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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

The coding specialist ensures coding of medical events and medications using regulated dictionaries and in compliance with international rules. He/she is fully aware of the dictionaries structure and updates and their related impacts on terms classification. He/she validates the coding, with input from Clinical Research Director (CRD), taking into consideration medical aspects such as the compound mechanism of action, the study population or any specificity as defined in the study protocol. He/she can provide input on CRF design. He/she, in collaboration with case medical safety evaluator (CMSE), ensures that SAE are reported and coded in a consistent way within both clinical and GPV database. He/she can detect and alert the CRD for unexpected medical events. The coding specialist can be dedicated to one therapeutic area (Oncology, Diabetes, …).

Main Responsibilities:

-Coding referent for study (ies) he/she is allocated to, primary contact for coding concerns.

-Accountable for the coding of events and drugs (in compliance with ICH guidelines for events), ensure ongoing coding of studies including query generation for ambiguous medical terms.

-Ensure coding accuracy and consistency review, for self or pairs.

-Medical validation of adverse event reporting with CRD.

-Ensure coding reconciliation of SAE with GPV.

-Help in appropriate documentation and investigations of safety cases in collaboration with GPV, identify reporting issues and provide solutions.

-Provide input on protocol particularly for exclusion criteria related to coded data.

-Provide input and help in CRF design (pre-printed events, medication categories, etc…).

-Review study documentation (CMP,DMP, …) for coding related elements.

-Propose coding related edit checks to Data Manager.

-Attendance to study team meetings and explanation or training to study team members when appropriate.

Required Knowledge And Skills:

- Ability to communicate and work within a global team

- Ability to understand and process several levels of information for multiple projects

- Knowledge in ICH, GCP

- Good command of the English language

- Working knowledge of various coding systems and related third party tools, familiar with auto-encoding algorithms

Required Education/Experience:

- Physician, Pharmacist, Nurse or paramedical professional with minimally a Bachelor Sciences.

- Previous experience in coding and coding dictionaries in one or several Therapeutic Area, preferably MedDRA, WHODD 5 years +

- Previous experience in Clinical Research and/or Drug Development 5 years +

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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.

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