Real World Evidence Medical Lead, North America

Location: Bridgewater, NJ or Cambridge, MA

Our Medical function serves as a valued strategic partner with Clinical, Commercial, Regulatory, and Market Access on therapeutic solutions to support patients’ needs.  The Medical team is proud to support Sanofi’s deep commitment to chasing the miracles of science to improve the lives of patients. 

We are an innovative global healthcare company with a focus on immunology that extends to innovation in diabetes and transplant medicine. Across different countries, our talented teams are determined to deliver a best-in-class customer experience using the best of digital, artificial intelligence and personal know-how. With a focus on immunology that extends to innovation in diabetes and transplant medicines, we pursue progress to make a real impact on millions of patients around the world.

Main Responsibilities: 

• As a member of the NA Medical Team and contributor to the medical evidence generation community, the RWE Medical Lead builds on training and experience in health sciences and epidemiology research, public health, and regulations to ensure that relevant medical evidence is available and strategically used to support the development and launch of key products (teplizumab and belumosudil) throughout the entire lifecycle, in the designated TA scope.

• Be the local medical RWE expert and central connection with global RWE experts to ensure excellence in execution on brand RWE strategies, especially for pre-launch periods and launch brands, data strategies and RWE transformational initiatives. 

• Develop and implement strategies for the identification, collection, evaluation and analysis of real-world data (RWD) sources in NA, to support various research initiatives and business objectives at NA level, aligned with global brand and RWE strategies.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with internal stakeholders including clinical research units, medical affairs, market access, and commercial teams to identify research questions and generate evidence-based insights.

• Design and oversee observational studies, registries, and other real-world evidence-generating activities, including retrospective analysis of existing databases, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and ethical standards.

• Identify and evaluate local data gaps and opportunities in partnership with the global RW Data Strategy & Partnership Lead and Evidence Strategy Leads, that is fit-for-purpose to identified evidence gaps from brand IEGPs and the RWE data strategy. 

• Manage relationships with external vendors, including contract research organizations (CROs), data providers, and academic institutions, to facilitate data acquisition, processing and analysis.

About you 

Experience:

• End-to-end leadership of RWE studies from concept to study completion and publication for regulatory or reimbursement submissions

• Analysis of data needs and/or data sources for a disease area or pharmaceutical product

• Proven experience in the field of clinical/epidemiology/public health with expertise in developing epidemiological studies

• Demonstrated experience in strategic evidence generation 

• Significant peer-reviewed publication track record in epidemiology, clinical and statistical and/or HEOR journals required

• Experience working in multiple therapeutic areas: transplant, type 1/2 diabetes or cardiovascular, Immunology, Rare Diseases and/or Hematology highly preferred.

Soft and Technical skills:

• Ability to effectively cooperate cross-functionally as strong team player

• Expert knowledge in RWE, pharmaco-epidemiology, health outcomes research or data science

• Ability to build an evidence strategy from business needs and translate into study requirements

• Collaborative, able to manage stakeholder relationships at global level

Education:

• Advanced degree in life sciences, epidemiology, biostatistics, data science or equivalent

• Formal education in business or management is ideal

Languages:

• English

Why choose us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.

• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally. Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.

• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.

Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary. 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. You can be one of those people. Chasing change, embracing new ideas and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Let’s pursue progress. And let’s discover extraordinary together.

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