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R&D - CSO - Medical Writer - CD

Chengdu, China
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Bring your curiosity to a team where deep immunoscience meets cutting-edge innovation. Across oncology, rare diseases, neurology, and vaccines, you’ll work at the intersection of lab science and AI-powered discovery — all while collaborating across boundaries to turn breakthrough ideas into real-world impact. Whether you want to deepen your scientific expertise or grow as a leader, you’ll find the opportunity here.

We are an innovative global healthcare company, committed to transforming the lives of people with immune challenges, rare diseases and blood disorders, cancers, and neurological disorders. From R&D to sales, our talented teams work together, revolutionizing treatment, continually improving products, understanding unmet needs, and connecting communities. We chase the miracles of science every single day, pursuing progress to make a real impact on millions of patients around the world.

About us

At Sanofi, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. All our decisions are taken with our most important stakeholder in mind – the patients.

Having a rich history of innovation that dates back over 100 years, Sanofi more than ever stays true to its commitment to transform the practice of medicine by providing potentially life-changing treatments and the protection of life-saving vaccines to millions of people. This history includes the first treatments for many rare diseases and the establishment of standards of care in diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Sanofi’s commitment to public health has helped protect hundreds of millions of people from influenza every year for decades and pushed polio to the brink of eradication, while its scientific vision has led to breakthrough innovations in the treatment of inflammatory diseases.

~ 43.07Bn€ Net Sales FY23

~ 90 countries

~ 91K employees

~ 59 manufacturing sites

~ 20 R&D sites

About the job

Our Team:

Medical writing in Sanofi is regulatory medical writing which is used to advance a drug, device, or biologic from clinical studies through regulatory agency approval. China medical writing team is part of global medical writing team, we support the clinical document preparation for both China and global submissions. Our goal is to deliver the documents on time, with good quality and per transparency requirements. Our mission is to lead our activities with innovation and quality to make clinical trial information and drugs available to patient as quickly as possible and contribute to Sanofi business growth.

Main responsibilities:

  • Writing, summarizing, editing, and reviewing documents, or sections of documents (eg, protocol, clinical study report, summary documents)
  • Ensuring architecture and content that concisely and effectively transmit strategic information
  • Coordinating the activities within the group, and those with interfaces in Platform, other Units, or external collaborators, to ensure timely completion of deliverables
  • Defining and proposing best timelines for the group deliverables, in collaboration with authoring or submission teams
  • Defining and requesting quality control for the group deliverables

About you

  • Experience: A 2-4 years’ experience in pharmaceutical industry or publications in the international journals as the first author would be an asset.
  • Soft skills: Ability to communicate clinical data succinctly, clearly and accurately in writing. Proactive, accountable, details oriented. Interpersonal communication skill and a good team player and good planner.
  • Technical skills: Professional background suggesting the ability to clearly, accurately, and concisely prepare all types of simple documentation in both English and Chinese, e.g. scientific authorship experience, editorial experience, etc.
  • Education: A candidate with a scientific degree, preferably PhD, majoring in medicine, pharmacy, or life science related disciplines.
  • Languages: Proven level of excellent spoken and written English, including understanding of English language usage and also standardized writing styles.

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.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!

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Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.

Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science - where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what’s never-been-done-before. You’ll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people’s lives? Let’s Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary – together.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Watch 'One day at Sanofi' and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion initiatives at sanofi.com

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  • Expand your horizons. Grow through curiosity, with support to move, learn, and lead in a culture that champions mentorship, mobility, and bold development.

  • Accelerate results with technology. Harness the power of AI and automation to push scientific boundaries and reimagine what's possible in drug discovery.

  • Impact through inclusive innovation. Help deliver better science and fairer outcomes by driving inclusive research that reaches more people, in more meaningful ways.

  • Turn patient needs into breakthrough science. Drive scientific breakthroughs that start with patient needs – and end in treatments that change lives.

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Meet Nils Libert, an Associate Scientist in Belgium, where he plays a key role in advancing groundbreaking research. Learn how his work helps drive innovation, uncover new scientific possibilities, and contribute to life-changing treatments that impact patients around the world.

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