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Health Value Translation Lead
Vitry-sur-Seine, France Salary Range EUR 89,200.00 - 118,933.33
At a glance
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.
Location: Gentilly, France
About the Job
Are you ready to shape the future of medicine? The race is on to speed up drug discovery and development to find answers for patients and caregivers. Your skills could be critical in helping our teams accelerate Progress.
Within Sanofi R&D, The Health Value Translation (HVT) Lead sits in the Patient Driven Medicines Development department.
HVT lead is responsible to represent, holistically, the department at the Global Project Team and is accountable for the disease related, patient integrated disease strategy (PDS) within and across assets addressing their assigned indications. The position ensures the PDS is fully integrated cross functionally at the global team, and facilitating the strategy to the local levels via the patient engagement lead team members, to maximize the opportunities and pipeline value recognition. Establishing strategic, mutually beneficial collaborations with Patient Advocacy, and other relevant patient organizations, is essential to ensure end to end R&D programs fully reflect patient relevant differentiation by addressing key data generation needs, are poised to accelerate time to market and build meaningful awareness and access enablers. Co-creation and co-identification, with patient community representatives and cross functional team members, of patient relevant value are at the core of the PDS.
Initiating the PDS during the pre-clinical stages enables Discovery Research teams to refine scientific innovation that aligns with the greatest unmet needs facing patient and healthcare communities. Aligning scientific priorities supports internal pipeline and portfolio decision making and establishes target product profiles, target value propositions and early target product label strategies to address the greatest areas of unmet need. In an end-to-end approach, comprehensive and novel value creation recognized by patient, healthcare, payer and societal stakeholders, along with deep understanding of benefit-risk and positioning against existing and emerging standards of care, is expected to drive meaningful differentiation, development acceleration as well as awareness and access to clinical trials, and future medical products.
As the department’s primary point of contact for the respective indications and programs, the HVT lead is accountable to ensure the PDS is integrated into the near-, mid- and long-term strategic plans of cross-functional team members. The HVT lead is also accountable to ensure the relevant team members from across PID&HVT are also integrated into various sub-teams and cross functional meetings. Additionally, integration of the local priorities from key markets (eg, HTA value drivers, alignment with standards of care) is a key responsibility of the HVT lead.
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:
Represent PID&HVT at the global project team ensuring that the relevant team members are effectively integrated across milestones, decision making forums and sub-teams
Develop and implement innovative Patient Disease Strategies starting in research that are carried across all development stages. This includes ensuring a deep understanding of patient experience data and where it drives value to the pipeline (eg, regulatory dossiers and discussions), patient care pathways/integrated patient journeys to identify how patients are diagnosed, treated and are best supported on treatments, establishing systematic patient informed evidence generation that is linked to the clinical trials, TVP/TPP/TPL and iEGPs. These elements, among others, are then meaningfully analyzed/translated and systematically integrated into key actions and implications within the PDS
Identify and integrate existing, or develop new, external engagement activities with relevant Patient Advocacy Groups in key countries in a manner that represents shared value creation
Build internal collaborations with cross functional development, regulatory, market access, medical, commercial, public affairs functions to fully integrate the PDS into global and local strategies that support differentiation, acceleration, access and awareness
Lead external partnerships initiatives that increase scientific innovation and improve R&D decision making
Lead innovative value development through systematic assessment of digital capacities and real world data to understand real world patients experiences
Contribute to the regulatory and payer submission dossiers
What we offer you
A fixed salary over 12 months, supplemented by a short-term incentive as well as a collective variable compensation based on Sanofi Group results.
Because taking care of our employees is also our mission:
• Benefits & Well-being: Quality health insurance, extended maternity/parental leave (18/14 weeks), enhanced support in case of illness, teleconsultation and second medical opinion covered by Sanofi, as well as many other wellness programs to discover here.
• Work-Life Balance: 31 days of paid leave + RTT depending on your status, remote work up to 2 days/week
• Transportation: Public transport coverage up to 80%
• Savings & Retirement: Group Savings Plan and PERCOL with employer matching, and PERO
• Professional Development: Internal and international mobility opportunities, learning & development opportunities
• And more: platforms dedicated to peer-to-peer recognition & service exchanges between Sanofi employees (carpooling, home exchanges, etc.), numerous CSE benefits...
About You
Key skills and competencies:
Ability to focus on impact and conceptualize bold innovative opportunities that drive value creation for the pipeline and patient communities
Excellent communication that has demonstrated effective collaborations with internal and external partners
Cross functional leadership skills, both strategic and hands on (implementation)
Analytics and problem-solving skills “think strategically”
Innovative/out-of-the-box thinker, able to simplify complex problems and lead trade off discussions
Team player, open, honest
Experienced in clinical development with a minimum of 5 years of experience in Pharma
Basic experience in Real World investigations, knowledge of patient preference research
Familiar with the Digital Tools, Large Language Models, Social Media Listening, etc
Understanding of payers’ environment in key markets
Understanding of evolving external patient, regulatory and payer landscape and its implications starting in the early clinical development evidentiary needs
Education:
Minimum Bachelor in Science or health related field (eg, public health) with minimum 10 years of drug development experience spanning preclinical to registration
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.
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.
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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
Final compensation will be determined based on demonstrated experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs.
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Why work with us
- 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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