

About the job

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.

Our Team

Sanofi Global Hub (SGH) is an internal Sanofi resource organization based in India and is setup to centralize processes and activities to support Specialty Care, Vaccines, General Medicines, CHC, CMO, and R&D, Data & Digital functions. SGH strives to be a strategic and functional partner for tactical deliveries to Medical, HEVA, and Commercial organizations in Sanofi, Globally.

Our critical success factors:

We have identified three key drivers:

1.Community - Building a vibrant team that will attract and engage talent, with four global hubs.

2.Excellence - Simplifying, standardizing and continuously improving processes to capture synergies, scale effects and productivity improvements.

3.Digitalisation - Enabling transparency, data-driven decision-making support, agility and rapid innovation across Sanofi's entire value chain.

Main responsibilities:

The overall purpose and main responsibilities are listed below:

To create synergies and provide functional and operational direction to one GBU operations across various therapeutic areas and processes so that cost savings up to 10 mil euros are achieved with deliveries optimized through multi-layered teams

People:

• Lead teams of writers (junior to Team Lead) in content creation/corresponding support team (content enhancement/copyediting)/operations team, including but not limited to project specialists (junior to Project Manager) or similar roles.
• Coach and develop Team Lead, expert and senior writers or similar roles (on content/methods/processes).
• Maintain effective relationship with the end stakeholders (medical scientific community) within the allocated TA(s)/GBU(s) and product – with an end objective to develop.
• Ensure new technologies are leveraged

Performance:

• Act as strategic thought partner to ≥1 therapeutic areas (TAs) within an assigned GBU;
• Develop and maintain expertise in ≥1 TA and on key trends/developments in the industry
• Provide inputs for publication and communication plan/publication and medical education materials/other strategic deliverables, and ensure delivery as per plan (agreed timelines and quality)
• Lead and support development of tools, technology, and processes in order to constantly improve quality and productivity undefined

Process:

• Support delivery of projects in terms of resourcing, quality, timeliness, efficiency, and high technical standards for deliveries made by the medical writing group, including scientific documents and clinical/medical reports.
• Contribute to overall quality enhancement by ensuring high scientific standards for the output produced by the scientific writing group
• Secure adherence to compliance procedures and internal/operational risk controls in accordance with any and all applicable regulatory standards
• Manage end-to-end process through PromoMats, iEnvision (previously-Datavision, and Matrix)
• Ensure all publication and medical education materials are delivered as per agreed timelines and quality
• Ensure creating and developing tools, technology, and process to constantly improve quality and productivity

Stakeholder: Maintain effective relationship with the end stakeholders (medical scientific community) with an end objective to develop education and communication content as per requirement. 

About you

Experience: 10+ years of experience in content creation for the pharmaceutical/healthcare industry, or academia; strong ability in managing a multi-layered team of ≥10 members; and ability to influence and negotiate

Soft skills: Stakeholder management; communication skills; people management; and ability to work independently and within a team environment

Technical skills: As applicable (including but not limited to therapeutic area/domain knowledge exposure – Proficient in multiple TAs/domains under one GBU; scientific communications/writing; medical communications/writing; publication planning; and/or project management)

Education: Advanced degree in life sciences/pharmacy/similar discipline or medical degree

Languages: Excellent knowledge of English language (spoken and written)

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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