R&D
Where your curiosity drives the
miracles of
science
R&D Competitive Intelligence Specialist
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.
About the job
Our Hubs are a crucial part of how we innovate, improving performance across every Sanofi department and providing a springboard for the amazing work we do. Build a career and you can be part of transforming our business while helping to change millions of lives. Ready? As a Clinical Competitive Intelligence Specialist within Early Operations Strategy, you’ll locate, analyze, and interpret data from various sources to support the project team decision making and planning.
We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?
Main responsibilities:
Work closely with Global Feasibility Lead (GFL), Sanofi physicians, as well as clinical project teams to support strategies for clinical studies.
Bring a deep understanding of scientific data (e.g., real world data, epidemiology data, scientific articles, etc.)
Support data integration with feasibility vendors to assist in site identification and enrollment modeling.
Determine the appropriate data source according to the question being asked and build query strategy to answer the question.
Build electronic health record (eHR) query to support protocol design and feasibility process.
Provide insights as to data quality/availability and feasibility of specific use cases to stakeholders and assess the reliability of methods used
About you
Experience: Experience working as a scientist/data scientist in healthcare, clinical research, pharmaceutical R&D, or similar research environment.
Experience in clinical development.
Experience working with diverse data types and sources (e.g., clinical study data, electronic health record data, disease/patient registry data, claims data, etc.).Soft skills: Ability to understand and communicate complicated data and change effectively.
Education: A Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Pharmacy, Biology, or Biostatistics with a substantial quantitative and computational component.
Language: Fluent in 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.
As a part of the Global Clinical Study Unit, the Early Operations Strategy Team prepares the Clinical Study Units successfully launch clinical trials to offer options to patients in need.
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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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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EVP & Head of R&D
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